Commentator Editor-in-Chief and graduating senior Michael Cinnamon has appointed Simeon Botwinick as The Commentator's next Editor-in-Chief.
Faisal Shahzad, now in custody on charges of terrorism, drove a black SUV filled with explosives to Times Square on Saturday, April 30. Had the car-bomb gone off successfully, it would have caused serious damage and casualties.
As part of the Dr. Marcia Robbins-Wilf Scholar-in-Residence Program, Yeshiva University held an event on May 3 entitled “What to do about Iran's Nuclear Program?” The event was run by the prolific Professor Bryan R. Daves of the Yeshiva College Political Science Department.
On Monday night, May 3, a unique workshop took place with a group of select YU students, together with fifth-grade students from the Washington Heights community. Named “The Heights Art Initiative,” the event featured the distinguished YU Museum artist, J.T. Waldman.
Under the auspices of the CJF, Yeshiva University has recently launched its much-anticipated Speakers Bureau on April 21, 2010.
After months of intense preparation, the six finalists for the 2010 Annual Sy Syms Business Plan Competition presented their business plans in front of an assorted audience of students, staff, and a panel of faculty-judges on Wednesday May 5th in Weissberg Commons (Belfer Hall, Wilf Campus).
On April 26, Jared Kushner, principal owner of Kushner Companies and publisher
of the New York Observer (and son-in-law of Donald Trump) spoke to YU students.
Yeshiva College is proud to welcome a new faculty member, Professor David Lavinsky, who will be teaching two classes in the fall. One is an upper level class called “Medieval Genres,” and the other is a Freshman Honors Seminar on conversion and religious identity.
The first annual YU 3-on-3 Basketball Tournament benefiting the Koby Mandell Foundation and Haifa Hoops for Kids took place on Lag Ba’omer, May 2, 2010.