יום רביעי, כ״ג תמוז תשפ״וWednesday, July 8, 2026
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By Alan Zeitlin
Point guard Max Zakheim helped the team go on a five-game wining streak.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Rabbi Ari Berman, head of Yeshiva University, wrote that it is a privilege to “offer a prayer of unity and hope” at this momentous event.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
“You’re always welcome back to my office,” the Pennsylvania senator told the more than 100 Yeshiva University students who visited him in Washington.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Ruth Gottesman, who is part of a prominent Jewish family that has donated to many organizations, including Yeshiva University, is supporting students at YU's former medical school.
Yeshiva University's Innovation Lab has initiated a new program that offers free support and expertise to local small businesses with the goal of helping them thrive in this challenging economic climate.
By Israel Hayom
The confab will strengthen academic partnerships with the UAE and promote dialogue between Jews and Muslims.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
“Well-meaning politicians are kindly asked to learn the facts before attacking Jewish education,” responded a Becket Fund vice president.
By Ben Shapiro
The fate of our children’s children rests with us – with whether we surrender the legacy of our forefathers for a little temporary convenience, or whether we stand proud and strong in the face of the storms to come.
It’s also drawing applicants outside the school’s traditional base, including more women and students from outside the country.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Weissburg Commons has been used for educational, political, public health and religious programming for the school and its neighbors.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Rabbi Jonathan Sacks “believed in the power of the written word. Presenting a literary award in his honor is an important recognition of his commitment to the flourishing of the Jewish bookshelf.”
“It is unfortunate that some members of the opposing team disrespected Israel’s national anthem. We are proud to be the only university who sings both the American and Israeli national anthems before every athletic competition and major event,” said Yeshiva University president Ari Berman.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The Maccabees are ranked No. 24 in a listing on D3hoops.com, voted on by a panel of 25 coaches, sports-information directors and reporters.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The gift—one of the largest focused on Jewish education the institution has ever received—will help boost undergraduate scholarships.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Students visited more than 15 startup firms in sectors such as cyber security, medicine, biotech, agrotech, finance and artificial intelligence.
What really makes the annual United Hatzalah concert unique is...
By JNi.Media
Although President-Elect Trump should not be taken for granted on any issue, his choices for Ambassador to Israel and for the Israel-PA peace negotiator are at least a positive opening signal to Israel's rightwing majority.
The Maccabeats present their Hanukkah Hamilton parody - Hasmonean.
By JNi.Media
The new group encourages its constituencies "to pursue guidance from its own rabbinic authorities and to continue the spirit of mutual respect and dignity that Jewish practice demands and engenders."
By JNi.Media
Jerry Nadler stuck his neck out as the only Jewish Congressman to support Obama's nuclear deal with Iran — which did not earn him the DNC staff's respect.
Remembering Rabbi Maurice Lamm (1930-2016)
"According to the written sources, biblical and post-biblical, there was intense debate as to when Shavuot is celebrated and why."
By JNi.Media
Tova Fish-Rosenberg created the program back in 2004, transforming traditional history lessons into a lively, interactive, nontraditional experience that involves individuals who lived through the history being taught.
By JNi.Media
Many Israeli and Jewish universities were in the top 500...
"He did not know what anger was and never engaged in slander."
He followed and spread the teachings of his late father-in-law, Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik.
Dr. Henry Kressel, Chairman of the Board of Trustees of Yeshiva University, sent out an email statement in reaction to a faculty “no confidence” vote Friday against President Richard Joel.
As this week's Parsha is Breishit (Genesis), we thought it would be interesting to run one of Rabbi Natan Slifkin's talks on Torah, Creation... and Dinosaurs. The photo above is from the site AllAboutJerusalem.com and the article there talks about the dinosaur footprints that were found in Beit Zayit in Jerusalem.
It would be tragic beyond all proportion if Yeshiva University were to fold. I don’t think that is going to happen.
The financially troubled Einstein College of Medicine will have Montefiore as its key financial manager; YU will continue granting the degrees.
By JTA
A Yeshiva University rabbinical student who pleaded guilty to child exploitation and possession of child pornography was sentenced on Tuesday to 13 years in federal prison. Rabbis and a professor from Yeshiva University had written letters to the Judge Lewis A. Kaplan of the United States District Court in New York, requesting leniency in his […]
Students of Torah build and preserve the Jewish people through their study.
By JTA
It is too easy to blame Bernard Madoff for Yeshiva University’s financial problems.
By JTA
Increased knowledge of women of Jewish laws and the Torah has created thorny issues for the Orthodox community.
By JTA
Jonathan Halpert, whose contract as the men’s basketball coach at Yeshiva University was not renewed, closed out more than four decades on the Maccabees’ bench with a victory. Y.U. edged Maritime College, 60-57, before a nearly full house at the New York school’s Max Stern Athletic Center on Saturday night, according to the Yeshiva website, […]
J.P. Morgan Chase will pay $1.7 billion to victims of the Bernard Madoff Ponzi fraud scheme, according to deal announced by the Justice Department’s prosecutors, who agreed to delay criminal charges against the bank. The financial institution is charged with violating the Bank Secrecy Act, and charges will be delayed for two years pending the […]
By Tibbi Singer
Absent much to do in the home country, Ayalon got a job teaching at YU, where America's future diplomats usually don't come from.
By JTA
At least 18 Jewish non-profit groups and non-profit groups that support Israeli institutions have notified tax authorities of likely illegal “diversions” of funds in the past five years. The Washington Post on Sunday published its review of more than 1,000 non-profit organizations that have reported such anomalies since 2008, when the Internal Revenue Service began […]
Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks told an audience at Eastern College on Thursday, Oct. 24, that he intends to dedicate the rest of his life working with students. He said he wants to support and encourage students to do great things for others.
