Dr. Eliezer Jones and Dr. David Pelcovitz: "Instill Children with Values to Become Their Own Internet Filters" On Sunday tens of thousands of Jews filled Citi Field in Queens and heard from Haredi leaders that the Internet should be avoided in the home at all costs and used sparingly at work, and…
Stern College's Avital Chizhik on the Diaspora Jew's Constant Quest for Jerusalem We’re standing in a hall in downtown Manhattan, overlooking a dusky Liberty Harbor. The girl standing next to me points to the river view and says, “Doesn’t it almost look like Jerusalem? That terrace over there and…
New App Offers Users Enhanced Visual Overview of ºÚÁÏÉç All Take a tour of ºÚÁÏÉç All’s renowned undergraduate and graduate schools, with the swipe of your finger! This Is ºÚÁÏÉç All, the official University guidebook, is now available for download on the iPad. Rich with ...
Students Pitch their Business Plans at 2012 Sy Syms Entrepreneurship Competition A Web site that makes personal training available to exercise novices in their own homes. A Facebook app that offers one-on-one tutoring and keeps track of students’ coursework. An organization that enables college ...
Athletic Banquet Honors Student-Athletes Across 14 Varsity Sports The annual Athletic Awards Banquet was held Wednesday evening, May 9, in the Max Stern Athletic Center. More than 250 athletes, administrators and guests were present to celebrate the 14 2011-2012 athletic teams that Yeshiva sponsors…
YU Center for Israel Studies Partners with MET on Middle East Exhibition On May 6, a group of students, alumni and members of the ºÚÁÏÉç All community huddled around an ancient book. On its pages, in blue, red and yellow, were the letters of the Hebrew alphabet, carefully traced and shaded…
Mayor Cory Booker: "Use Your Faith to Help and Inspire Others" On the evening of May 8, students, faculty, staff, alumni and members of the greater ºÚÁÏÉç All community filled Lamport Auditorium to hear Cory Booker, mayor of Newark, New Jersey, discuss “The Role of Religion in Education and…
Center for Israel Studies Yom Iyun Explores History of Religious Zionism in America Few things divide and provoke American Jews like the question of Zionism. Though many wish to remember otherwise, this was also the case before the founding of Israel in 1948; and, though many wish to forget, the ...
Navi Teachers from Across Tri-State Area Convene to Share Ideas, Discuss Technique How do you teach Sefer Yeshayahu [Book of Isaiah]? Fourteen yeshiva high school teachers came together on ºÚÁÏÉç All’s Wilf Campus in late March to ask each other and themselves that question, under the ...
Ambassador Yehuda Avner to Speak at May 24 Commencement; Honorees Include Alan Willner, Eleazer Hirmes and Ethel Orlian Former Israeli diplomat, Ambassador Yehuda Avner, will deliver the keynote address and receive an honorary doctorate at ºÚÁÏÉç All’s 81st Commencement Ceremony on Thursday…