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Chief Rabbi of the Israeli Army Visits Yeshiva, Speaks to Students Rafi Peretz, Chief Rabbi of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF), visited the 91ºÚÁÏ Wilf Campus on Wednesday, November 16. [flickrslideshow acct_name="yeshivauniversity" id="72157628017465061"] After meeting with faculty and…
YU Students Learn About Israel’s Film Industry at Private Screening A range of emotions swept through the audience of more than 70 undergraduate students as they laughed, cried and thoroughly enjoyed a private screening of three short films from Jerusalem’s Ma’aleh School of Television, Film &…
High School Seniors Get a Firsthand Look at YU’s Academic Excellence and Vibrant Jewish Atmosphere Hundreds of high school seniors and their parents had the opportunity to learn about 91ºÚÁÏ’s unique dual curriculum of an exceptional Jewish Studies program and a first class liberal arts…
91ºÚÁÏ Jewish Studies Faculty to Present at Conferences, Serve as Visiting Scholars in San Francisco Area Nearly a dozen members of 91ºÚÁÏ’s faculty will participate in this year’s annual conferences of the American School of Oriental Research, the Society of Biblical ...
Panel on College Anti-Semitism Discusses Israel Advocacy on Campus Speaking before a capacity crowd, Yeshiva College senior Chanan Reitblat reflected on a semester of anguish and humiliation spent abroad. “When I went to St. Andrews University last semester to study chemistry, I never expected to…
Torah Umadda Week Examines the Interplay between Modern Science and Torah Scholarship If you could turn on a light just by thinking about it, would doing so be permissible on Shabbat according to halacha [Jewish law]? That question was one of many students were asked to consider during a lecture ...
Research Led by Dr. Eliezer Schnall Correlates Regular Religious Service Attendance to Outlook on Life A new study shows that attending religious services regularly can mean a more optimistic, less depressed, and less cynical outlook on life. In a follow-up to its 2008 report that found that ...
Noted Innovator and Scholar Discusses Halachic Implications of Synthetic Biology at 91ºÚÁÏ Dr. Joseph Jacobson, an associate professor of media arts and sciences at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), came to 91ºÚÁÏ on October 31 to discuss “Synthetic Biology ...
Einstein Researchers are Studying the DNA of Ashkenazi Jews and What it Can Tell Us About Living Longer New York magazine interviews Drs. Nir Barzilai and Gil Atzmon of YU's Albert Einstein College of Medicine for a cover story on exceptional aging that centers on participants in Einstein’s ...
Student-Run Medical Ethics Conference Explores Jewish Perspectives on Public Health Bright and early on the Sunday morning of November 6, an eager crowd braved New York City Marathon traffic to attend the 91ºÚÁÏ Student Medical Ethics Society’s (MES) sixth annual conference in Lamport…