Tag: Yeshiva University
Yeshiva University brings exhibition on Samaritans to DC’s Museum of the Bible
The Museum of the Bible in Washington, D.C., is opening a new exhibition with unprecedented access to the life, culture and history of the Samaritans, a 2,000-year-old community.
Beginning on Sept. 16 and running through...
Why Yeshiva University has a First Amendment right to deny official status to an...
Yeshiva University has taken a strikingly ambitious nonstop express route to the U.S. Supreme Court. Lynn Kotler, a New York trial judge, ruled that Yeshiva is obliged by the State’s public accommodations anti-discrimination law...
Yeshiva University produces Haggadah guide to prompt introspection at seder table
With the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, the Russian war in Ukraine and rising inflation as Passover approaches, faculty and graduate students of Yeshiva University’s Azrieli Graduate School of Jewish Education have produced an interactive Haggadah companion that...
Yeshiva University cancels student program featuring anti-Israel speaker
Administrators at Yeshiva University canceled a student-planned program that would have featured an anti-Israel speaker who supported terrorists.
The program, which was scheduled for March 1 at the Benjamin Cardozo Law School in Manhattan, a...
Yeshiva University students head overseas to assist Ukrainian refugees
With more than 1.5 million Ukrainians fleeing to neighboring countries amid Russia’s invasion in what U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi calls the fastest-growing refugee crisis in Europe since World War II, a humanitarian...
The reverend father of ‘Israeli apartheid’
Back in 2003, I was a student at Yeshiva University’s Cardozo Law School. I had married my classmate, Malkah, and we were both halfway through the last year of school.
One day, we heard that...
Yeshiva University establishes Rabbi Jonathan Sacks Center for Values and Leadership
With the commemoration of the first yahrzeit of Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks, who served as chief rabbi of the United Hebrew Congregations of Great Britain and the Commonwealth, Yeshiva University announced the creation of the Rabbi...
Jewish ethicist Rabbi Moshe Tendler, 95, leaves medical and religious worlds more enlightened
Listening to Rabbi Dr. Moshe Tendler, who died last week at the age of 95, one never knew what to expect. Laced in scientific language, with biblical quotes and references from the Talmud, the...
Longtime Yeshiva University president Norman Lamm sought to unify in divisive reality
It was a brave speech at the 1969 Ideological Seminary in Kiljava, Finland. Rabbi Dr. Norman Lamm, then a prominent rabbi, theologian, professor and writer, in the Modern Orthodox world, was dissecting Neturei Karta,...
Remembering basketball star Marvin Hershkowitz, one of Yeshiva University’s ‘most iconic alumni’
As fans prepare for the much-anticipated return of the National Basketball Association (NBA) season, the lesser-known world of Jewish sports recently lost one of its legendary figures.
Marvin Hershkowitz, who passed away on May 4...