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CUNY Board of Trustees Appoints Three New College Presidents

The Board of Trustees of the City University of New York appointed three new college presidents to Queens College, The CUNY Graduate School and...

New Siddurim Offer Schools Opportunity to Better Connect Children to Prayer

"Tefilla (prayer) is a journey,” says Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks, former chief rabbi of the United Kingdom. This school year, some students will better...

Should Struggling Students Repeat a Grade?

At first glance, grade retention may look like old-fashioned common sense: Fail the year? Just do it over! In fact, with new emphasis on...

Mercava Empowers Jewish Educators with Interactive Books & Lessons

Mercava, a non-profit educational technology platform and incubator, announced today that it will be launching a summer campaign to introduce formal and informal Jewish...

YU Students Visit Germany and Connect with Local Jewish Community

As the spring semester drew to a close, a group of 16 Yeshiva University students traveled to Germany May 25-June 2 as part of...

Bar-Ilan University Historian to Receive Bialik Prize for Jewish Thought

Prof Aaron Demsky, of Bar-Ilan University's Israel and Golda Koschitzky Department of Jewish History and Contemporary Jewry, is to receive the Bialik Prize for...

Tanger Hillel at Brooklyn College Appoints New President Of the Board of Directors

Entrepeneur, financier and former stand-up comic Nelson Braff has been elected president of the Board of Directors at Tanger Hillel of Brooklyn College. Mr....

Interest Rates on Student Loans Rise Again

According to the Institute for College Access and Success, over 70 percent of students graduate college with debt averaging just under $30,000. If this...

CUNY Trustees Appoint Farley Herzek Kingsborough Community College President

The Board of Trustees of The City University of New York has appointed Farley Herzek as the president of Kingsborough Community College. President Herzek,...

CUNY’s 2014 Valedictorians

Esther Lykes is graduating summa cum laude from Baruch College with a B.A. in Business Management and Entrepreneurship. A member of Sigma Iota Epsilon...

How to Lose $1B: Yeshiva U Blows Future on Loser Hedge Funds

Investigations revealed that Manhattan’s prestigious Yeshiva University has undergone a $1.3 billion loss due to high-risk investments and conflicts of interest. The unfortunate reality...

A Chancellor Comes Home to CUNY

The public university at the heart of NYC Last month, I completed almost a decade as president of the University of Nebraska, from which...

YUHS Hebrew Instructor Receives Grinspoon Award for Excellence in Jewish Education

Ms. Liora Haibi, Hebrew language instructor at the Marsha Stern Talmudical Academy (MTA)/Yeshiva University High School for Boys, has been selected as a regional...

Wyman Conference in NYC Sees Lessons From 1939 “Voyage of the Damned”

Ten years from now, will anybody remember the ill-fated voyage of the St. Louis and its 937 Jewish passengers? Has the world learned any...

Executive Changes at the American Technion Society

The New York City-based American Technion Society (ATS), which provides critical fundraising support for the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology in Haifa, Israel, recently announced...

MIT Creates First Seed Fund in Israel

MIT-Israel/BGU Seed Fund to support collaborations between faculty and research scientists in the US and Israel Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU) and the...

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