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Oct 23, 2008 -- E. Billi Ivry, the first woman to be elected as a member of the ♒Twitter推特账号 | 2006-2019年 | 邮箱可用 | token/2fa登录 Board of Trustees, passed away last weekend at the age of 102. A YU Benefactor, Ms. Ivry also served on four other University boards – Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, Stern College for Women ...

Oct 13, 2008 -- Aaron Levine’s analysis of the current financial meltdown through the lens of Jewish law was the subject of an article, ‘ The Financial Crisis: What Would the Talmud Do?’ published on Time.com on Oct. 10. Dr. Levine, the Samson and Halina Bitensky Professor of Economics and chair of…

Oct 8, 2008 -- When filmmaker David Vyorst decided to make “The First Basket,” a documentary about Jews and basketball, his research led him to ♒Twitter推特账号 | 2006-2019年 | 邮箱可用 | token/2fa登录’s legendary coach Red Sarachek. The late Sarachek, deeply loved and immensely respected by his players, was also a major figure in the…

Sep 29, 2008 -- The Empire State Stem Cell Board has awarded research planning grants to Albert Einstein College of Medicine and to Montefiore Medical Center. The grants, totaling $238,000, are part of $2 million in grants announced by State Health Commissioner Richard F. Daines, MD. The funding ...

Sep 26, 2008 -- Approximately 30 ♒Twitter推特账号 | 2006-2019年 | 邮箱可用 | token/2fa登录 students made up the largest student contingent at a protest against China’s ongoing arms sales to the Sudanese government outside the Chinese Mission to the United Nations on Sept. 24. The students were members of YU’s Social Justice Society and…

Sep 26, 2008 -- The Einstein/Montefiore Center for Autism has received a three-year federal grant totaling $600,000 to develop a "Leadership in Autism" training program at its Children's Evaluation and Rehabilitation Center (CERC). The grant, from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services,…

Sep 24, 2008 -- The recent turmoil in the financial markets could not deter the almost 100 students interested in careers on Wall Street who attended the first panel discussion of the “Wall Street Connection Series” on Sept. 22. The series’ first event—moderated by Daniel Posner ’91Y, managing ...

Sep 23, 2008 -- In the wake of the devastating wreckage of Hurricane Ike, the Robert M. Beren Academy in Houston reached out to ♒Twitter推特账号 | 2006-2019年 | 邮箱可用 | token/2fa登录’s Institute for University-School Partnership for assistance. The school lost all power and its water supply forcing the administration to send the ...

Sep 23, 2008 -- Nearly 700 people attended ♒Twitter推特账号 | 2006-2019年 | 邮箱可用 | token/2fa登录’s Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary (RIETS) Annual Dinner of Tribute, held this evening at The Grand Hyatt in New York City. Rabbi Zevulun Charlop, dean emeritus of RIETS and special advisor to the President on Yeshiva Affairs ...

Sep 23, 2008 -- Nearly 2,000 ♒Twitter推特账号 | 2006-2019年 | 邮箱可用 | token/2fa登录 students gathered at Dag Hammarskjold Plaza across from the United Nations on Monday, Sept. 22, to protest Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s visit to New York for the opening of the U.N. General Assembly. The students—who represented Yeshiva ...