Jump to content

Yeshiva University: Difference between revisions

Coordinates: 40°51′01″N 73°55′47″W / 40.85028°N 73.92972°W / 40.85028; -73.92972
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Browse history interactively
← Previous editNext edit →
Content deleted Content added
VisualWikitext
removed Category:University Art Museums and Galleries of New York using HotCat - article is about the university or college and not mainly about the art gallery or museum
Lrwolfgang (talk | contribs)
373 edits
Line 52: Line 52:
| journal = Tablet Magazine
| journal = Tablet Magazine
| date = August 20, 2009}}</ref> Since it was first founded in 1886, Yeshiva University has expanded to comprise some twenty colleges, schools, affiliates, centers, and institutions, with several affiliated hospitals and health care institutions. It has campuses and facilities in [[Manhattan]] ([[Washington Heights, Manhattan|Washington Heights]], [[Murray Hill, Manhattan|Murray Hill]], [[Greenwich Village]]), the [[Bronx]], [[Queens]], and [[Israel]].
| date = August 20, 2009}}</ref> Since it was first founded in 1886, Yeshiva University has expanded to comprise some twenty colleges, schools, affiliates, centers, and institutions, with several affiliated hospitals and health care institutions. It has campuses and facilities in [[Manhattan]] ([[Washington Heights, Manhattan|Washington Heights]], [[Murray Hill, Manhattan|Murray Hill]], [[Greenwich Village]]), the [[Bronx]], [[Queens]], and [[Israel]].

===Yeshiva University Museum===
{{main|Yeshiva University Museum}}

The Yeshiva University Museum is a teaching museum and the cultural arm of Yeshiva University. Founded in 1973, Yeshiva University Museum is AAMG accredited and aims to provide a window into Jewish culture around the world and throughout history through multi-disciplinary exhibitions and publications.

{{see also|List of university art museums and galleries in New York State}}


==Student life==
==Student life==

Revision as of 17:08, 20 March 2014

Yeshiva University
Mottoתורה ומדע (Hebrew)
(Torah and secular knowledge)
TypePrivate
Established1886
AffiliationModern Orthodox Judaism
EndowmentUS$1.1258 billion[1]
PresidentRichard M. Joel
Academic staff
4,714
Undergraduates3,017
Postgraduates3,496
Location
New York City
CampusUrban
NicknameMaccabees
Websitewww.yu.edu

Yeshiva University is a private university in New York City, with six campuses in New York and one in Israel. Founded in 1886, it is a research university.

The University's undergraduate schools—Yeshiva College, Stern College for Women, and Syms School of Business— offer a dual curriculum inspired by Modern-Centrist-Orthodox Judaism's hashkafa (philosophy) of Torah Umadda ("Torah and secular knowledge") combining academic education with the study of Torah.[2] Yeshiva is perhaps best known for its secular, highly selective graduate schools, the Albert Einstein College of Medicine and the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law.

Yeshiva University is an independent institution chartered by New York State.[3][4][5][6] It is accredited by the Commission on Higher Education of the Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools[7] and by several professional agencies.[8]

History

Main article: History of Yeshiva University
David H. Zysman Hall, a Moorish Revival building on Yeshiva University's Wilf Campus, is home to the former main beit midrash (Torah study hall)

The University is the oldest institution of higher learning in the United States that combines Jewish scholarship with studies in the liberal arts, sciences, medicine, law, business, social work, Jewish studies and education, and psychology.[citation needed]

It has its roots in the Etz Chaim Yeshiva founded in 1886 on the Lower East Side of Manhattan, a cheder-style elementary school founded by Eastern European immigrants that offered study of Talmud along with some secular education, including instruction in English.[citation needed]

As of August 2012,[9] Yeshiva University enrolls approximately 6,400 undergraduate students, 3,500 graduate students, and 1,000 students at its affiliated high schools and Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary. It conferred 1,822 degrees in 2007 and offers community service projects serving New York, Jewish communities, the United States and Canada.[8]

Richard M. Joel is Yeshiva University's president, while Rabbi Dr. Norman Lamm served as chancellor until 2013. Joel is the first president of YU who is not a rabbi. The university's past leaders include Dr. Bernard Revel, Dr. Samuel Belkin, and "The Rav," Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik.

In December 2012, the President of the University apologized over allegations that two rabbis at the college's high school campus abused boys there in the late 1970s and early ’80s.[10][11] Investigations into these allegations by The Jewish Daily Forward[12] and a law firm hired by the university[13] found "multiple instances in which the university either failed to appropriately act to protect the safety of its students or did not respond to the allegations at all." These allegations led to a 380 million dollar lawsuit by former students.[14]

Campus

The University's main campus, Wilf Campus, is located in Washington Heights. A 1928 plan to build a spacious Moorish Revival campus around several gardens and courtyards was cancelled by the Great Depression of 1929 after only one building had been erected. Building continued after the Depression in modern style and by the acquisition of existing neighborhood buildings.[15] Since it was first founded in 1886, Yeshiva University has expanded to comprise some twenty colleges, schools, affiliates, centers, and institutions, with several affiliated hospitals and health care institutions. It has campuses and facilities in Manhattan (Washington Heights, Murray Hill, Greenwich Village), the Bronx, Queens, and Israel.

Yeshiva University Museum

Main article: Yeshiva University Museum

The Yeshiva University Museum is a teaching museum and the cultural arm of Yeshiva University. Founded in 1973, Yeshiva University Museum is AAMG accredited and aims to provide a window into Jewish culture around the world and throughout history through multi-disciplinary exhibitions and publications.

