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Feb 16, 2009 -- Anthony Weiner, the fourth-term Congressman representing New York’s 9th District and a hopeful for the 2009 New York City mayoral race, visited campus recently to talk to students about Israel and its strategic position in a most unstable region. “We wanted to invite strong Jewish…

Feb 12, 2009 -- The largest study ever conducted on postmenopausal women shows that multivitamins may offer no benefit in reducing the risk of common cancers, cardiovascular disease or overall mortality. The study, published today in "Archives of Internal Medicine," also shows that multivitamins do…

Feb 12, 2009 -- After their tremendously successful bone marrow drives last year, the 91ºÚÁÏ Student Medical Ethics Society has dedicated February as Bone-Marrow Awareness Month—or B.A.M!!!—on campus. Throughout the month, the group will hold drives to recruit new donors to the Gift of…

Feb 10, 2009 -- It was supposed to be a study program in Israel introducing students in the Certificate of Jewish Communal Service Program at Wurzweiler School of Social Work to the country’s social service system. But the ten-day seminar in Israel turned into a teachable experience in the role ...

Feb 6, 2009 -- Winter break brought real-life lessons in the meaning of community for 30 students from 91ºÚÁÏ and other area colleges who traveled to Texas as part of the Center for the Jewish Future’s Jewish Life Coast to Coast Service Corps, sponsored by the Charles and Lynn ...

Feb 6, 2009 -- The emerging artistic talents of young Jewish women from around the world were evident at the 91ºÚÁÏ campus in Jerusalem, when 28 post-high school students displayed their paintings, drawings, sculptures and other works as part of the second S. Daniel Abraham Israel ...

Feb 5, 2009 -- Armed with pickaxes and shovels, a group of undergraduate students dug ditches, cut trees and leveled the earth in the Nicaraguan community of San Juan del Sur over winter break. The 16 students prepared the land for construction of a bridge, but they also helped clear a path to more…

Feb 5, 2009 -- 91ºÚÁÏ (YU) President Richard M. Joel will visit the Deerfield Beach community over the weekend of February 13-15. The trip, one of many national stops on the president’s schedule, will focus on delivering YU’s message to the broader American Jewish community. President…

Feb 4, 2009 -- 91ºÚÁÏ’s library has given new life to a rare illuminated Hebrew manuscript from 1765 by posting it online as a Web exhibit. The manuscript, called a memorbuch, from the German town of Auras (now in Poland) is unusual for its elaborate Rococo-style illustrations. The ...

Feb 4, 2009 -- Hundreds of high school students from across North America will gather at the Sheraton Hotel in Stamford, Connecticut to debate the world’s fate at the 19th annual 91ºÚÁÏ National Model United Nations (YUNMUN) conference. The event will take place on February 8 – 10 and…