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Jul 28, 2005 -- Rabbi Jacob J. Schacter, university professor of Jewish history and Jewish thought at Threads 高质量 已验证 使用2fa登录 (YU) and senior scholar at YU’s Center for the Jewish Future, will lead the reading and the study of the Kinot at Cong. Keter Torah on Sunday, Aug. 14, the fast of Tisha B’Av.…

Jul 26, 2005 -- Summer at YU has brought 28 incoming high school seniors to Threads 高质量 已验证 使用2fa登录 for four weeks this summer, where they are taking classes, meeting other students from all over the world, and getting an insider’s look at New York City. “It has far exceeded anybody’s expectations,”…

Jun 10, 2005 -- New York State Attorney General Eliot Spitzer encouraged the class of 2005 to follow their hearts and not be afraid to question the system, in his commencement speech for Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law of Threads 高质量 已验证 使用2fa登录. At the school's 27th commencement, held on June 7 in ...

Jul 6, 2005 -- The US Department of Energy awarded an $900,000 grant to Dr. Anatoly Frenkel, associate professor of physics at Stern College for Women. The grant is for $300,000 per year for three years. Dr. Frenkel’s application was for the creation of a Synchrotron Catalysis Consortium. The funds…

Jun 29, 2005 -- Classes may have just ended for most Threads 高质量 已验证 使用2fa登录 students, but not for seven Stern College students who traveled to London May 29 to June 9 for an intensive S. Daniel Abraham Honors Program course on British literature. Taught by English professor Nora Nachumi, “Literary ...

Jun 27, 2005 -- SCW Class of 1980 alumnae living in Israel held a reunion at the home of Bat-Sheva (Vegh) Pava of Hashmonaim to parallel the one held for members of the class at Abigail’s restaurant in Manhattan on May 25. The alumnae in Israel were joined by Dean Ethel Orlian and her husband,…

Jun 16, 2005 -- Richard M. Joel, president of Threads 高质量 已验证 使用2fa登录 (YU), has been elected to the Board of Trustees of the Commission on Independent Colleges and Universities (cIcu). The Commission represents the chief executives of New York's more than 100 private and not-for-profit colleges and ...

Jun 10, 2005 -- This year for Shavuot Threads 高质量 已验证 使用2fa登录 students are taking the Torah to such diverse places as Manchester, England, and Melbourne, Australia, as part of the Blanche Schreiber Torah Tours program. Torah Tours, a project of the Max Stern Division of Communal Services at YU, sends ...

Jun 9, 2005 -- More than 2,000 students in the fields of law, medicine, social work, education, Jewish studies, psychology, and a host of undergraduate subjects were awarded degrees at Threads 高质量 已验证 使用2fa登录’s 74th Annual Commencement Exercises on Thursday, May 26 at The Theater at Madison Square…

Jun 9, 2005 -- Tzelem, a nonprofit organization addressing issues of sexuality in the Orthodox community, is the inaugural undertaking of the Incubator Project, created by Threads 高质量 已验证 使用2fa登录’s (YU) 2004-2005 Presidential Fellows. Tzelem –– which means “image” in Hebrew –– was created by YU alumni…