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www.yu.edu/news/publications Yeshiva College • Stern College for Women • Sy Syms School of Business • Albert Einstein College of Medicine • Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law • Ferkauf Graduate School of Psychology • Wurzweiler School of Social Work • Bernard Revel Graduate School of Jewish Studies • Azrieli Graduate School of Jewish Education and Administration • affiliated Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary / Philip and Sarah Belz School of Jewish Music / YU High Schools • Yeshiva University Museum YU .edu YESHIVA UNIVERSITY NEWS BRIEFS • MARCH 25, 2004 • www.yu.edu ■ THE INAUGURAL EVENT OF YESHIVA University’s new Rabbi Arthur Schneier Center for International Affairs features a lecture by Dr. Richard N. Haass, president of the Council on Foreign Relations, on “The Greater Middle East: Present and Future—Iran, Iraq, Israel/Palestine, and Reform in the Arab World” on March 31, 8 pm, at Park East Synagogue, 164 E. 68th Street. ■ THE YESHIVA UNIVERSITY HIGH SCHOOLS Dinner of Tribute takes place March 25, at The Grand Hyatt, 42nd Street at Grand Central. Honorees are: Erica Jesselson, Lifetime Achievement Award; Rabbi Michael S. Miller, executive vice president of the Jewish Community Relations Council, Distinguished Alumnnus in Community Service Award; Elliot Gibber, Amud HaTorah Award; Harriet Levitt, English department chair at Marsha Stern Talmudical Academy/Yeshiva University High School for Boys, and Rabbi Mordekai Shapiro, Talmud department chair at Samuel H. Wang Yeshiva University High School for Girls, Educators of the Year Award. ■ HYMAN BRAND HEBREW ACADEMY OF Overland Park, KS, defeated YU’s Marsha Stern Talmudical Academy 50-34 in the championship game of the university’s 13th Annual Red Sarachek Invitational Basketball Tournament on March 22 at the Max Stern Athletic Center. The Hyman Brand Rams, number-three seed in the 18-team tourney, controlled the clock and outgunned the MSTA Lions, handing them their first loss of the season. Ryan Almaleh of the Rams was named MVP of the tournament, named for Yeshiva College’s former basketball coach Bernard “Red” Sarachek, 91, a member of the New York City Basketball Hall of Fame, who lives in Florida. The Sarachek Tournament is the second YU-hosted high school athletic competition in which the Marsha Stern Talmudical Academy was a runner-up. The Lions also finished second in the annual Wittenberg wrestling tournament. ■ HUNDREDS OF PEOPLE ATTENDED THE 2004 SOY Seforim Sale, which generated funds earmarked for various student-related events such as holiday cele- brations, lectures, and charity concerts. This year’s sale offered hundreds of books, along with CDs and computer software at discounted prices. “This year, in particular, we traveled to Israel to bring in ship- ments of books from there and do our part in trying to boost their economy,” said Shmulik Rosenberg of the Student Organization of Yeshiva (SOY), sponsor of the sale, which has been an important community event for more than 30 years. ■ UNDERGRADUATE SUMMER HONORS PROGRAM courses have been approved for women in the S. Daniel Abraham Honors Program and men in the Jay and Jeanie Schottenstein Honors Program. Some Abraham Program students will spend summer at the Darling Marine Center in Walpole, ME, working with marine biologists and collecting and analyzing deep-ocean specimens. Some Schottenstein Program students will travel to the United Kingdom for “Understanding the City: London and Dublin.” Will Lee, PhD, director of the Schottenstein Program, says students will learn about the two capitals, and cities in general, by studying literature, art, music, film, politics, geography, and history. In “Creative Writing: Fiction and Poetry,” Schottenstein Program students will focus on urban themes and people. After three weeks of classes in New York taught by Profs. Gillian Steinberg and Nadine Kavanaugh, Schottenstein students will experience London and Dublin firsthand for two weeks with Profs. Lee, Joan Haahr, and Rabbi Dr. Jonathan Rosenblatt. They will walk in the footsteps of Dickens and Joyce, attend performances in London’s West End and the Abbey Theatre, and visit world-class museums and art gal- leries. An “Archaeology in Israel” course will be offered for students in both programs. ■ MORE THAN 100 YESHIVA UNIVERSITY STUDENTS traveled to The Hague, Netherlands, Feb. 23 in support of Israel’s right to build a barrier to defend against attacks from suicide bombers. The YU