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Rina Finkelstein ’22SB was one of 123 recipients this year of a scholarship from the Fashion Scholarship Fund (FSF), winning the award for a case study she did called MOD ern/est, a line of clothing she describes as “modern, modest workwear for easy versatility.” Here is how she describes her ...
Yeshiva University’s 91st Annual Commencement Ceremony will take place in person at Arthur Ashe Stadium at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center in Flushing Meadows-Corona Park in Queens, New York, on Thursday, May 26, at 1 p.m. ET. Nine students will receive the distinction of being ...
Parisian Views is an interdisciplinary humanities course offered by the English Department under the “Interpreting the Creative” (INTC) rubric. In this class, students learn about new approaches to art and literature from nineteenth-century Paris, when artists began to see the everyday life of…
By Rabbi Dr. Dov Lerner Straus Center Clinical Assistant Professor On Wednesday, April 13, the Zahava and Moshael Straus Center for Torah and Western Thought hosted Dr. Abraham Socher, professor emeritus of Jewish studies and religion at Oberlin College, editor of the Jewish Review of Books, and ...
On Sunday, May 8, 2022, from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m., the Yeshiva University Medical Ethics Society (MES) and Yeshiva University’s Center for the Jewish Future (CJF) presented the 15th Annual Medical Ethics Society Online Conference on the theme of “Torah U’Madda in the 21st Century: Highlighting Israel’…
By Dr. Rachel Mesch Professor of French & English Chair, Yeshiva College English Department After a two-year pandemic hiatus, the Parisian Views student photo exhibit had its grand re-opening on Wednesday May 11, at 4 p.m. in the Gottesman library. The class’s sixteen wonderful students from…
Yeshiva University has secured a $1 million federal grant to renovate Weissberg Commons, a central gathering place on YU’s Wilf Campus in the Washington Heights section of New York City. The grant is part of the $1.5 trillion U.S. government spending bill signed into law in March. As part of that…
By Wendy Kosakoff Public Services and Outreach Librarian Congratulations to our 2022 YU Student Library Research Award Winner Sammy Friedman ’23YC! Sammy is a psychology major. His paper, “ The Differing Effects of Narrative Transportation Across Animated and Live Action Movies,” was written as…
In 2018, Liesl Schwabe, director of the writing program at Yeshiva College, was awarded a Fulbright-Nehru Academic and Professional Excellence Fellowship, a seven-month grant that supported her as she taught several writing classes and conducted research at Presidency University in Kolkata, India.…
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