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Cardozo News Professor Gabor Rona Discusses the International Criminal Court and the War on Terror in Just Security Op-Ed Cardozo’s Arts & Entertainment Law Journal Hosts “25 Years of Section 230: Retain, Reform or Repeal?” Faculty Scholarship & News Professor Jocelyn Getgen Kestenbaum was…

For Passover 2022, Yeshiva University is proud to announce the publications of Haggadot written by YU faculty, students and alumni. Below is a short summary of each: The Beren Campus Haggadah 5782 - Torah Activities Council (TAC), Stern College for Women This student-produced Haggadah is 71 pages…

By Aliza Abrams Konig Senior Program Director Leadership Scholars It is with great excitement that I introduce the first cohort of Leadership Scholars. These 10 students from all over the world were selected after a rigorous application process and multiple interviews. Each student demonstrates a…

The faces of Rabbi Wolff By Yedidya Schechter ’24YC When my mother, Shoshana Schechter, was a student at Yeshiva University, she had the privilege to spearhead a program called YUSSR, where a handful of students went to different locations in Ukraine and Russia to assist Jews who needed help ...

On April 3, 2022, hundreds joined together in the Nathan Lamport Auditorium at Zysman Hall on the Wilf campus in Washington Heights for the launch of the Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks-Herenstein Center for Values and Leadership, “Passover, Redemption and Religious Freedom.” The event featured Dr. Ari…

By: Donny Book (‘22) It was a late night game for the Lions as they took a trip to Fort Lee, NJ, hoping to secure a win over SAR before the field lights went out. Coach Daniel Landa (‘19) and his MTA team were ready for any challenge that crossed their path, but focused on the task in front of them…

The war in Ukraine has been top of mind for so many people in the YU community because of the many personal, professional and spiritual connections that the University has with that part of the world. To help people find their footing as they react to the news coming out of Ukraine, the Rabbi…

By Sarah Wapner Straus Center Impact and Recruitment Officer Rabbi Dr. Meir Soloveichik and Dr. Ruth Wisse On March 29, 2022, the Zahava and Moshael Straus Center for Torah and Western Thought hosted Dr. Ruth Wisse, the Martin Peretz Professor of Yiddish Literature and Professor of Comparative ...

By Zvi Erenyi Collection Development & Reference Librarian Mendel Gottesman Library Tuesday, March 29, 2022, capped off the Yeshiva University Libraries Book Talks as Rabbi Netanel (Nathaniel) Wiederblank (instructor of Talmud, halacha and philosophy at the Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological…