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23 NOVEMBER 1999 VOLUME 64 ISSUE 5 22 KISLEV 5760 FEATURES Exclusive: Interview With Former Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu Special To The Commentator: PETER SINGER RESPONDS To Rabbi Tendler's Article YC Dean's Office: Raising Standards, Eyebrows HEBREW EXEMPTION EXAMS TERMINATED The Jewish Studies Faculty has decided to stop administering the Hebrew and Jewish History exemption tests to students of Yeshiva College and Sy Syms School of Business. Their decision will take affect after the Spring Semester of 1999-2000. Full Story New Ownership for Grandma's Cookie Jar TOP STORIES Syms Dean, Nierenberg Announces Retirement Dean of Yeshiva's Sy Syms School of Business, Dr. Harold Nierenberg, last week announced his retirement.Full Story Yeshiva Administrators Silence Student Publications According to senior security officials at Stern College for Women, Jeffery Socol, Director of Facilities Management, instructed his staff to remove copies of The Commentator and The Observer from distribution centers located throughout the Midtown Campus. The removal of the papers coincides with Stern College's Open House for potential admissions candidates.Full Story YU Museum Set to Move Off-Campus For yea rs considered a perennial uptown campus staple, the Yeshiva University Museum is set to move downtown this coming February. The Museum will become one of five institutions to occupy the new Center for Jewish History, a facility devoted to Jewish scholarship, located at 5th Avenue and 16th Street. Full Story DON'T MISS THE EVENT OF THE YEAR ALSO IN THIS ISSUE Netanyahu Delivers Series of Lectures to Yeshiva Undergraduates Yeshiva Student Makes Beatles Classic Again Hofstra Student Newspaper Publishes Denial of Holocaust Where Is WYUR? ...AND MUCH MORE! The Yeshiva University Community extends its condolences to Dean David Himber on the loss of his mother Shirley, May the Almighty comfort you among the mourners of Zion and Jerusalem. The Yeshiva University Community extends its condolences to Mrs. Adele Judas on the loss of her mother, Gitle Bogner. May the Almighty comfort you among the mourners of Zion and Jerusalem. Express your opinion! Click here to send a letter to the editors. All content is copyright © 1999 Yeshiva University Commentator. WEBSITE FEEDBACK PLESE CONTACT: WEBMASTER@YUCOMMENTATOR.COM