men and women were accompanied on the trip by Hillel Davis, vice president for university life; Peter Ferrara, director of communications and public affairs; Beth Hait, assistant dean of students for the Israel Henry Beren Campus, and Danny Morris, associate direc- tor of admissions. Outside the UN’s International Court of Justice, the YU group joined members of ZAKA, the Israeli first-responders unit, and students from across Israel in protesting the UN’s considera- tion of the legitimacy of the defense barrier. Stu- dents also visited The Anne Frank House and 300-year-old Portuguese Synagogue in Amsterdam. ■ THE FRISCH SCHOOL OF PARAMUS, NJ, CAME out on top in YU’s Ninth Annual Henry Wittenberg Wrestling Tournament hosted by YU in February. Frisch earned the championship with 233.50 points. MSTA finished second in the 11-school competition with 172 points. Ida Crown Jewish Academy of Chicago rounded out the top three with 167 points. Ari Simchi of Frisch was named Most Outstanding Wrestler of the tournament. The Wittenberg Tourna- ment is named for YU’s first wrestling coach, Henry Wittenberg, who won gold medals in wrestling at both the 1948 and 1952 Olympic Games. ■ SY SYMS SCHOOL OF BUSINESS’S DR. WILLIAM Schwartz Business Plan Competition 2004 awarded prizes to four students and their respective plans: 1st Place—Gideon Shiffman, Human LoCator; 2nd Place—Rosa Aspir & Liana Biniashvili, R & L’s Delectable Cakes, and 3rd Place—Reuben Kerben, Bionex Corporation. The plans grew from the Syms course, Principles of Entrepreneurship, in which 30–40 students wrote business plans. The 10 best plans were narrowed to five by a three-judge panel: Josh S. Weston, chairman emeritus of the Syms Board and former chairman and CEO of Automatic Data Processing Inc.; Gerry L. Golub, chair of American Express Tax & Business Services and sen- ior managing director of its New York operations; and Jay N. Goldberg, senior managing director of Hudson Ventures and founder of the London-based consulting company, OPCENTER, LLC. The final five presented on March 17. Monetary prizes, include $5,000 for First Place, $3,000 for Second Place, and $2,000 for Third Place. ■ EINSTEIN PROFESSOR NIR BARZILAI WAS featured in The New York Times’ “A Conversation With” series on Feb. 24. The article, “Centenarians' Inner Secrets Are Slowly Revealed,” focused on Dr. Barzilai’s ongoing research into aging. “People think I'm searching for the Fountain of Youth,” he is quoted as saying. “I’m not. I’m looking for ways to make old age better.” ■ STERN COLLEGE PROF. DAVID GLASER’S “SEVEN American Composers” course features visits to YU from two prominent American composers this spring: • April 15—Steve Reich. Recently described in a New York Times article as “...among the great composers of the past century,” Mr. Reich has embraced not only aspects of Western classical music but also the structures, harmonies, and rhythms of non-Western and American vernacu- lar music, particularly jazz. • April 27—Mario Davidovsky, Pulitzer-Prize win- ning member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, director of the Koussevitzky Foundation at the Library of Congress, and direc- tor of the Fromm Foundation at Harvard University. He has received fellowships from the Guggenheim and Rockefeller Foundations. ■ THE FIRST ANNUAL YESHIVA UNIVERSITY Behavioral Sciences Research Conference takes place on April 22, 2004 from 1–4 pm at the Ferkauf Grad- uate School of Psychology (Rousso Building, 1st floor, 1165 Morris Park Ave., Bronx). Ferkauf is co-sponsoring the conference with YU’s Wurzweiler
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Yeshiva College • Stern College for Women • Sy Syms School of Business • Albert Einstein College of Medicine • Benjamin N.
Cardozo School of Law • Ferkauf Graduate School of Psychology • Wurzweiler School of Social Work • Bernard Revel Graduate
School of Jewish Studies • Azrieli Graduate School of Jewish Education and Administration • affiliated Rabbi Isaac Elchanan
Theological Seminary / Philip and Sarah Belz School of Jewish Music / YU High Schools • Yeshiva University Museum
YU.eduYESHIVA UNIVERSITY NEWS BRIEFS • MARCH 25, 2004 • www.yu.edu
■ THE INAUGURAL EVENT OF YESHIVA
University’s new Rabbi Arthur Schneier Center forInternational Affairs features a lecture by Dr. RichardN. Haass, president of the Council on ForeignRelations, on “The Greater Middle East: Present andFuture—Iran, Iraq, Israel/Palestine, and Reform inthe Arab World” on March 31, 8 pm, at Park EastSynagogue, 164 E. 68th Street.
