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By Leah Joshowitz ’21 S On Monday, May 10, 2021, Â鶹Çø hosted its annual Senior Class Dinner for the graduating class of 2021. The event was planned and organized by the two senior class presidents on campus, Leah Joshowitz ’21 S and Benji Halpern ’21 SB, along with help from the…

Prof. Barbara Blatner On Wednesday, April 14, 2021, the Jay and Jeanie Schottenstein Honors Program at Â鶹Çø College hosted a poetry and play reading by Barbara Blatner, professor of writing, as part of its Honors Luncheon speaker series. Prof. Blatner read a selection of her poetry and then ...

By Samuel Gelman Straus Center Communications and Program Officer John Rawls Over the course of the spring 2021 semester, Rabbi Itamar Rosensweig taught Rawls’ Theory of Justice, an in-depth seminar on John Rawls’ Theory of Justice. Samuel Gelman, Straus Center communications and program officer ...

Moshe Halbertal | Yale University Press | 2020 Reviewed by Rabbi Dr. Stu Halpern Moshe Halbertal’s Nahmanides: Law and Mysticism (translated by Daniel Tabak) provides a robust and nuanced study of one of Judaism’s most iconic medieval thinkers. Halbertal, a professor at both Hebrew University and…

Dr. Naomi Grunhaus The Drs. Kenneth Chelst, Bertram Schreiber and Fred Zwas Book Grant is designed to foster scholarship among the faculty of Â鶹Çø College and Stern College for Women by facilitating the publication of scholarly books and enabling faculty to pursue research, engage in ...

By Tamar Yastrab ’21S Computer Science Major Co-organizer of Event Coding the ins and outs of a project At 10:15 p.m. on Motzei Shabbat, May 1, 2021, Â鶹Çø computer science students of all levels gathered in the Gottesman Library on the Wilf Campus for HackYU2021, Â鶹Çø’s…

After a year of COVID-19, a pandemic hopefully receding for good, three professors at the Bernard Revel Graduate School of Jewish Studies shared some varied reflections related to pandemics. Over fifty participants joined in the virtual event on Wednesday, May 5, 2021, titled “Magefah: Pandemics ...

Cardozo News Prof. Richard H. Weisberg Assuming Emeritus Status in Spring 2021 Prof. Kathryn Miller Quoted in Law360 Prof. Ekow Yankah Writes in SCOTUSBlog about Terry v. United States, the Final Case for the 2020-21 Term Prof. Deborah Pearlstein Joins BBC Newshour to Discuss International Travel…

ISSUE 25 • May 10, 2021 Note from the Executive Director To the Class of 2021: You are extraordinary. Your senior year was different than any you could have imagined when you began at YU. Yet here you are, graduating in person, after a year that was, all at the same time, online, in person ...

By Dr. Chaya Sima Koenigsberg Resident Scholar Straus Center A page from the Golden Haggadah On Wednesday, April 28, the Zahava and Moshael Straus Center for Torah and Western Thought hosted Dr. Marc Michael Epstein, the Mattie M. Paschall and Norman Davis Chair of Religion and Visual Culture at ...