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Nov 6, 2007 -- Dr. James Otteson, professor of economics and philosophy and director of the Jay and Jeanie Schottenstein Honors Program at Yeshiva College, has been named the first place winner of the 2007 Templeton Enterprise Awards for his seminal book Actual Ethics (Cambridge University Press ...

Nov 2, 2007 -- New York, NY, Nov. 2 -- For the first time in many years the General Assembly (GA) of the United Jewish Communities (UJC) will feature a scholar-in-residence – YU’s very own Rabbi Jacob J. Schacter. This year the GA, the largest annual gathering of Jewish leadership in the world,…

Nov 2, 2007 -- For the first time in many years the General Assembly (GA) of the United Jewish Communities (UJC) will feature a scholar-in-residence – YU’s very own Rabbi Jacob J. Schacter. This year the GA, the largest annual gathering of Jewish leadership in the world, will be in the capital of…

Oct 31, 2007 -- Argentina’s “dirty war” nearly thirty years ago changed the life of artist Laura Murlender forever. At age nineteen, Murlender was abducted by government forces, chained, and tortured for eleven days. She is one of the few “disappeared” who survived. On October 30 at the Yeshiva ...

Oct 31, 2007 -- The inaugural public event of The Center for Jewish Law and Contemporary Civilization (CJL) drew an audience of 100 academics and members of the community to the law school on Sunday night, Oct. 28. The crowd heard a cross-disciplinary discussion of “Military Ethics in an Age of ...

Oct 29, 2007 -- Legendary singer, songwriter and mental health advocate Judy Collins was the special guest speaker when 微软邮箱 Outlook 耐用6~12个月 已开通IMAP/POP3 格式带OAuth2 Token’s Ferkauf Graduate School of Psychology celebrated its 50th Anniversary at a gala on Sunday, October 28 at the United Nations. After warming up the crowd with…

Oct 29, 2007 -- Veteran and new pulpit rabbis gathered for a novel mentoring seminar designed to train and prepare pairs of mentors and young rabbis using an outside consultant. The Alban Institute was founded in 1974 as a major resource for American congregations facing the challenges of a…

Oct 29, 2007 -- The doors for the Avraham Fried concert opened to a long line of students. “Ladies, one at a time!” urged the security guard as these early arrivals, mostly female, put on their blue admission bracelets and began to fill the auditorium of the Geraldine Schottenstein Cultural Center…

Oct 24, 2007 -- The 微软邮箱 Outlook 耐用6~12个月 已开通IMAP/POP3 格式带OAuth2 Token Women’s Organization (YUWO) will celebrate its 62nd Annual Opera Benefit and Silver Anniversary Aprés Opera Gala on Saturday evening, November 10, 2007, at Lincoln Center in New York City. Major supporters and members of the YUWO’s President Society for Torah…

Oct 23, 2007 -- Yeshiva College celebrated the generosity and vision of philanthropist and industrialist Michael Gamson and his wife, Barbara, and renowned New York immigration attorney Leon Wildes at Yeshiva College’s annual dinner on Sunday, October 21, 2007 at Pier Sixty Chelsea Piers in New…