■ THE YESHIVA UNIVERSITY HIGH SCHOOLS
Dinner of Tribute takes place March 25, at The GrandHyatt, 42nd Street at Grand Central. Honorees are:Erica Jesselson, Lifetime Achievement Award; Rabbi
Michael S. Miller, executive vice president of theJewish Community Relations Council, DistinguishedAlumnnus in Community Service Award; Elliot
Gibber, Amud HaTorah Award; Harriet Levitt, Englishdepartment chair at Marsha Stern TalmudicalAcademy/Yeshiva University High School for Boys,and Rabbi Mordekai Shapiro, Talmud departmentchair at Samuel H. Wang Yeshiva University HighSchool for Girls, Educators of the Year Award.
■ HYMAN BRAND HEBREW ACADEMY OF
Overland Park, KS, defeated YU’s Marsha SternTalmudical Academy 50-34 in the championshipgame of the university’s 13th Annual Red SarachekInvitational Basketball Tournament on March 22 atthe Max Stern Athletic Center. The Hyman BrandRams, number-three seed in the 18-team tourney,controlled the clock and outgunned the MSTALions, handing them their first loss of the season.Ryan Almaleh of the Rams was named MVP of thetournament, named for Yeshiva College’s formerbasketball coach Bernard “Red” Sarachek, 91, amember of the New York City Basketball Hall ofFame, who lives in Florida. The SarachekTournament is the second YU-hosted high schoolathletic competition in which the Marsha SternTalmudical Academy was a runner-up. The Lionsalso finished second in the annual Wittenbergwrestling tournament.
■ HUNDREDS OF PEOPLE ATTENDED THE 2004 SOY
Seforim Sale, which generated funds earmarked forvarious student-related events such as holiday cele-brations, lectures, and charity concerts. This year’ssale offered hundreds of books, along with CDs andcomputer software at discounted prices. “This year,in particular, we traveled to Israel to bring in ship-ments of books from there and do our part in tryingto boost their economy,” said Shmulik Rosenbergof the Student Organization of Yeshiva (SOY),sponsor of the sale, which has been an importantcommunity event for more than 30 years.
■ UNDERGRADUATE SUMMER HONORS PROGRAM
courses have been approved for women in theS. Daniel Abraham Honors Program and men in theJay and Jeanie Schottenstein Honors Program. SomeAbraham Program students will spend summer atthe Darling Marine Center in Walpole, ME, workingwith marine biologists and collecting and analyzingdeep-ocean specimens. Some Schottenstein Programstudents will travel to the United Kingdom for“Understanding the City: London and Dublin.”Will Lee, PhD, director of the Schottenstein Program,says students will learn about the two capitals, andcities in general, by studying literature, art, music,film, politics, geography, and history. In “CreativeWriting: Fiction and Poetry,” Schottenstein Programstudents will focus on urban themes and people.After three weeks of classes in New York taught byProfs. Gillian Steinberg and Nadine Kavanaugh,
Schottenstein students will experience London andDublin firsthand for two weeks with Profs. Lee, Joan
Haahr, and Rabbi Dr. Jonathan Rosenblatt. They willwalk in the footsteps of Dickens and Joyce, attendperformances in London’s West End and the AbbeyTheatre, and visit world-class museums and art gal-leries. An “Archaeology in Israel” course will beoffered for students in both programs.
■ MORE THAN 100 YESHIVA UNIVERSITY STUDENTS
traveled to The Hague, Netherlands, Feb. 23 in support of Israel’s right to build a barrier to defendagainst attacks from suicide bombers. The YU menand women were accompanied on the trip by Hillel
Davis, vice president for university life; Peter Ferrara,
director of communications and public affairs; Beth
Hait, assistant dean of students for the Israel HenryBeren Campus, and Danny Morris, associate direc-tor of admissions. Outside the UN’s InternationalCourt of Justice, the YU group joined members ofZAKA, the Israeli first-responders unit, and studentsfrom across Israel in protesting the UN’s considera-tion of the legitimacy of the defense barrier. Stu-dents also visited The Anne Frank House and 300-year-old Portuguese Synagogue in Amsterdam.
■ THE FRISCH SCHOOL OF PARAMUS, NJ, CAME
out on top in YU’s Ninth Annual Henry WittenbergWrestling Tournament hosted by YU in February.Frisch earned the championship with 233.50 points.MSTA finished second in the 11-school competitionwith 172 points. Ida Crown Jewish Academy ofChicago rounded out the top three with 167 points.Ari Simchi of Frisch was named Most OutstandingWrestler of the tournament. The Wittenberg Tourna-ment is named for YU’s first wrestling coach, HenryWittenberg, who won gold medals in wrestling atboth the 1948 and 1952 Olympic Games.
