Gavriel Brown, Yeshiva College junior and member of YU’s Jay and Jeanie Schottenstein Honors Program, won first place in the Elie Wiesel Foundation for Humanity Prize in Ethics Essay Contest. The annual competition challenges college students across the country to submit thought-provoking personal essays that raise questions, single out issues and are rational arguments for ethical action. Brown’s [...]
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YU Student Gavriel Brown Wins 2013 Elie Weisel Prize in Ethics
Thursday, May 9th, 2013YU High School Student Wins Chidon HaTanach, International Bible Competition
Monday, April 22nd, 2013On April 16, Yishai Eisenberg, a freshman at the Marsha Stern Talmudical Academy / Yeshiva University High School for Boys (YUHSB), became the first non-Israeli in 20 years to win the Chidon HaTanakh, Israel’s annual International Bible Competition for high school students. Eisenberg, of Passiac, NJ, dominated the competition from the outset, becoming the first champion in its 50-year run [...]
Project START! Goes International
Monday, April 22nd, 2013Project START! (Students Teachers and Researchers Teach), the YU volunteer program started by Yair Saperstein ’12YC, has now gone national and international, having expanded to the University of Iowa and York University in Toronto, Canada. The YU program – which recruits college students to teach hands-on science elssosn to students in middle schools in Washington [...]
YU Students Spend Winter Break on Service-Learning Missions Across the Globe
Thursday, February 7th, 2013This winter break, 90 Yeshiva University students took part in an array of hands-on community building projects in Israel, the United States, Nicaragua and Mexico. Organized by YU’s Center for the Jewish Future, the missions differed widely in focus, ranging from service-learning and experiential education to humanitarian aid. Building on the success of the Counterpoint [...]
YU’s Annual Seforim Sale to Benefit Victims of Hurricane Sandy
Tuesday, January 22nd, 2013Yeshiva University’s annual Seforim Sale, North America’s largest Jewish book sale, will take place from February 3 to March 3 in Belfer Hall on YU’s Wilf Campus in Manhattan. The sale—operated entirely by YU students—typically supports various initiatives, including student activities on campus and undergraduate scholarships. This year, a portion of the proceeds will also [...]
YU’s CJF Sends Nearly 100 Students on Service-Learning Missions
Thursday, January 3rd, 2013Yeshiva University’s Center for the Jewish Future (CJF) will be sending nearly 100 outstanding undergraduate students on service learning, experiential education and humanitarian aid missions in Israel, the United States, Nicaragua and Mexico during the University’s upcoming winter intersession. Building on the success of the “Counterpoint Israel” summer program, 39 YU students will run a [...]
Orientation 2012: YU Welcomes Nearly 700 New Students to Wilf and Beren Campuses
Wednesday, August 22nd, 2012Orientation 2012, which kicked off on Wednesday, August 22nd, saw YU officially welcome almost 700 new students to the Wilf and Beren Campuses. “As we begin Chodesh Elul [the Hebrew month of Elul] we are profoundly reminded of the challenge and the opportunity of renewal and new beginnings based on who we are and who we [...]
Sarah King ’14S: Commends Donors Looking Beyond Their Own Generation
Wednesday, August 15th, 2012The main reason Sarah King ’14S desired to attend Stern College for Women was “because it was the best of both worlds,” she explains. “The fact that I can get a quality education comparable to any top-tier school while still maintaining a religious lifestyle is extremely valuable to me.” King, a scholarship recipient, is a [...]
Bella Wolf ’14S, Scholarship Recipient, Expresses Gratitude Toward Donors
Thursday, August 9th, 2012Bella Wolf ’14S is a junior majoring in biology and a scholarship recipient at Stern College for Women. Wolf says, “I am incredibly grateful for the opportunity to attend Stern. I knew for a while that I wanted to pursue a career in medicine, but without the guidance and reassurance that the people at Stern [...]
YU’s Own Young Historian Set to Begin Joint Yale Law and History Program
Wednesday, June 13th, 2012Elie Friedman ’11YC was a history student and research assistant when he came across a January 1967 Supreme Court case while looking through years of The New York Times back issues for Dr. Ellen Schrecker, professor of American history at Yeshiva College. Schrecker was working on the most recent of her many books, The Lost [...]