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Akiva Sacknovitz Judah Diament, chair of the computer science department at Yeshiva College, is thrilled to announce the addition of Akiva Sacknovitz ’95YC, ’98R to the department’s faculty, starting in fall 2022. He will be replacing Dr. Van Kelly, who is retiring. Sacknovitz, currently a senior…

Makoto Fujimura | Yale University Press | 2021 Reviewed by Rabbi Dr. Stu Halpern In Art and Faith: A Theology of Making, artist and theologian Makoto Fujimura offers a moving meditation on what it means to create. Referring to God as the One True Artist, Fujimura often turns to the Bible in ...

The Zahava and Moshael Straus Center for Torah and Western Thought is proud to announce the incoming class of Straus Scholars who will form the sixth cohort of the Straus Scholars Program. Chosen from among Yeshiva University’s incoming class of undergraduate students in Stern College for Women and…

David Shifteh and Tzuriel Sapir from Dr. Radhashree Maitra’s laboratory attended the 115th Annual Meeting of American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) at New Orleans from April 8-13, 2022. Both students had the privilege of presenting their research data as posters. AACR is the oldest and ...

Hannah Aaron and Michael Stark By Anthony O’Hagan Sports Information Director YU Athletics The Yeshiva University Athletics Department held its annual awards dinner, inside the gym at Max Stern Athletic Center, on Wednesday, May 11, 2022. It was the first in-person awards ceremony since 2019 as the…

Cardozo News Professor Michael Pollack Appointed Associate Dean of Faculty Development Professor Kate Shaw Discusses SCOTUS and the Future of Roe v. Wade with The Boston Globe Professor Pamela Foohey Comments to Law360 on Student Loan Debt Maria F. Garcia-Syngros ’22C Named A 2022 Equal Justice ...

On Sunday, April 10, 2022, students from the Jay and Jeanie Schottenstein Honors Program went to see the new Broadway play, The Minutes, at Studio 54. Written by Tony- and Pulitzer Award winner Tracy Letts, and produced by the Steppenwolf Theatre Company, the play follows the inner workings of a ...

Leon Cooperman On Monday, April 4, 2022, the Jay and Jeanie Schottenstein Honors Program at Yeshiva College welcomed Leon Cooperman as a guest of its ongoing speaker series. Mr. Cooperman is the chairman and CEO of Omega Advisors, an investment advisory firm, and was formerly chairman and CEO of ...

New World Encounters is a class given by Dr. Ronnie Perelis, director of the Diasporas project at the Rabbi Arthur Schneier Program for International Affairs, for Honors students in the Jay and Jeanie Schottenstein Honors Program. The class has been investigating the first 100 years of European ...