■ SY SYMS SCHOOL OF BUSINESS’S DR. WILLIAM
Schwartz Business Plan Competition 2004 awardedprizes to four students and their respective plans:1st Place—Gideon Shiffman, Human LoCator; 2nd Place—Rosa Aspir & Liana Biniashvili, R & L’sDelectable Cakes, and 3rd Place—Reuben Kerben,
Bionex Corporation. The plans grew from the Symscourse, Principles of Entrepreneurship, in which30–40 students wrote business plans. The 10 bestplans were narrowed to five by a three-judge panel:Josh S. Weston, chairman emeritus of the SymsBoard and former chairman and CEO of AutomaticData Processing Inc.; Gerry L. Golub, chair ofAmerican Express Tax & Business Services and sen-ior managing director of its New York operations;and Jay N. Goldberg, senior managing director ofHudson Ventures and founder of the London-basedconsulting company, OPCENTER, LLC. The final fivepresented on March 17. Monetary prizes, include$5,000 for First Place, $3,000 for Second Place, and$2,000 for Third Place.
■ EINSTEIN PROFESSOR NIR BARZILAI WAS
featured in The New York Times’ “A ConversationWith” series on Feb. 24. The article, “Centenarians'Inner Secrets Are Slowly Revealed,” focused on Dr.Barzilai’s ongoing research into aging. “Peoplethink I'm searching for the Fountain of Youth,” heis quoted as saying. “I’m not. I’m looking for waysto make old age better.”
■ STERN COLLEGE PROF. DAVID GLASER’S “SEVEN
American Composers” course features visits to YUfrom two prominent American composers this spring: • April 15—Steve Reich. Recently described in a
New York Times article as “...among the greatcomposers of the past century,” Mr. Reich hasembraced not only aspects of Western classicalmusic but also the structures, harmonies, andrhythms of non-Western and American vernacu-lar music, particularly jazz.
• April 27—Mario Davidovsky, Pulitzer-Prize win-ning member of the American Academy of Artsand Letters, director of the KoussevitzkyFoundation at the Library of Congress, and direc-tor of the Fromm Foundation at HarvardUniversity. He has received fellowships from theGuggenheim and Rockefeller Foundations.
■ THE FIRST ANNUAL YESHIVA UNIVERSITY
Behavioral Sciences Research Conference takes placeon April 22, 2004 from 1–4 pm at the Ferkauf Grad-uate School of Psychology (Rousso Building, 1stfloor, 1165 Morris Park Ave., Bronx). Ferkauf is co-sponsoring the conference with YU’s Wurzweiler
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School of Social Work, the Stern College andYeshiva College Psychology Departments, and theoffice of the academic vice president. YU Studentswill discuss their research projects, literature reviews,and research proposals. The format of the confer-ence will be a poster presentation. Esther Joel, wifeof YU President Richard Joel, who earned her doc-torate from Ferkauf, will open the conference.
■ JOEL KRAEMER, A UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO
professor of near eastern languages, delivered thekeynote address March 21 at the “MosesMaimonides: Talmudist, Philosopher, and Physician,”conference at the Center for Jewish History, hometo the YU Museum. The event commemorates the800th anniversary of the death of the 12th centurysage (1135-1204), known in rabbinic literature as“Rambam” from the acronym Rabbi Moses BenMaimon. Prof. Kraemer was among an array of notedMaimonides scholars who participated in theMarch 21–23 conference, sponsored by YU’s BernardRevel Graduate School of Jewish Studies and NYU’sSkirball Department of Hebrew and Judaic Studies.
■ ISRAEL’S CONSTRUCTION OF A SECURITY
barrier dominated a Stern College Jubilee panel discussion called “Israel and Her Neighbors: Peace inOur Lifetime?” on Feb. 29. Panelists included DavidMakovsky, senior fellow at the WashingtonInstitute for Near East Policy; Malcolm Hoenlein,executive vice president of the Conference ofPresidents of Major American Jewish Organizations;and Gary Rosenblatt, editor and publisher of TheJewish Week.
