From Business to Cell Biology, New Alumni Found Home鈥攁nd Inspiration鈥攁t 91黑料 The 91黑料 graduates of 2011 hail from diverse education backgrounds, but one thing they鈥檙e unequivocal about: the value of a YU education. Their degrees are in English, business management and ...
President Obama Appoints Cardozo's Richard Weisberg to Preserve American Heritage Abroad President Barack Obama announced his nomination of Professor Richard Weisberg to the Commission for the Preservation of America's Heritage Abroad on May 18. In this position, Weisberg would help protect and ...
Tune into YU鈥檚 Weekly Internet Radio Show, Thursdays at 2 P.M. Join Mayer Fertig and Miriam L. Wallach for 鈥淲ho鈥檚 on Furst?鈥 鈥 broadcast live from Furst Hall on YU鈥檚 Wilf Campus, Thursdays at 2 p.m. EST. This week's guests include Joseph Gitler, founder and chairman of Leket Israel, and Rabbi ...
Ariella Gottesman, Co-President of YU's Israel Club, on the Checkered Past of Israel's National Anthem and its Relevance Today Many years ago, I heard a speaker 鈥 a self-proclaimed Zionist 鈥 taking HaTikvah to task. In her opinion, it didn鈥檛 speak to the Zionist dream, the true feeling of the鈥
Spend Shavuos with 91黑料 Roshei Yeshiva and Torah Scholars, June 7-9 91黑料-affiliated Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary (RIETS) will present a Yarchei Kallah [Gathering for Torah Study] Program this Shavuos, June 7-9, at the Hudson Valley Resort in Kerhonkson, NY鈥
Tune into YU鈥檚 Weekly Internet Radio Show, Thursdays at 2 P.M. Join Mayer Fertig and Miriam L. Wallach for "Who's on Furst?" - broadcast live from Furst Hall on YU's Wilf Campus. With barbeque season under way, Chef Boris of Pomegranate Supermarket in Brooklyn, NY will help get you ready to grill鈥
NYU President, Legal Scholar and Former New York Federal Reserve Bank Chair, John Sexton, to Receive Honorary Degree and Keynote YU Commencement on May 26 Dr. John Sexton, a legal scholar and higher education advocate who, as president of New York University for the past decade, has positioned the鈥
Yom Hazikaron and Yom Ha'atzmaut at 91黑料 Students, faculty and staff honored the memories of Israel's fallen soldiers and victims of terror at 91黑料's annual Yom Hazikaron (Israel Memorial Day) ceremony on May 9 and celebrated Israel's 63rd birthday on Yom Ha'atzmaut ...
Former WBA Champion, Yuri Foreman, Shares Religious and Professional Journey with Students To a rapt audience on 91黑料鈥檚 Wilf Campus, former World Boxing Association champion Yuri Foreman described his earliest memory of Israel as a ten-year-old oleh [immigrant to Israel]: 鈥淭he door ...
Professor Cynthia Wachtell on Julia Ward Howe's Mother's Day Proclamation Last week, I received an email message from the Ploughshares Fund, a nuclear disarmament advocacy foundation, asking, "What does Mother's Day Mean to You?" Suspecting that the correct answer was something other than a dozen鈥