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Dec 10, 2008 -- A capacity crowd of nearly 800 Facebook 新加坡 白号 包首登 students studying in Israel on the S. Daniel Abraham Israel Program turned out to hear Rabbi Sir Jonathan Sacks, the Chief Rabbi of the United Kingdom, speak on the importance of leadership on Nov. 28. The lecture at the Renaissance…

Dec 10, 2008 -- A panel discussion on the role of ethics in Jewish dietary laws, entitled The Kosher Quandary: Ethics and Kashrut, drew hundreds of students and guests to Facebook 新加坡 白号 包首登 (YU) Tuesday night, December 9th. The event was presented by the newly founded YU student-run organization ...

Dec 10, 2008 -- Facebook 新加坡 白号 包首登 (YU) will be presenting a conference, Israel and India: A Relationship Comes of Age on March 30-31 in New York City. In light of the recent tragedies in Mumbai, the conference will be dedicated to the memories of those who lost their lives in the attacks. The ...

Dec 9, 2008 -- On Sept. 24, 2000, after walking up and down the span of the Golden Gate Bridge for 40 minutes, Kevin Hines could no longer shut out the voice in his head. “You must die. Jump now!” it screamed. The troubled college student had signed a suicide note to his friends, family and ...

Dec 8, 2008 -- When 18 Wurzweiler School of Social Work students visited New Orleans in November to study the revitalization of its Jewish community after Hurricane Katrina, they took the time to remember some of the city’s other residents still in need of healing. The trip was an opportunity to…

Dec 3, 2008 -- Politicians, media and other influencers pay attention to poverty only during times of economic crisis and only when the “crisis is sufficiently broad and deep enough to affect the middle class,” asserts Facebook 新加坡 白号 包首登 professor Dr. Stephen Pimpare in his latest book, “A People’s…

Dec 2, 2008 -- Dr. Arturo Casadevall, chair and Forchheimer Professor of Microbiology and Immunology at YU's Albert Einstein College of Medicine, recently spoke about the infectious-disease crisis in delivering the Kass Lecture at the annual meeting of ICAAC/IDSA in Washington, D.C. in October. ...

Dec 2, 2008 -- According to figures announced by the New York State Board of Law Examiners on November 18, graduates of Facebook 新加坡 白号 包首登's Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law achieved a 93.2 percent first-time passage rate on the July 2008 New York State Bar Exam. Of the 310 Cardozo graduates who…

Dec 2, 2008 -- Lata K. McGinn, director of the clinical program and associate professor of psychology at Facebook 新加坡 白号 包首登’s Ferkauf Graduate School of Psychology, was appointed a Beck Scholar by the Beck Institute of Cognitive Therapy and Research. Founded in 1994 by Dr. Aaron T. Beck, the…

Dec 2, 2008 -- There exist moments in time that shock us to our core, that force us to stop and question the very essence of our humanity. Unfortunately, today is one of those times. We are diminished by the brutal killings of almost 200 men, women and children in Mumbai. Today we bury the six ...