■ THE ANNUAL AWARDS DINNER OF THE STUDENT
Association and Student Council of Yeshiva
University’s Sy Syms School of Business on April 20at The New York Marriott Marquis, 1535 Broadway(at 46th Street) will honor the 2004 graduates andgive special recognition to Bruce Taragin, class of1989, and Naema Heiney, class of 1998. A receptionat 6 pm will precede dinner at 6:45 pm. For moreinformation contact Rachel Moss at 347-234-0044,Ari Spodek at 917-207-2701, or Mayra Bonilla at212-960-5400 x 5580.
■ THE OFFICE OF STUDENT AID, HEADED BY
Robert Friedman, has hired two new staff members:John Goldberg is assistant director of student aidfor graduate students at Azrieli, Revel, and RIETS;Kathryn Tuman becomes assistant director of stu-dent aid at Cardozo School of Law.
■ TWO WURZWEILER SCHOOL OF SOCIAL WORK
students recently earned national academic awards.Graduate Manoj Pardasani, ’96W, ’03W, PhD,received the 2004 Research Award from theNational Council on Aging for his doctoral disser-tation research that focused on program decision-making in senior centers. Sara Kossove,’04W, wonthe 2004 ACOSA (Association for CommunityOrganization and Social Administration) NationalStudent Award for her essay on the importance ofcommunity social work to the future of the socialwork profession.
■ AARON LEVINE, PHD, SAMSON AND HALINA
Bitensky Professor of Economics at Yeshiva College,contributed a chapter to the recently publishedbook, Public Policy Social Issues: Jewish Sources andPerspectives, edited by Marshal J. Berger. Dr. Levine’schapter is “Welfare Programs and Jewish Law.”
■ A NEW PHOTO DISPLAY FEATURING HISTORIC
and contemporary images of life at YeshivaUniversity was recently installed on the 12th floorcommon area near the elevators. The photo exhibitincludes color and black and white pictures com-memorating visits of prominent figures to YU, anddepicts aspects of student life.
■ CONGREGATION AISH KODESH HOSTED AN
Azkara for Dr. Meir Herskovics on Feb. 28. Dr.Herskovics, who was retired and living in Israel,taught at YU from 1961–1978. He taught in theTeachers’ Institute, Yeshiva College, and ultimatelyin Bernard Revel. The students of Erna MichaelCollege (T.I.) three times elected Dr. HerskovicsProfessor of the Year. Beginning in 1950, he taughtfor various periods at YU’s Girls’ and Boys’ HighSchools in Brooklyn, as well as at the Teachers’Institute for Women. He received his D.H.L. fromYU in 1950.
■ THE ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE
Symphony Orchestra presents Gilbert andSullivan’s “The Mikado” Sunday, March 21, 2 pm,in Robbins Auditorium, Forchheimer Building,1300 Morris Park Avenue, Bronx. The orchestra features faculty, students, and staff of Einstein.
■ 2004 OPEN HOUSE PROGRAMS WILL TAKE
place on the following dates: October 31, 2004—Beren Campus, and November 14, 2004—Wilf Campus.
■ AN EVENT IN SUPPORT THE HOLY CITY OF
Chevron features entertainment by The MoshavBand, Blue Fringe, Aspaklaria, and Tzemach March25th in YU’s Lamport Auditorium, AmsterdamAvenue and 187th Street. Admission is $10. Showbegins promptly at 8 PM Info: www.yuconcert.com.Limited free parking. Photo ID required.
■ ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE AND
its university hospital, Montefiore Medical Center,co-sponsored the first-ever annual Colon CancerChallenge on March 14 in Central Park. The eventwas held in conjunction with the New York RoadRunners and the New York Daily News. Second-year Einstein student Elie Kobrin formed the EinsteinPacesetters, a team of Einstein medical studentsand faculty who ran and walked in the event.
■ THE WASHINGTON POST INTERVIEWED
Dr. John Rosen, professor of pediatrics at Einstein,for an article appearing March 19 on the growingproblem of lead poisoning in children in thenation’s capital.
■ THE NEW YORK TIMES QUOTED Dr. Todd Olson,
professor of anatomy at Einstein in a front-pagearticle about the handling and shipment of cadav-ers (prompted by recent disclosures of improperand possibly illegal activities at UCLA and othermedical institutions). Dr. Olson was quoted asadvocating greater oversight of such activities.Three days later, a letter written by an Einsteinmedical student and commending Dr. Olson for hissensitivity in dealing with donated bodies, appearedin The New York Times. National Public Radio (NPR),Reuters News Service, CBS News, Cable News Net-work (CNN), and the Chicago Tribune also inter-viewed Dr. Olson on this subject earlier this month.
