Honors Summer Trip to France a No-Go Due to Anti-Semitism
Alan Goldsmith
Due to a number of recent anti-Semitic incidents in France, including the harassment of Jewish students and the burning of a synagogue, the Yeshiva College Honors Summer Experience has been cancelled for the second year in a row.  While discussion over the feasibility of the program has transpired for several weeks, on Friday, April 5, in the middle of the Pesach break, the decision to cancel was made....

BBs Shot at Window of IHP Apartment
Zalman Abramchik
Cracked windows and shards of glass greeted a Yeshiva student returning from Pesach vacation late Sunday night, April 7th, to his ground-floor Independent Housing Program apartment on the corner of 187th Street and Laurel Hill Terrace, after a shooting that apparently transpired during the holiday vacation....

BMP Rescinds Credit Requirement
Commentator Staff
On Wednesday, April 17th, administrators of the Stone Bais Medrash Program rescinded an earlier memo that had required all SBMP students to register for two Hebraic Studies credits in the upcoming fall semester.  The original memo was the result of a meeting of SBMP Rebbeim and administrators, and was disseminated unilaterally, without the approbation of the Yeshiva College administration....

YC Hires New English Professor
Zalman Abramchik
Completing a nationwide search, Yeshiva has recently added Dr. Paula Geyh, a comparative literature, literary theory and postmodernism specialist, to its full–time tenure-track faculty.  The replacement comes on the heels of English Professor Leo Taubes’ retirement after forty-two years of dedicated service to the English department....

Rabbi Israel Miller Remembered
Commentator Staff
On Monday, April 22, the Yeshiva community gathered in Zysman Hall’s Lamport Auditorium to commemorate the shloshim of former Yeshiva University Senior Vice President Rabbi Dr. Israel Miller.  The event, which was organized by the Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary, lasted two hours and nearly filled the room to its 1200-person capacity....

Yeshiva Observes Yom Kippur Katan
Zev Bannett
On Wednesday, March 13, Yeshiva joined the worldwide Jewish community in observing a day of fasting and prayer as a spiritual countermeasure to the violent situation in Israel.  Aside from urging students to abstain from eating and drinking, the RIETS administration and Yeshiva student leadership organized a lengthened afternoon prayer service in Zysman Hall’s Lamport Auditorium, an event that drew over 1,000 students and faculty....

Astronomy Lecture
Alan Goldsmith
On Tuesday, March 19, Yeshiva students were privileged to receive a lecture on, the life stages of a star delivered by Dr. John Dickel, as part of the American Astronomical Society’s Shapley Lecture Program, which sends experts to lecture at universities that do not have their own astronomy departments....

Iranian Club Goes to Washington
Amir Sadighpour
“A great experience and an unforgettable weekend,” is how one student characterized a weekend in Washington, DC, organized through the Iranian Club and sponsored by a generous donation of the Eli and Diana Zborowski Program in Interdisciplinary Holocaust Studies....

Best and Brightest Honored at Jewish Studies Convocation
Commentator Staff
Eighty students, faculty, and administrators filled Weissberg Commons on April 17th, as Yeshiva University’s Jewish Studies programs honored their brightest students at the annual Honors Convocation....

Yeshiva Expands Summer Offerings, as Adminstration Raises Tuition to $450 Per Credit
Ezri Silver
Featuring expanded course offerings under the instruction of many full-time faculty members, Yeshiva is expecting its largest summer school program in its history as the undergraduate colleges release their revamped summer school schedule. With the influx of returning students from Israel, combined with a substantial tuition increase, the Yeshiva summer experience is expected to have a new look, along with a new price tag....