Shoshana Bachrach, an SCW senior from Pittsburgh, lingered outside the MMY Oneg that took place in Stern several weeks ago for longer than might be expected, especially considering that she didn’t even go to MMY. Her motivation? Free pizza. Like many other Stern students, Shoshana is running low on her caf card funds, and so […]
The Center for the Jewish Future’s Aaron and Blanche Schreiber Torah Tours program dispatched close to 300 Yeshiva University students to 60 Jewish communities throughout North America this past Simchat Torah. For over four decades, Torah Tours has sent teams consisting of about 4 to 8 YC and Stern students to enhance the holiday experience […]
While the search for the new provost and successor to current Provost Dr. Morton Lowengrub continues, Dr. Scott Goldberg was appointed Vice Provost for Teaching and Learning this summer. The position, which is brand new, seems an appropriate fit for Dr. Goldberg, who has many innovative ideas about the nature of education in the […]
A letter to the YU community this past March announced Dr. Morton Lowengrub’s decision to step down from his role as Provost of Yeshiva University at the end of the 2013-2014 academic year. In the letter, President Joel revealed that a search committee chaired by Cardozo Dean Matthew Diller would be tasked with finding Dr. […]
When self-described neat-freak and current Observer editor-in-chief Rachel Benaim decided to clean the Observer office in Brookdale 20c earlier this year, she was faced with quite the mess. The office, which hadn’t been cleaned for several decades, was overrun with wires, papers, and broken typewriter parts. Three days of cleaning and filing and 500 discarded […]
Everyone’s favorite comic strip is brought to life in the SCDS’s smashing rendition of “You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown.” With a life-size Peanuts crew at the helm of this year’s spring musical, the audience glides through heartwarming vignettes about the travails and joys of childhood. It is truly a remarkable feat that the characters […]
Flood recovery may not be in her job description, but, flashlight in hand, reference librarian Elinor Grumet navigated a darkened, dampened Hedi Steinberg Library to cordon off sections of the library with yellow caution tape (lights couldn’t be turned on for fear of starting an electrical fire). It was about an hour before midnight on […]
Chances are that when you first got to Stern, you were surprised to find that there was no official davening program. Sure, people carve time in their schedules to daven individually before class or even in between classes, but communal prayer—that cornerstone of Jewish religious life—is conspicuously absent. Enter SCW senior and Kol Hamevaser staff-writer […]
For Johan Huibers, Noah’s Ark is more than just one of the most iconic images of the first book of the Bible; it’s the blueprint for the project which has consumed him for close to two decades. In 1992, the Dutch owner of a construction company awoke from a nightmare in which the Netherlands was […]
Opinions Vary on Women and Tefillin Question
After SAR, a Modern Orthodox high school in Riverdale, New York, announced its decision to allow female students to lay Tefillin during school prayer services, the question of whether women should wear Tefillin has taken center stage within and beyond the Orthodox Jewish community. In a January letter to SAR’s parent body, Principal Tully Harcsztark […]