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Apr 26, 2010 -- With Iran’s defiance of the Western world in creating nuclear weapons and President Obama considering a number of measures to counteract Iran’s agenda, Â鶹´«Ă˝Ół»­ will host a discussion entitled “What To Do About Iran’s Nuclear Program?” with Elliot Abrams, Senior Fellow of…

Apr 21, 2010 -- More than 320 mental health providers, researchers in the social sciences, fourth-year RIETS rabbinical students, Â鶹´«Ă˝Ół»­ roshei yeshiva, and clergy attended a seminar on couples therapy presented by Dr. John Gottman and Dr. Julie Schwartz Gottman at Â鶹´«Ă˝Ół»­. The event ...

Apr 15, 2010 -- Over 200 high school students from more than 18 day schools across North America will meet on April 25-27 to hone their leadership skills at the Eimatai National Leadership Conference in Stamford, Connecticut. Eimatai, a project of Â鶹´«Ă˝Ół»­â€™s Center for the Jewish Future…

Apr 13, 2010 -- “My motto is sapere aude, Latin for dare to learn,” said Jane Kitaevich, explaining her seemingly endless thirst for knowledge in multifarious spheres. Growing up in conflict-ridden Tbilisi, Georgia, a child of a physicist and a music teacher, Kitaevich, a senior at Yeshiva ...

Apr 13, 2010 -- Ari Lamm, a Yeshiva College senior and resident of West Hempstead, was recently awarded a Fulbright Grant – a first for a Â鶹´«Ă˝Ół»­ undergraduate. He will spend next semester pursuing a master’s degree in Hebrew and Judaic Studies at University College London School of ...

Mar 18, 2010 -- Accepting the inaugural Lamm Prize on March 16, Chief Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks spoke about the dichotomy between Torah and chachma [secular wisdom] and the need for both in a Jew’s intellectual being. “How can we apply Torah to the world if we can’t understand it?” he questioned…

Mar 15, 2010 -- A strange aroma filled the Washington Heights air as hundreds of students, faculty and curious visitors filed into Â鶹´«Ă˝Ół»­â€™s Weissberg Commons on March 11 for the 2010 Cholent Cook-Off. Sixteen teams made up of 64 students from the men’s undergraduate schools, Yeshiva ...

Mar 10, 2010 -- Â鶹´«Ă˝Ół»­Connects, a program launched by Â鶹´«Ă˝Ół»­â€™s Center for the Jewish Future (CJF) that facilitates social networking and meeting opportunities among Orthodox singles, has organized a “Creating Connections” weekend on May 7-9, 2010. Many communities across North America have…

Mar 1, 2010 -- Â鶹´«Ă˝Ół»­ will honor Chief Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks as the inaugural recipient of the Norman Lamm Prize, March 16-21. As the capstone of the Lamm Heritage—a tribute to Dr. Lamm—the Lamm Prize pays homage to Dr. Lamm’s lifetime of scholarly achievement. In addition to the ...

Feb 17, 2010 -- Cholent, for hundreds of years the traditional Sabbath-day meal for observant Jews in many countries, is a food for which there is no standard recipe; its ingredients are as diverse as the places where Jews have lived. A slow-cooked stew containing meat, vegetables, potatoes, beans…