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Steve Beck After a two-year COVID hiatus, David Glaser, chair of the Department of Fine Arts and Music at Stern College for Women, was finally able to bring back the annual Marjorie Diener Blenden Artist-in-Residence concert with renowned pianist Steve Beck performing on Monday, May 2, at 7:30 p.m…

On April 6, 2022, eight students from the Sy Syms School of Business, currently taking the Fund Formation and Administration and Management course taught by Maccabee Ventures General Partners Moshe Bellows 90YC, ’08W and Bruce Taragin ’89YC presented their in-depth analysis and assessment of the ...

Yeshiva University’s first-ever STEM Exposition was held on Tuesday, April 26, 2022, in Weissberg Commons, thanks to the organizing talents of Tamar Leiser ’23S (with a major in physical sciences and a minor in math) and Temira Koenig ’24S (with a major in physics). The idea of this event was to ...

The Yeshiva University community, both national and international, came together on the evening of Wednesday, April 27, 2022, for the annual commemoration of Yom HaShoah. The audience gathered in the storied Nathan Lamport Auditorium in Zysman Hall on the Wilf campus was joined by hundreds online…

Cardozo News Professor Jessica Roth Comments to The Washington Post on Donald Trump Contempt Order Variety’s 2022 Legal Impact Report Names 8 Cardozo Alumni Professor Ekow Yankah Discusses, in the Times Union, Campaign Finance Reform Professor Edward Zelinsky Talks to Law360 About SCOTUS Decision…

David S. Reynolds | Penguin Books | 2021 Reviewed by Stu Halpern David S. Reynolds' Abe: Abraham Lincoln in His Times is a brilliant analysis of Lincoln's family, personality, and political positions within the context of his era. Reynolds, a professor in CUNY's Graduate Center, notes that while ...

Sarah Wapner Straus Center Impact and Recruitment Officer Straus Scholar Baruch-Lev Kelman graduated summa cum laude from Yeshiva University in 2021 with a degree in Jewish studies and architecture. Over the course of his undergraduate studies, Kelman served as the Glatt Research Associate at YU’s…

The Anatomy of Jewish Law: A Fresh Dissection of the Relationship Between Medicine, Medical History & Rabbinic Literature, jointly published by Koren Publishers Jerusalem under the Maggid Books imprint, Yeshiva University Press , and OU Press, is a novel and innovative work in which Rabbi Dr.…

Back in 2016 and 2017 (whoever thought that those would be the good ol’ days?), Yeshiva University hosted two TEDx events with topics that ranged from therapy and magic to the power of names, from how we view poverty to what’s missing in our pursuit of happiness. TEDx Yeshiva University is now back…