Frustrated by complaints from students and faculty about the noise emanating from construction of the Glueck Center, YC is looking diligently to find quiet classrooms. In fact, the YC Dean's Office has worked with the Registrar's Office to find space in all Wilf Campus buildings, including areas occupied by Yeshiva University High School for Boys.
The Yeshiva University Student Medical Ethics Society (MES) in conjunction with the Center for Jewish Future (CJF) hosted their second annual halakha and medical ethics conference last Sunday, October 14. This year, it was The Fuld Family Conference on Halakha and Fertility Medicine, and the topic was fertility, modern medicine and Jewish law.
Rabbi Shlomo Amar, Israel's sephardic chief rabbi, graced Yeshiva with his presence this past Monday. The chief Rabbi spent the day touring and speaking at both the Wilf and Beren campuses. Rav Amar arrived early Monday morning and was received by Yeshiva University President Richard M.
For the first time ever, Yeshiva University participated in National Depression Screening Day, which took place on Thursday, October 11. For three and a half hours Thursday afternoon, staff members from the Counseling Center manned tables in the Rubin lobby passing out surveys that might indicate varying levels of depression and anxiety in the survey takers.
On the second day of Sukkot, The Torah world lost Rabbi Shimon Eider, posek and author of note. Although spending the majority of his life in Lakewood, NJ where he studied under Rav Aharon Kotler zt'l, he began his academic career at Yeshiva University's BTA high school in Brooklyn and then graduated from Yeshiva College with a degree in psychology in 1960.
For the past four years, the Presidential Fellowship at Yeshiva University has taken the best and brightest graduates from the Wilf and Beren campuses and given them year-long positions working within the framework of the University administration under faculty mentors.