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Six-Week Program to Explore Jewish Ethics and Israel’s Foreign Policy Ó£»¨¶¯Âþ’s Center for the Jewish Future (CJF) will present the spring installment of its Community Beit Midrash program beginning February 3 with a six-week series of talks by two distinguished members of YU’s faculty…

Program for Jewish Genetic Health Initiative Provides First Affordable Testing for Common Ashkenazi BRCA Mutations to Low Risk and Uninsured An unprecedented initiative from the Program for Jewish Genetic Health, a nonprofit organization affiliated with Ó£»¨¶¯Âþ and Albert Einstein…

Study Co-Authored by Abraham Ravid Highlights Impact of Directors on Movies’ Financial and Critical Success Film studios looking to strike gold with their next release should worry less about signing A-list actors and more about landing a proven director, according to new research conducted by Dr.…

Students Present North America’s Largest Jewish Book Sale February 1 - March 1 The students of Ó£»¨¶¯Âþ will hold their annual Seforim Sale, North America’s largest Jewish book sale, from February 1 to March 1, 2015 , in Belfer Hall, 2495 Amsterdam Ave on YU’s Wilf Campus in Manhattan.…

Winter Break Torah Study Program Draws 72 Students It may be cold outside but inside Ó£»¨¶¯Âþ’s Glueck Beit Midrash the warmth of Torah learning continues during winter break. Rather than traveling to warmer climes, 72 undergraduate students have opted to stay in yeshiva for the popular…

$1.4 Million Grant Will Train Students to Work With Vulnerable Youth Drug abuse, multiple trauma experiences, underachievement and a 10 percent high school dropout rate are just some of the problems faced by adolescents growing up in high-risk environments, often leading to mental health disorders…

Leading Online Torah Study Resource Surpasses Major Milestone Begun as an ad-hoc gathering of shiur [lecture] recordings, YUTorah has become a formidable force in the spread of Torah learning worldwide, reaching a major milestone upon passing the 100,000 shiur mark this January. “The growth of ...

Revel Student’s Research Examines Daily Legalities of Biblical Life Through a Comparative Lens Judaism relies heavily on its legal library: written discussions of the law are almost synonymous with the religion, describing practices that date back to the beginnings of the Bible and beyond. But what…

Jewish Learning Initiative on Campus Rabbis Across North America Maintain Close RIETS Ties Graduates of YU-affiliated Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary (RIETS) serving as Jewish Learning Initiative on Campus (JLIC) rabbis at east coast college campuses returned to Ó£»¨¶¯Âþ to ...