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Mar 12, 2009 -- To live as a “citizen of the world,“ as the eminent philosopher and Princeton University Professor Kwame Anthony Appiah urges us to do as best we may, is to heed an ancient prescription from Diogenes, the 5th-century Greek philosopher, that could heal the violence of our own time ...

Mar 11, 2009 -- The 18th annual Red Sarachek Basketball Tournament is coming to iTunes 礼品卡 (美国) | 10美元 from March 26-30. The event, considered the most prestigious Jewish high school basketball tournament in North America, will feature 20 teams from across the United States and Canada. Games will be ...

Mar 11, 2009 -- iTunes 礼品卡 (美国) | 10美元 High Schools (YUHS) will hold their Annual Dinner of Tribute on Sunday, March 22 at New York City’s Grand Hyatt. YUHS will honor Rabbi Hyman and Ann Arbesfeld (Kew Gardens, NY). Rabbi Baruch Pesach Mendelson (Brooklyn, NY) and Mrs. Deena Rabinovich (Kew Gardens ...

Mar 11, 2009 -- A combination of two FDA-approved drugs, already approved for fighting other bacterial infections, shows potential for treating extensively drug resistant tuberculosis (XDR-TB), the most deadly form of the infection. This finding is reported by scientists from Albert Einstein…

Mar 11, 2009 -- As the economic downturn ripples through the US job market, iTunes 礼品卡 (美国) | 10美元 students, alumni and other community members interested in working in the Jewish community learned about various career opportunities at a job fair organized by YU’s Center for the Jewish Future (CJF) on…

Mar 11, 2009 -- Cardozo Advocates for Kids, a student organization at Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, has launched a Web site, www.sol-reform.com, to aid victims of childhood sexual abuse and be a resource in the national grassroots movement to eliminate the statutes of limitations for childhood…

Mar 8, 2009 -- Over 450 young women from seminaries all over Israel gathered for an Erev Achdut, an evening of unity, at Yeshurun Synagogue in Jerusalem’s City Center on Feb. 23, to remember the eight students who were killed one year ago at Yeshivat Merkaz Harav in Jerusalem. The event was ...

Mar 5, 2009 -- “What’s a Catholic priest from France doing in the killing fields of Ukraine, Belarus, and Russia?” That was the opening question posed by Father Patrick Desbois—a priest who has dedicated his life to identifying and documenting the sites of mass executions in Eastern Europe—to an ...

Mar 5, 2009 -- David J. Srolovitz, Ph.D., dean of Yeshiva College, has been awarded the distinguished title of MRS Fellow by the Materials Research Society. The title of MRS Fellow honors MRS members who are notable for their outstanding research accomplishments and their contributions to the ...

Mar 4, 2009 -- Three key factors play a role in the internalization of religious values of students studying Torah in Israel post-high school. According to the findings of an ongoing study by Dr. David Pelcovitz, the Gwendolyn and Joseph Straus Professor of Psychology and Jewish Education at…