The reaction to his statement has been illuminating as to the double standards that are often employed on matters relating to Israel.
By JTA
Yeshiva University has terminated Akiva Roth, 42, after past sexual misconduct came to light, officials said Friday.. The university admitted that it had “erred” by allowing Roth to begin teaching before his background check was completed. Roth, who had been hired as a Hebrew teacher at Yeshiva College, had pleaded guilty to four counts of […]
By JTA
Yeshiva University hired a new faculty member convicted of inappropriate sexual behavior with boys, according to the Forward. The university, which is facing a major lawsuit concerning its handling of allegations of sexual abuse over several decades, has hired Akiva Roth, who pleaded guilty in 1997 to four counts of lewdness against several boys he […]
By JTA
Rabbi Norman Lamm, the former chancellor of Yeshiva University, was found unfit to testify in a $380 million sex abuse lawsuit against the school. Dr. Elise Caccappolo of Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center said Lamm cannot provide reliable testimony, the New York Post reported, citing Lamm’s attorney Joel Cohen. Caccappolo, a neuropsychologist, evaluated Lamm on Sept. […]
By JTA
Twelve former students joined a $380 million lawsuit against Yeshiva University for covering up sexual abuse at its high school. The new plaintiffs’ names came out in court papers used in a hearing Tuesday in U.S. District Court in White Plains, N.Y., according to the New York Daily News, and bring to 31 the number of […]
Unlike the survivors of abuse that took place at YU, I do not want to see YU close down.
By JTA
Yeshiva University has paid dearly with a tarnished image as a result of sexual abuse at the venerable institution. Former students now want it to pay very dearly – to the tune of $380 – for damages.
By JTA
Alvin Schiff, a pioneer in Jewish education and a prolific author, died of unknown causes, Yeshiva University announced Monday. He was in his mid-80s. He established and directed the Graduate School of Jewish Education at YU in 1959, before it was later renamed the Azrieli Graduate School of Jewish Education and Administration. Schiff authored more […]
"Yeshiva University is not only an institution. It is a faith, a vision, a dream, a destiny. It has been my faith, my vision, my dream, and my destiny."
By JTA
Rabbi Norman Lamm became president of Yeshiva U. in 1976 , helped save it from bankruptcy and raised its academic standing, At 85, he admits he must do tshvuah over a sex abuse scandal and is retiring.
What Rav Soloveitchik said in 1974 is truer than ever: normative Judaism is on the defensive in the modern world.
American Friends of Soroka Medical Center are giving an award at their gala to Mandy Patinkin, an American Jewish celebrity who supports economic warfare against Jews living and working in Judea and Samaria.
Four major American Jewish organizations publicly expressed disgust over the choice to honor Jimmy Carter by a journal of Cardozo School of Law.
I will come, at my own expense, to debate Jimmy Carter on Carter's own human rights record. If Cardozo will have me, I will come and provide the students, the administration and anyone else that is interested, with a first rate debate about the meaning of human rights and they can decide whether what Jimmy Carter has done, constitutes human rights or human wrongs.
The Coalition of Concerned Cardozo Alumni, however, looked at Carter's "lifetime of work" and rather than see something worthy of an award, they saw a record of slandering Israel.
Yeshiva University needs to admit that mistakes were made by leaders both past and present.
Last February, close to 3,000 people tuned in to watch YU's first-ever Torah Halftime Show.
Should a university be sued because their officials at that time misread those events as relatively harmless?
My own experiences within the shidduch system has caused me to question it considerably.
Wouldn’t it be wonderful if instead of Hashkafic politics we could all be interested teaching Torah L’shma to anyone, anywhere without any Hashkafic pre-conditions?
On university campuses, students have for the most part remained stalwart supporters of their original candidate, and the debates have merely informed and educated student voters. Still, it appears that many Zionist students are unforgiving of President Obama’s foreign policies, and demand that immediate action be taken in attending to Iran’s nuclear program.
For Zionist students, foreign policy, and particularly the candidates’ positions on Israel and the Middle East, play a pivotal role when choosing their candidate. For many of these students, Israel is ultimately the deciding factor in determining for which candidate they will cast their vote.
By JTA
Rabbi Meir Soloveichik is scheduled to deliver the opening invocation at the Republican National Convention. “It is an extraordinary privilege to deliver an invocation at a cherished ritual of American democracy,” said Soloveichik of the invocation, which he is scheduled to deliver on Tuesday in Tampa, Fla. Soloveichik is the director of the Straus Center […]
Imagine a Moetzes that included a broader spectrum of rabbinic leaders. And a population of educated Jews that can make a decent living in all fields – including the field of Torah study.
By Eli Chomsky
Yeshiva University men’s basketball coach Jonathan Halpert now has his signature on the school’s men’s basketball court. The Coach Jonathan Halpert Scholarship Fund, an endowment to be awarded annually to children of YU alumni living in Israel wishing to study at the university, now bears his name. Later this year Halpert, who earned his high […]
Shalhevet Schwartz, a 14 year old girl from Riverdale, Bronx, was one of only two girls to compete in her division of the National Bible Contest held last Sunday at Yeshiva University in Manhattan. Despite appearances, the freshman at SAR High School exhibited sufficient bible knowledge to win, and be eligible to participate in the world championships in Jerusalem, the “Chidon HaTanach”, held every year on Israel’s Independence Day.
By dvora
Rabbi Norman Lamm wrote and preserved the hundreds of eloquent and inspiring sermons he had delivered as a pulpit rabbi in Manhattan for 25 years prior to becoming president of Yeshiva University,
July 3, 2026 
