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Volume 67, Issue 7
Two
IHP Apartments Burglarized in Only Ten Days
Students
Demand Safety, New Dorm
by Kevin Cyrulnik
For the second time in two weeks, one of Yeshiva’s undergraduate Independent Housing Program (IHP) apartments was burglarized in broad daylight. Although Yeshiva administrators anticipate that they will, indeed, catch the perpetrators, the victimized students, as well as many of their peers, are not in the least bit content with the current situation. “We need a new dorm and it’s as simple as that,” said one of the victims.
Student
Complaints Lead to Computer Science Professor’s Dismissal
Hudes’ Teaching Abilities Debated by Students
by Kevin Cyrulnik
Several weeks ago, Computer Science Department Chair Dr. Bhaskar Sengupta informed Adjunct Professor Dana Hudes that he would not be receiving his course assignments for the spring 2003 semester. Although Hudes was originally told that he would be teaching in the spring, vociferous student criticism apparently swayed the Yeshiva administration to reconsider their verbal commitment.
Chanukah
Concert Hailed A Success
by Aaron Kraft
Despite the bitter cold, treacherous sleet, and heavy snow on Thursday night, December 5, scores of people from around the greater metropolitan area journeyed to Yeshiva for the highly anticipated annual Chanukah concert.
Chagiga
Mixes Torah, Song, and Dance
By Alan Goldsmith
The Student Organization of Yeshiva delivered to students once more with its annual Chanukah Chagiga, which took place in the Main Beis Medrash on Tuesday, December 3. Highlighted by the music of Neshoma Orchestra – which was paid to provide an eleven piece band but at some points actually expanded to fourteen pieces – the Chagiga featured large and small circles of students and rabbeim throughout the emptied-out room. Food was also provided for revelers in the Zysman Hall basement.
Putting
Judaism in Perspective
by Alex Grange
On Monday, December 9, Rabbi Dr. Jeffery R. Woolf, Senior Lecturer in Talmud at Bar Ilan University, addressed the relationship between history and halacha to a small group of Yeshiva students. This was the second lecture in this year’s Torah U’Madda series.
MacPAC
Aims To Politicize Yeshiva
AIPAC’s Political Leadership Director Successfully
Motivates Students
by Jonathan Richton
Pro-Israel activists on Yeshiva’s campus recently had the opportunity to hear from Jonathan Kessler, the Director of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee’s (AIPAC) Political Leadership Program and perhaps the premier man in America affecting the perception of the U.S.-Israel relationship on college campuses nationwide.
Temporary
Study Hall Opens in Time for Finals
Student Life Committee Finally Comes Through
by Ariel Brandwein
Since the Yeshiva University Museum vacated the northern first floor wing of the Pollack Library over a year ago, the fate of the surplus space has been highly coveted and yet strangely beyond anyone’s grasp – including its de facto proprietor, Facilities Management. Despite its elusiveness, virtually every segment of the University has harbored some hopes of getting its hands on...
Night
of Controversy, New Thoughts on Israel at Yeshiva
by Yoni Gross
On November 6, Yeshiva’s Israel Club brought in a new face in the Israeli political scene. Approximately sixty students came to hear Shmuel Sackett, a new member of the Likud Central committee, as well as a founder and director of the “Manhigut Yehudit” (Jewish Leadership) faction of the Likud party and the Zo Artzeinu organization, a protest and civil disobedience movement aimed at ending the Oslo peace process. Sackett, along with his faction’s candidate for Likud party chairman, Moshe Feiglin, is part of...
Left-Wing
Israeli Speaker Draws Only Small Crowd
by Alexander Chester
Despite an increase of on-campus Israel activism in recent weeks, including the beginning of a petition-signing campaign by MacPAC and a donation effort, one Israel-related event at Yeshiva failed to draw much attention last week.
Yeshiva
Scrambles to Find Replacement as Belmont’s Retirement Looms
by Alexander Chester
Several weeks ago, Director of the Office of Student Finance Jean Belmont notified superiors that after seven years at Yeshiva and two years in her current post that she would be retiring at the end of the 2002 calendar year. Yet a week past her self-imposed retirement date, Belmont is still situated in her Furst Hall office, and she could be for months to come as the school scrambles to find a replacement.
Judge
Rules on Shapiro-Persky Case
Both Sides
Claim Victory
by Alexander Chester
Both Pinky Shapiro and Rick Ostrove, the lawyer representing Sy Syms School of Business Professor Diane Persky, have claimed victory this week after Federal Judge Lawrence M. McKenna delivered his ruling on the long-standing court case involving the two.
Young
Addresses Students at Annual Book Project
by Yoni Gross
In the aftermath of September 11, Yeshiva has designated the topic of this year’s annual book project as “Writing in the Wake of Trauma: Responses and Responsibility.” For the semester’s final event, James E. Young, Professor of English and Judaic Studies at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, visited Yeshiva on December 4 to discuss his writings, particularly The Texture of Memory, which won the National Jewish Book Award in 1994.
No Yeshiva Mission to Israel - Attempted Student Effort Fails Due to Lack of Funding
by Alan Goldsmith
A year after Operation Torah Shield II brought 280 Yeshiva students to Israel, as well as moral and financial support to its citizens, many students just assumed that an Operation Torah Shield III, which would again occur during intersession, was a foregone conclusion. Due to financial and organizational complications, however, the planned trip was cancelled.
Iggy’s Buys Out KSD in New
Attempt for Successful Meat Restaurant Uptown
by Alexander Chester
The kosher food market around Wilf Campus has been in flux over the last two years, and things just got more confusing, as Papa Iggy’s Deli recently bought out Kosher Deli Sub and opened a larger store on Amsterdam Avenue last week.
Halacha
Versus The Modern Man
by Avi Zohar
Jewish law dictates that a man who wishes to divorce his wife is required to give her a get, a document of divorce, in order for the divorce to be legally recognized. Refusing to provide one leaves woman in a state of limbo, as they are forbidden to remarry without one. A woman ensnared in this trap is referred to in rabbinical literature as an aguna.
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