Schachter, Y.U. dean, warns about reporting sex abuses cases

Published on March 15, 2013

Rabbi Hershel Schachter, a dean at Yeshiva University, has warned against reporting uncorroborated sex abuse allegations to police.

Yeshiva University ranks as 4th most popular U.S. college

Published on February 2, 2012

Yeshiva University is the fourth most popular school in the country, according to a recent U.S. News and World Report ranking.

Shh! Don’t talk about sex at Yeshiva University

Published on December 13, 2011

It wasn’t your typical college sex scandal. There were no accusations of molestation, inappropriate faculty-student relationships or date rape charges.

YU study finds correlation between services, optimism

Published on November 11, 2011

A new study by Yeshiva University found a correlation between regular attendance at religious services and an optimistic outlook.

YU student to donate compensation award to terror victims

Published on September 14, 2011

A Yeshiva University student who was the victim of anti-Semitism while an exchange student at St. Andrews University in Scotland will donate his compensation award to victims of terrorism.

Richard Joel, Maccabeats in LA for first YU Shabbaton

Published on February 24, 2011

With 1,500 alumni in the Los Angeles area, including many rabbinic and educational leaders, Yeshiva University opened its first office here in September hoping to both raise YU’s visibility and offer its services and expertise to the local Orthodox community. “We want to be able to provide our extensive resources as a large university and as the unique institution that we are to the community at large,” said Sarah Emerson Helfand, an attorney and YU alumna who moved from New York to direct YU’s West Coast regional office.

Man With a Plan

By Joe Berkofsky
Published on December 12, 2002

Students from Hillel: The Foundation for Jewish Campus Life gathered one night during the recent General Assembly of the Jewish federation system and confronted Richard Joel.

The students peppered Joel, Hillel's president and international director, with criticism that events during the United Jewish Communities' annual gathering had condescended to them.

Back to Center for YU?

By Gary Rosenblatt
Published on December 12, 2002

Will Richard Joel -- elected Dec. 5 as Yeshiva University's (YU) new president -- redirect the flagship institution of modern Orthodoxy from its rightward move of the past several decades back toward the center?

That's a question being asked in the halls of YU and throughout the community at the culmination of a long and difficult search process for a successor to Dr. Norman Lamm, who has guided the institution since 1976.