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Cardozo News Professor Pamela Foohey Comments, in USA Today, on the Need for Easier Discharge of Student Loan Debt in Bankruptcy Professor Matthew Wansley Responds to Waymo’s Court Victory in TechCrunch Professor Kate Shaw Discusses West Virginia v. EPA, Supreme Court Case Over Pollution, in The ...

On Wednesday, February 9, 2022, the The Rabbi Arthur Schneier Program for International Affairs, the Yeshiva University Center for Israel Studies and the Jay and Jeanie Schottenstein Honors Program at Yeshiva College hosted Gidon Bromberg, founder and Israel director of EcoPeace Middle East, for a…

MTA’s Makor Chaim Exchange Program is off to a great start, as 12 MTA Sophomores and Juniors arrived in Israel at Yeshivat Makor Chaim on Tuesday, February 22nd. Located in Kibbutz Kfar Etzion, Yeshivat Makor Chaim was founded by noted Jewish educators Rabbi Adin Steinzaltz and Rabbi Dov Singer ...

By Dr. Neil Rogachevsky Straus Center Associate Director and Assistant Professor On Monday, Feb. 14, Dr. Alex Priou, teaching assistant professor at the Herbst Program for Engineering, Ethics & Society at the University of Colorado, presented the lecture “Reading Plato’s Republic in America…

Dr. Naomi Goldstein Yeshiva University and the Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary (RIETS) mourn the passing of Rabbanit Dr. Naomi Goldstein Cohen z"l. Dr. Cohen was the last surviving grandchild of YU benefactors Harry and Jane Fischel z"l and the last surviving child of Rabbi Herbert S. and…

By Erica Sultan Research Fellow Rabbi Arthur Schneier Program for International Affairs In a time of regional strife in the Middle East, there is a small organization, the only one of its kind, making huge strides in peace building. EcoPeace Middle East is an organization run by Israeli,…

By Zvi Erenyi Collection Development and Reference Librarian Mendel Gottesman Library. On Feb. 16, 2022, the Yeshiva University Libraries Book Talks featured Dr. Joan Gluckauf Haahr, whose recently published Prisoners of Memory: A Jewish family from Nazi Germany (Full Court Press, 2021) vividly ...

Dr. Edward Belbruno Dr. Edward Belbruno, clinical professor of mathematics and recipient of the Humboldt Award of Germany in Mathematics for 2017-18, has co-authored a paper with Dr. James Green, former chief scientist at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), for the Monthly ...

Robert W. Snyder | Cornell University Press | 2019 Reviewed by Sam Gelman In 1943, a collection of newspapers, including the New York Times, published the New York City Market Analysis, which broke down the city's social and economic elements based on federal census data. In the report, the authors…