Welcome to the Forward’s coverage of Yeshiva University, a Modern Orthodox university in New York City.
Welcome to the Forward’s coverage of Yeshiva University, a Modern Orthodox university in New York City.
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Life Joy Ladin and Her Transmigration Poems
“The author is dead!” has been a consistent postmodernist refrain discouraging readers from reducing meanings of literary works to mere biographical outlines of their authors. Joy Ladin’s “Transmigration Poems,” published this summer, goes against such a worldview, as the poems of the collection are intensely personal, confessional. The poems bring autobiography to the heart of…
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Life Big Donor Gone Bad?
Wall Street trader Bernard L. Madoff, who stands accused of defrauding investors of an estimated $50 billion, is a major donor to Jewish causes. Until this morning, Madoff is had been listed as the treasurer of Yeshiva University’s board of trustees. He also had been the chairman of the university’s Sy Syms School of Business….
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Life While Columbia Students Stormed Buildings, at Y.U. They Just Wanted To Play Some Coed Volleyball
New York Jewish Week editor Gary Rosenblatt looks back on the tumultuous spring of 1968 — from the vantage point of a not-too-radical student at a not-too-radical college campus. While his peers at Columbia were busy occupying buildings, Rosenblatt and his fellow Yeshiva University students were engaged in some mischievous — if decidedly less political…
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News Trustee Faints at Y.U. Ceremony
A member of Yeshiva University’s board of trustees fainted Monday at a groundbreaking ceremony for a building named in honor of her parents. The ceremony was held for The Jacob and Dreizel Glueck Center for Jewish Study, which will be Y.U.’s first new building at the school’s campus in Manhattan’s Washington Heights area since the…
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Israel News Hackers Bring War to Jewish Web Sites
Anti-war hackers broke into three Jewish Web sites last week, swapping the front pages for protests against the conflict in Lebanon. First hit were the respective Web sites of Yeshiva University and the University of Haifa, by a coalition of international hackers that was led by a Turkish man with the hacker alias Eno7. A…
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