Students Organize Operation Torah Shield III with Record Speed
Lavish Farewell Saw Students Off
by Kevin Cyrulnik

In just six days, three Yeshiva students successfully organized Operation Torah Shield III, a solidarity mission that transported 100 Yeshiva Students to Israel for a week.  The organizers planned the trip with the specific goal of arriving in Israel on Monday, March17, the day President Bush set as his deadline for senior Iraqi officials to relinquish power, to express their solidarity with Israel.

Cardozo Awards Nobel Peace Laureate Desmond Tutu
Presentation Fuels Communal Frustration
by Alan Goldsmith 

Unbeknownst to most undergraduate students, two student groups at Yeshiva’s Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law jointly presented Archbishop Desmond Tutu of South Africa with the International Advocate for Peace Award. Despite Tutu’s wide renown, the presentation has been drawing significant controversy across the Yeshiva spectrum and within the broader Jewish community due to the honoree’s repeated criticism of actions of the Israeli government in recent years.

Two-Week Lecture Series Commemorates Rav’s Yahrzeit
by Tzvi Kahn 

Hundreds of Yeshiva students, faculty, and rabbinic alumni filled the Wilf Campus’s Lamport Auditorium on Tuesday, March 25 for the two inaugural lectures of Yeshiva’s formal commemoration of the tenth yahrzeit of its Rosh Yeshiva par excellence, Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik.  The addresses, delivered by outgoing Yeshiva President Rabbi Dr. Norman Lamm and Rabbi Aharon Lichtenstein, Rabbi Henoch and Sarah D. Berman Chair in Talmud and director of Yeshiva’s Caroline and Joseph S. Gruss Institute in Jerusalem, launched a series of shiurim, remembrances, and appreciations in Rabbi Soloveitchik’s honor by Roshei Yeshiva and university faculty that would continue for the following two weeks.

YUMesorah.com: The Ultimate Student Resource?
by Eli Isak and Zev Nagel

Traditionally, Yeshiva students spend the last few hours before an exam tracking down copies of notes and old tests that have been handed down by students previously in the course.  For many students, though, the search is finally over.