The Many Travails Of YCDS
“There! That’s how I feel!” Max Prince yells as he punches a hole in the wall of the writing room of his hit TV show. Max Prince is of course played by the sophomore actor Tani Isaac, and the scene is from Yeshiva College Dramatics Society’s (YCDS) Spring production of Laughter on the 23rd Floor, written by Neil Simon, directed by Lin Snyder.
The ‘Shalem College’ Challenge
Unlike America, Israel has no liberal arts universities. All of its colleges are vocational, intended to teach job-specific skills only. That is, until April this year, when the Shalem Center formally filed an application to open Shalem College, Israel’s first institution authorized to grant liberal arts B.A. degrees.
Aaron Koller Focuses on Biblical Contexts, Urges Students to Recognize Their Own Contexts
For Dr. Aaron Koller, the broad definitions and possibilities of working in the field of Bible Studies combine with the unique qualities of this institution to make his job extremely enjoyable. Koller has been at Yeshiva University for eleven of the last thirteen years, though only the last several of them have been from the front of the classroom.
Issue 9
Seven things we like and dislike
It was a year of celebrations, of new faces and new facades, a year of visitors and research ventures. But it was also a year of sad passings, of controversies and departures of professors and administrators. And now, as we near the end, let us reflect for a moment on what has transpired through the vantage point of the newspaper that chronicled the contents of the year.
A look at the “rules” surrounding the selection of a Valedictorian and admission to Semikhah Honors
Rachel Golian (SCW ’10) Takes Home First Place Award
This year’s Mock Trial team, the first to represent Yeshiva in six years, went 3-5 in the American Mock Trial Association (AMTA) tournament at Yale University in February, with victories over UConn, Wesleyan, and Dartmouth. But if you talk to several members of the team, their biggest victory of all was forming the team itself.
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