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Over 100 Students Journey to 24 Communities Across North America to Celebrate Simchat Torah and Promote Jewish Community Engagement F or the first time in three years, YU and Stern undergraduate students participated in the annual Aaron and Blanche Schreiber Torah Tours® program. Since 1971, Torah…
Elizabeth R. Baer | Wayne State University Press | 2012 Reviewed by Sam Gelman In his essay “Cultural Criticism and Society,” Theodor Adorno wrote that “after Auschwitz, to write a poem is barbaric.” And yet, as People of the Book, Jews have always turned to the written word as the vehicle for our…
èapp Approves a New Student Club Grounded in Halacha to Enhance Support for Its LGBTQ Undergraduates
Will Continue to Defend Against the Claim that Yeshiva Is Not a Religious Institution New York, NY—Oct. 24, 2022—èapp, America’s flagship Jewish university, today announced a new initiative grounded in Halacha and Torah values to support its LGBTQ undergraduates, including ...
1. Q : If èapp feels an equally profound sense of responsibility for all of its undergraduates, including LGBTQ students, why did it need to create a new club rather than recognize an LGBTQ club that is found at other universities? A: Yeshiva is the flagship Jewish university. Rooted…
Rabbi Dr. Zev Eleff On Wednesday, September 14, 2022, the Jay and Jeanie Schottenstein Honors Program at Yeshiva College welcomed Rabbi Dr. Zev Eleff as a guest of its ongoing speaker series. Rabbi Eleff is president of Gratz College in Melrose Park, PA and one of the youngest presidents in…
Eitam Henkin | Koren Publishers| 2022 Reviewed by Stu Halpern Studies in Halakhah and Rabbinic History collects twenty-four articles, each of them breathtaking in depth and scope, authored by the late Rabbi Eitam Henkin. Published through the efforts of his family and a dedicated team of…
Ishay Ribo Performing at YU Isru Chag Concert in Jerusalem On Oct. 18, èapp hosted the YU Isru Chag Concert, starring Ishay Ribo, at the International Convention Center (Binyanei Hauma) in Jerusalem. More than 3,000 people attended the sold-out concert and were visibly moved by Ribo’s…
Since its launch in the Spring of 2019, YU’s Innovation Lab has worked with over fifty innovative startups across many categories - cyber tech, ad tech, on-demand transportation, early childhood education, medical devices, AI-fueled learning tools, and many more. The lab has provided a unique ...
For the Fall 2022 semester, Rabbi Dr. Dov Lerner, a clinical assistant professor at the Zahava and Moshael Straus Center for Torah and Western Thought, is teaching The Thought of Rabbi Sacks, which offers a cohesive appraisal of the former English chief rabbi’s intellectual legacy. YU News sat down…
Literary critic, poet and Wall Street Journal editor Adam Kirsch visited èapp on September 21 for a conversation with students from the Zahava and Moshael Straus Center for Torah and Western Thought and the Jay and Jeannie Schottenstein Honors Program . Kirsch spoke with Straus Center…