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’s Program for Jewish Genetic Health Launches New, Educational Website
Tuesday, May 7th, 2013YU’s Program for Jewish Genetic Health recently launched a new, online educational resource, GeneSights, to inform Jewish individuals about the many genetic health conditions that affect the Jewish community. The website, www.genesights.com, was launched in cooperation with YU’s Albert Einstein College of Medicine. GeneSights consists of individual “lessons” with topics selected based on their current [...]
Mort Zuckerman to Receive First Sy Syms Humanitarian Award
Monday, April 22nd, 2013The Student Council of the Sy Syms School of Business will be presenting Mortimer B. Zuckerman with the first-ever Sy Syms Humanitarian Award, in recognition of his humanitarian efforts and ethical business practices throughout many years in philanthropy and business. The formal dinner and reception will be held at the Museum of Jewish Heritage on April 23 as [...]
YU 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 [...]
Albert Einstein College of Medicine Announces $500 Million Capital Campaign
Monday, April 22nd, 2013Addressing an enthusiastic gathering of more than 400 supporters, alumni and faculty on Monday, April 15, Allen M. Spiegel, M.D., the Marilyn and Stanley M. Katz Dean of Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University, publicly announced the College of Medicine’s largest fundraising effort—a capital campaign to raise at least $500 million, known as [...]
YU Museum Receives Grant from the Covenant Foundation
Monday, February 11th, 2013Yeshiva University Museum is the recipient of a prestigious Signature Grant from The Covenant Foundation, which develops and supports Jewish education and community-building projects and programs in the U.S. Yeshiva University Museum will receive $135,900 over three years to expand Re-Imagining Jewish Education through Art, an initiative that uses the arts and critical inquiry to [...]
Bequest by Herbert S. Denenberg Trust Establishes Two Yeshiva College Chairs
Thursday, February 7th, 2013On February 5, Yeshiva University marked the investiture of two new chairs in Judaic studies at Yeshiva College, endowed through a generous bequest from the Herbert S. Denenberg Trust. Dr. Yaakov Elman, professor of Judaic studies at Yeshiva College and YU’s Bernard Revel Graduate School of Jewish Studies, was appointed the Herbert S. and Naomi [...]
Professor Jeffrey Gurock’s Book, City of Promises, Wins Award
Tuesday, January 22nd, 2013The Jewish Book Council has named City of Promises: A History of the Jews of New York (NYU Press, September 2012) recipient of The Everett Family Foundation Jewish Book of the Year Award. The three-volume work—with contributions from Jeffrey S. Gurock, Libby M. Klaperman Professor of Jewish History at Yeshiva University, as well as Howard B. Rock, Annie Polland and Daniel [...]
Mandate to Matter: YU’s $1 Billion Capital Campaign
Thursday, January 3rd, 2013Yeshiva University went public with a $1 billion capital campaign at the 88th Annual Hanukkah Dinner and Convocation. The aggressive drive is now underway to complete the final stages of the campaign it launched in 2006 and to raise an additional $400 million for undergraduate scholarships, a core University priority. YU launched the $1 billion [...]