Articles by Rina Haller

My Birthday: Date or Deadline?

By Rina Haller • Published: May 15, 2016 • Comment ()
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The looming date I used to count towards with unbridled excitement now terrorized my subconscious. Almost biologically, my mind started racing once April 7th was a month away. Consciously I was thinking of the multiple upcoming weddings and simultaneous midterms, but my mind won out sleepless night after sleepless night until I recognized why I […]

Students React, Learn from Annual Stomp Out the Stigma Event

By Rina Haller • Published: May 15, 2016 • Comment ()

The Active Minds Club at Yeshiva University held it annual Stomp Out The Stigma event on the Wilf Campus on May 3rd. The event aims to destigmatize mental illness by highlighting the stigma of its sufferers in the general population and YU student body. Active Minds co-president Chana Miller said, “Stomp Out the Stigma is […]

President Joel Confirms Campus Changes at Town Hall

By Rina Haller • Published: April 12, 2016 • Comment ()
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Richard Joel, president of Yeshiva University, held his last Town Hall meeting of the year at Stern College’s Beren campus last Wednesday. Most notably, President Joel confirmed the rumors that the start of renovations, increased prices, and new rules to campus housing will activate in the fall. Before divulging specific changes being made to the […]

President Joel Confirms Campus Changes at Town Hall

By Rina Haller • Published: April 11, 2016 • Comment ()
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Richard Joel, president of Yeshiva University, held his last Town Hall meeting of the year at Stern College’s Beren campus last Wednesday. Most notably, President Joel confirmed the rumors that the start of renovations, increased prices, and new rules to campus housing will activate in the fall. Before divulging specific changes being made to the […]

Too Little to Graduate, Too Old to Stay

By Rina Haller • Published: February 10, 2016 • Comment ()
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“This is the point where we stop saying you have time to grow up.” These were the words uttered at my high school freshmen orientation seven-and-a-half years ago. Now, they echo with the ipanic of my last college semester. After years as an undergraduate student, can I truly conquer the world as I once believed? […]

Let’s Be Superheroes Together: Why You Should Donate Blood

By Rina Haller • Published: November 15, 2015 • Comment ()

Anticipation ran high as my seventeen-year-old self walked into the Far Rockaway auditorium for my first blood donation. Now four years later my donation locations include the infamous Magen David Adom truck on Ben Yehuda, and of, course Stern’s bi-semester drive run by the NYBC. It’s easy for me to iron up, stick out a […]

Breathe in the Light, Blow Out the Darkness: Rabbi Goldberg on Kids Kicking Cancer

By Rina Haller • Published: November 13, 2014 • Comment ()

Within the past few months, ten individuals have been selected by CNN as the Top 10 CNN Heroes for their work in humanitarian aid or contributions to their community. (Voting for the CNN Hero of the Year, chosen from these 10, is open until this Sunday, November 16th). Among these 10 Heroes is Rabbi Elimelech […]

Lag B’Omer Celebrations: Where to Go?

By Rina Haller • Published: May 12, 2014 • Comment ()

Lag B’omer is a day of abundant celebration across the Jewish world, and each community from near and far has its own unique festivities. So where are the best La B’Omer celebrations this year? While of course many are in New York, check out a few other merriments around the country. Maybe if you’re in […]

Several New Course Offerings for Fall 2014 Despite Budgetary Concerns

By Rina Haller • Published: May 12, 2014 • Comment ()

The course offering list for fall 2014 boasts several new course titles and professors, but also reflects the efforts of the departments to accommodate budgetary concerns and limited resources. “As a department we have been thinking about how to continue to meet the needs of our majors and of all of our students with less faculty […]

LIRR Daf Yomi Shiur Completes Third Cycle

By Rina Haller • Published: April 9, 2014 • Comment ()

On March 31, 2014, the Long Island Railroad (LIRR) Daf Yomi coalition celebrated the completion of its third cycle of Talmud Bavli. This siyum marks twenty-two years of the LIRR shiur.  Now held on two morning trains heading for Penn Station from religious communities such as Far Rockaway and Long Island, the class is run […]