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By Herschel Hartz Assistant Director, Office of Student Life Rabbi Levi Raices and Rabbi Chaim Levinson from Chabad of Kharkov, Ukraine, where they have been working for almost 30 years, joined over 30 students and northern Manhattan community members at the Yeshiva University’s Shenk Synagogue on…
Indra Nooyi In another fascinating Sy Syms-sponsored fireside chat, Prof. Laizer Kornwasser, who in addition to teaching at Sy Syms is a member of its Board of Overseers and president and COO at CareCentrix, interviewed Indra Nooyi, former CEO and chairman of PepsiCo on Tuesday, March 22, 2022. In…
Passover raises thoughts and questions about slavery and freedom. Me-‘avdut le-herut … mi-shi’bud li-ge’ulah – from slavery to freedom , from bondage to redemption – these phrases from the Pesach Haggadah [ Mishna Pesachim 10:5] commemorate and celebrate the Exodus from Egypt. Postcard of Geulah ...
MTA talmidim in Rabbi Danto’s Freshman Shiur joined hundreds of talmidim at the V’haarev Na Simchas HaTorah on Thursday, April 7th, which began with a 3 hour retzifus chazzara. The event also included dancing, a seudah, divrei Torah, and a kumzits with Baruch Levine and Eitan Katz. Talmidim are ...
On Shabbos HaGadol, MTA hosted its annual Yeshiva Fellowship Shabbaton at the Kartrite Resort in the Catskills. The event began with a fun Friday afternoon, where talmidim enjoyed the resort’s many amenities, including the indoor arcade. Talmidim then spent an inspirational Shabbos with their ...
In this issue: Note from the Executive Director Scheduling an Appointment with an Adviser Alumni Appreciation Spotlight on Shoshanah Ghanooni ’23SB Tip of the Week: A Different Night Events Internships and Jobs Resources Contact the SGC CAPS—Connections and Partnerships for Success
Vanessa L. Ochs | Princeton University Press | 2020 Reviewed by Stu Halpern In The Passover Haggadah: A Biography, Vanessa L. Ochs traces the many afterlives of the story of the Exodus. Ochs, a professor of religion at the University of Virginia, stresses the composite nature of the Seder’s text…
Tzachi Rosman Tzachi Rosman ’03YC is a longtime Lego fan who has found a way to marry together his love of the bricks, his faith and his family by publishing Let My People Go! A Brick Lego Haggadah Companion. (See the other haggadot created by people at YU this season.) We caught with Tzachi to…
This year’s hackathon, the seventh iteration of this annual event, kicked off its coding sprint on Motzei Shabbat, April 9, in the Heights Lounge on the Wilf campus, with 17 of the original 35 participants making it to the finish line 24 hours later on Sunday, April 10. Phil Goldfeder, Senior Vice…
This post brings together some of the efforts Yeshiva University has made to explain and analyze the current war in Ukraine and do its part the end the atrocities. Ukraine Under Attack: The YU Community Comes Together The Legal, Cyber and Economic Fronts in the War in Ukraine Ukraine: Past, Present…
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