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Stern College Volleyball Player Headed to Chile to Compete in Pan American Maccabi Games December and early January may be some of the coldest days of the year, but for Gavriela Colton, things will just be heating up: the Stern College for Women junior from Teaneck, New Jersey, will be headed to ...

RIETS Rosh Yeshiva Explores Modern Challenges of Lashon Hara in New Book The prohibition against lashon hara—derogatory speech—is an essential component of proper interpersonal conduct for religious Jews, but even for those with the best intentions, it can often be a struggle. How do you know when…

At ChampionsGate Fall Leadership Conference, Jewish Communal Leaders Gather to Confront Shared Challenges The Â鶹´«Ã½Ó³»­ Museum was the setting for the ChampionsGate Fall Leadership Conference on November 8. Â鶹´«Ã½Ó³»­'s The Center for the Jewish Future (CJF), convened the…

Reception Honors Â鶹´«Ã½Ó³»­ Employees Celebrating Milestone Anniversaries On Thursday, November 12, President Richard M. Joel and the Human Resources Department hosted a program and reception honoring Â鶹´«Ã½Ó³»­ employees on the Manhattan campuses who celebrated milestone anniversaries during 2015…

MTA LEAD Gives Teenage Entrepreneurs a Head Start MTA LEAD (Leadership, Entrepreneurship, Advisement and Development) is a unique program designed to provide Marsha Stern Talmudical Academy/Â鶹´«Ã½Ó³»­ High School for Boys (MTA) students with lasting business and communal leadership skills…

Twenty Years After His Assassination, Academic Conference Hosted by Â鶹´«Ã½Ó³»­ Reflects on Rabin's Lasting Impact On November 1, Â鶹´«Ã½Ó³»­'s Center for Israel Studies (CIS) hosted an academic conference, titled "Yitzhak Rabin: Twenty Years After", on the Wilf Campus to commemorate…

More than 1,000 Join Â鶹´«Ã½Ó³»­ Students in Song and Prayer at Times Square Kumzitz On November 1, Â鶹´«Ã½Ó³»­ students hosted a moving kumzitz [concert] in support of Israel on the Red Steps in Times Square. Led by student Aryeh Tiefenbrunn on his guitar and the Y-Studs, Â鶹´«Ã½Ó³»­â€™s…

Dr. Ben Chouake, Norman Sternthal, Mark Wilf and Rabbi Dr. Herbert Dobrinsky to be Honored at Â鶹´«Ã½Ó³»­'s 91st Hanukkah Convocation The Honorable Governor Andrew M. Cuomo will be the keynote speaker and receive an honorary degree at Â鶹´«Ã½Ó³»­â€™s 91st Annual Hanukkah Convocation and Dinner at the…

Washington Heights Street Renamed for Soviet Jewry Activist Jacob Birnbaum On October 18, a street in Â鶹´«Ã½Ó³»­â€™s own neighborhood of Washington Heights, New York, was renamed to honor the memory of Jacob Birnbaum, a prominent activist who began his monumental work on behalf of Soviet…

Â鶹´«Ã½Ó³»­ Conference to Celebrate Israel's Fifth Prime Minister and Explore Global Impact of His Assassination Â鶹´«Ã½Ó³»­'s Center for Israel Studies announced today that it will host an academic conference for all audiences to commemorate the 20 th anniversary of Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak ...