Sep 29, 2019 By: yunews
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鈥淓very generation has its own form of teshuva鈥攐urs is not different.鈥
During his pre-selichot presentation in the Glueck Beit Midrash, Dr. Berman called upon each of us to consider two core values in our collective process of repentance. Our core of Torat Emet requires us to acknowledge the immutability of Torah, and that our past can make moral claims on our present. 鈥淥ur core of Torat Chesed requires that we be caring and compassionate in the way we treat others within our communities. This season of self-reflection is a time for us to measure whether we live up to both of these ideals.鈥
YU Giving Day Raises Over $5 Million to Support Student Scholarships
Mitch Cohen, Software Engineer at Google, Gives the Keynote Lecture at the 2nd Annual YU TechUcation Career Event
Highlights on Campus
Dr. Danielle Wozniak, dean of the Wurzweiler School of Social Work, talks about 奥耻谤锄飞别颈濒别谤鈥檚 educational program for social workers in Israel.
Author Dan Beaudry helped YU鈥檚 international students learn tools and strategies to navigate the American workplace.
Joseph Moinian of The Moinian Group talks about New York real estate for the YU Professional Networking Group.
Joe Bednarsh, YU athletics director (center), speaks at a conference on the impact of anti-Semitism in sports.
Dr. Mark Steiner explored the link between Hume and Maimonides at an event hosted by the Bernard Revel Graduate School of Jewish Studies.
Dr. Debbie Akerman, Alex Reinert, and Dr. Daniel Rynhold discuss 鈥渞einventing the self鈥 from the worlds of addiction, prison reform and Jewish philosophy.
MTA is expanding its academic programs for sophomores with three new concentrations: Torah Leadership, Engineering+ and Entrepreneurship.
Students get ready for Rosh Hashanah with inspirational lectures, selichot, chessed activities, charity and music
Dr. Avi Muschel, staff psychologist at YU鈥檚 Counseling Center, wins the grand prize at Nefesh International for his presentation on premarital education.
, sponsored by the Center for the Jewish Future and the Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary.
Faculty News of Note
贵别谤办补耻蹿鈥檚 Dr. Jeffrey Gonzalez gets a $3.3 million grant from the National Institutes of Health for research on prediabetes in Black and Latino men.
The work of 贵别谤办补耻蹿鈥檚 Dr. Jonathan Feldman studying panic attacks and asthma is cited as 鈥渙ffering important insight into panic-fear mechanisms.鈥
Stern College鈥檚 Dr. Joshua Waxman went to the Netherlands to present his work on data and Torah at a digital humanities conference.
Dr. Michelle J. Levine of Stern College returns to her Kew Gardens Hills community to begin her yearly adult lecture series on Bible topics.
奥耻谤锄飞别颈濒别谤鈥檚 Daniel Pollack published articles on the scarcity of attorneys in rural America and how to manage angry clients.
Dr. Van Kelly, clinical professor of computer science at Yeshiva College, wins a distinguished alumni award from his alma mater.
Alumni Snapshots
Rep. Dafna (Kalish) Michaelson Jenet 鈥95S looks to Judaism for inspiration and guidance for her work and the way she lives her life.
