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Be a part of the annual Chanukah Concert extravaganza! Limited tickets still available at www.jewisheventtickets.com or by calling (917)-608-6218. Prices start at $25, with a special student rate of $18 until midnight tonight (12/16).   To order with...

By: Jonathan Schwab

Among Yeshiva College’s psychology students, Dr. Jenny Isaacs’s smiling face and warm demeanor is no secret – but students who have not chanced upon her classes might not know about this exceptionally friendly professor. On campus since ...

By: Sammy Steiner

Sirena Rubinoff was born in the island of Guam while her father was stationed on the naval base there, in 1985. Her family later moved to San Diego, California and became Baalei Teshuva in the late 1990’s....

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On September 15, the Center for the History and Philosophy of Science held its inaugural event. Dr. Philip Kitcher, the John Dewey Professor of Philosophy and James R. Barker Professor of Contemporary Civilization at Columbia University, gave a lecture en...

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On Thursday, September 17th, the Wilf Campus community marked the 222nd anniversary of the ratification of the U.S. Constitution with a lecture given by Dr. Murray Dry. Professor Dry is the Charles A. Dana Professor of Political Science at Middlebury Coll...

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During the week following Succot vacation, representatives from Yavneh Olami will come to Yeshiva to deliver an information session about their Summer Internship Program (SIP). The program affords college students the rare, valuable opportunity to spend a...

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The Jim Joseph Foundation of San Francisco, California recently awarded YU a $4,000,000 grant to support the university’s training of future Jewish educators. With the grant, YU will create the Jim Joseph Foundation Jewish Educator Continuum, an ini...

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At the dedication of the Jacob and Dreizel Glueck Center for Jewish Study on September 13th, President Richard Joel announced Dr. Henry Kressel’s appointment as Chairman of the Board of Trustees. Dr. Kressel works as a partner and senior managing di...

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Student Pulse  Food Services How many meals a week do you eat in one of the Wilf Campus cafeterias? 0   30.3% 1-3   9.2% 4-7   8.3% 8-11   31.2% 12+   21.1%     What...

By: Rafi Blumenthal

“Happy happy oh my friends...” It is with these gleefully triumphant lyrics that Phish commence their first album released in five years – and they could not be more apropos. In 2004, following the release of their mediocre Undermind, Ph...

By: Jonathan Schwab

YU has long had a history of the spreading of ideas among students and the subsequent discussion, challenges, and arguments that follow them. This process is, in essence, dialogue. The Commentator serves this function in some ways, as does Kol Hamevaser, ...

By: Ron Nahshon

With the 2009-2010 school year well under way, many students have already begun to habituate themselves to a particular eating schedule based on when and where their classes are held. It is no secret that the demands of a dual-curriculum schedule do not l...

By: Jonathan Schwab

“Prometheus, Pallas from on high, / Down to earth a vessel brought, / With nectar of the heavens fraught…” When the poet Johann Wolfgang Van Goethe wrote these eighteenth-century lines, he almost certainly spoke of TWIZZLERS Twerpz tang...

By: Ira Jaskoll

I have always been a crazy Yankee fan. When I heard about the Yankees Fantasy Camp and the opportunity to be a New York Yankee for a week, play in the Yankees spring training facility in Tampa, Florida, be coached by Yankee Legends, and play against them ...

By: Laurie Davis

Unless you spent your summer backpacking in Siberia, you probably heard at least someof the news about the state of the economy and the job market. Although forecasters are expecting the job loss declines to slow, that doesn’t mean it’ll ...

By: Tani Cohn

As graduation nears for many Yeshiva students, the search for an occupation post-college begins to take center stage. Although many opt to enroll in graduate school immediately upon their departure from YU, some take jobs or travel, while others take time...

By: Sammy Steiner

The doors of John F. Kennedy International Airport automatically spread apart before me, tempting me onto the next stage of my journey. Free from finals and summer courses, and several months after my first email to the contact us link on Nefesh B’N...

By: Michael Siev

 This summer, an unusual fear swept the nation: people were worried about catching the flu. This was no ordinary flu, but a new strain of flu, one that was very infectious, one against which no one seemed to have any immunity. The results are common ...

By: Roni Zemelman

 On Sunday September 13th, Yeshiva welcomed a crowd of over 700 people to the celebration and dedication of the state-of-the-art 60,000 square foot Glueck Center for Jewish studies.   ...

By: Ariel Peleg

Students walked into YU cafeterias across all campuses this semester to find Coca Cola brand beverages offered nearly exclusively over other brand drinks. Under a five-year contract with Coca Cola, YU will no longer be selling Pepsi or Snapple products on...