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Giving High School Students the College EDge

By Rebecca Garber • Published: February 11, 2015 • Comment ()

If you were in Furst Hall on Wednesday, December 3rd or passed by the Sky Caf on Friday, December 5th, you may have noticed your fellow YU students engaged in conversation with high school students from the George Washington YABC and the Bronx Community High School. Your fellow YU students were participating in two mentorship […]

Charedi Women Speak Up about “No Representation, No Vote” Campaign

By Naamah Schwartz • Published: February 11, 2015 • Comment ()

In early December, a campaign was launched to guarantee a spot for Charedi women on the electoral lists of the Charedi United Torah Judaism and Shas parties in the Knesset. The “No Representation, No Vote” campaign, led by Charedi female activists, calls for the leadership of Charedi parties to reserve at least one spot on […]

Einstein Merger Finally Pending as Students Take a Stand

By Observer Staff • Published: February 3, 2015 • Comment ()
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Both Montefiore Medical Center’s and Yeshiva University’s Boards announced today that they have voted unanimously on the basic terms of a merger between the two institutions. This announcement follows a rally that took place this morning at Albert Einstein College of Medicine, where Einstein’s dean Allen Spiegel announced to two-hundred students that an agreement between […]

Cuts to the Speech Department Spring 2015

By Shalva Ginsparg • Published: January 2, 2015 • Comment ()
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On the first day of class, Professor Reuven Russell often jokingly asks students how much they paid to get a seat in Speech 1010. A required course for students of all majors, Speech 1010 is notoriously known to provoke registration anxiety, as slots can fill up quickly and seniors who face scheduling conflicts are forced […]

10 Smart Foods to Give Your a Brain Boost

By Madalyn Sarafzadeh • Published: January 2, 2015 • Comment ()

That time of the year that has finally come to an end: finals. The jam-packed libraries on the Stern and Wilf campuses, high stress levels, the seven cups of coffee you consumed in order to finish that eleven page political science term paper that seemed like it would never be finished, and those stares that […]

Light up the Nights! Chanukah 2014 on Campus

By Naamah Schwartz • Published: January 2, 2015 • Comment ()

A Candy Land Chagigah, the Tac-Soy Shabbaton, and other events arranged by TAC and SCWSC helped bring the Chanukah 2014 spirit to the Beren Campus. On the Tuesday of the first night of Chanukah, a small group of women attended a lunch Chabura organized by the Beit Midrash Committee and led by a GPATS student. […]

Details behind Einstein-Montefiore Terminated Memorandum: It Is Not the End

By Sara Olson • Published: December 24, 2014 • Comment ()
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The announcement of the termination of the Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) between Albert Einstein College of Medicine and Montefiore Medical Center on December 10th was a disconcerting turn of events. The MOU, signed this past July, proposed a framework for Einstein and Montefiore to move forward in negotiations toward the creation of an agreement that […]

The Ins and Outs of This Year’s Annual Hanukkah Convocation and Dinner

By Observer Staff • Published: December 18, 2014 • Comment ()

On the evening of December 14th,  seven-hundred-fifty people ventured to the Waldorf Astoria in New York City for Yeshiva University’s 90th Annual Hanukkah Convocation and Dinner. Keynote speaker, former President George W. Bush, received an honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters from President Joel before addressing the packed room and the students who, after winning a […]

Wondering Where Your Caf Money Went? We Have An Answer

By Abigail Bachrach • Published: December 18, 2014 • Comment ()

When the acid green numbers appeared on the screen, Leora Litwin (SCW ‘16) thought her caf card’s remaining balance was impossible. “I was shocked that two-hundred plus of my dollars had disappeared,” she says. With over two weeks left before the semester completes, her balance was suddenly under $50. Where did Litwin’s dwindled funds go? […]

Students Respond to the Har Nof Attack

By Sara Olson • Published: December 11, 2014 • Comment ()
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Tuesday, November 18th, 2014. Yet another day to live on in infamy, another tragedy to add to our cup of sorrows, already overflowing. Students of Stern College woke up to the gut-wrenching news that two arab terrorists, armed with guns, knives and axes, entered the Kehillat Bnei Torah shul in Har Nof during Shacharit, severely […]