See also: List of university art museums and galleries in New York State

Student life

Yeshiva University maintains four campuses in New York City:

  • The Resnick Campus in the Morris Park neighborhood of the eastern Bronx contains the Albert Einstein College of Medicine and the Ferkauf Graduate School of Psychology, along with dormitories, a library, a hospital and other medical facilities.
  • The Brookdale Center in the Greenwich Village neighborhood of downtown Manhattan contains the Benjamin Cardozo School of Law, law clinics and office, and a dormitory. The Center for Jewish History, which includes the Yeshiva University Museum along with other institutions, is nearby in the Chelsea neighborhood.
  • The Beren Campus in the Murray Hill neighborhood of Midtown Manhattan is home to the undergraduate schools for women, including Stern College for Women and the Midtown branch of the Syms School of Business, along with dormitories and other facilities. The Azrieli School has classes on this campus as well.
  • The Wilf Campus is centered around the area of Amsterdam Ave and West 185th Street in the Washington Heights neighborhood of upper Manhattan. Yeshiva University's main office is located within the Wilf Campus, at 500 185th St.,[16] and Wilf is considered the main campus. It is home to the undergraduate schools for men, the rabbinical seminary, the Belz School of Jewish Music, the high school for boys, the Azrieli Graduate School for Jewish Education and Administration, the Wurzweiler School for Social Work, and the Bernard Revel Graduate school, along with other divisions, offices, libraries, dormitories, and other facilities.

The high school for girls is located in New York City as well, in the Holliswood neighborhood of eastern Queens.

S. Daniel Abraham Israel Program

The campus in Jerusalem, in the Bayit VeGan neighborhood, contains a branch of the rabbinical seminary and an office coordinating the S. Daniel Abraham Israel Program,[17] a formal arrangement between Yeshiva University and 42 men's and women's yeshivot in Israel that enables students to incorporate study in Israel into their college years. While studying in Israel, students study Jewish subjects while learning firsthand about Israel's land, people, history, and culture.

Yeshiva University Israel advisers visit each school regularly to offer academic guidance, career planning, and personal counseling. In addition, the program sponsors lectures and activities where students can gather under the auspices of Yeshiva University, and a guidance center to provide support for students studying in Israel. Yeshiva University also cosponsors events for American students in Israel, such as the Battle of the Bands and Inter-Seminary Choir Competition, and an annual career fair.

The program is headquartered at the Student Center at Yeshiva University's Israel Campus in the Bayit Vegan neighborhood of Jerusalem. Rabbi Ari Solomont serves as director of the program.[18]

Student government

Clubs and activities are maintained by the students in each school, generally under the auspices of a student government. Activities are funded by a student activities fee collected by the school but freely distributed by the elected council. (Athletics are usually an academic department.) Each graduate school maintains a student council, such as the Student Bar Association at Cardozo, which, in turn, supports the many clubs and publications in each school.

At the undergraduate level, there are separate student governments on the two campuses. Although the two student governments are separate, they work closely in coordinating joint events. The men's schools are represented overall by the Yeshiva Student Union, and specifically by the Yeshiva College Student Association, the Syms Student Council, the Student Organization of Yeshiva (SOY, which represents both undergraduate MYP students as well as RIETS students), and student councils for SBMP, IBC, and JSS. The latter four run most Jewish-related activities on campus, including holiday celebrations and the famed SOY Seforim (Jewish book) sale annually around February, which is open to the general public and attracts large crowds from near and far. There are also individual councils for each class, council committees, a Student Court, and clubs.

The women's schools are represented by the Stern College and Syms Student Councils; there are also a Torah Activities Council, which coordinates Jewish-related events, and individual class councils, along with various clubs.

The various positions on all councils are chosen by elections open to all students (both as voters and candidates) generally held in the Spring (for the following year's councils), although Freshman and Sophomore class councils are elected in the Fall, the latter owing to the large number of students spending the freshman year abroad in Israel.

The undergraduate men's newspaper is The Commentator, and the undergraduate women's The Observer, as well as a co-ed satirical news site The Quipster; there is also a student newspaper (in addition to a number of law journals) at Cardozo. There are numerous other publications on a wide range of topics, both secular and religious, produced by the various councils and academic clubs, along with many official university publications and the university press. The call letters of the student radio station are WYUR, currently an Internet-only station, available at wyur.net.[19]

Dormitories and student housing

There are dormitory and dining facilities on each campus. Cardozo has a single dormitory building a block south of the classroom building, while Einstein has a number of student housing buildings on campus for single and married students.

Approximately 80% of the undergraduate student populations live on campus.

The Wilf Campus includes three main dormitory buildings: Morgenstern (nicknamed "Morg"), Rubin, and Muss Halls. Many upperclassmen and some graduate students live in the surrounding independent housing that is run by the university or in other nearby buildings; there is also a small high school dormitory on campus, Strenger Hall, which houses some older students as well who serve as counselors.

The Beren campus includes four dormitory buildings: Brookdale, Schottenstein, the 36th Street and 35th Street Residence Halls. Many students live in university-administered independent housing nearby.

Athletics

Yeshiva University is home to a variety of NCAA Division III-level sports teams. The teams, nicknamed "The Maccabees",[20] include: men's baseball, basketball, golf, volleyball, wrestling, women's basketball, cross country, fencing, soccer, tennis, and volleyball.

One of the most successful teams in Yeshiva University sports history is the fencing team, known as the "Taubermen", named after the coach of the team, Professor Arthur Tauber, who served as the head coach of the team from 1949 through 1985. Olympic gold medalist Henry Wittenberg was at one time the coach of the wrestling team.[21]

Because of Yeshiva's dual curriculum, most of the sports teams practice at night, sometimes even as late as 11:00 pm. A few of the sports teams have been known to get in an early morning practice or workout before classes begin at 9:00 am.

Teams have participated in weekend tournaments outside of New York City, with athletes staying with local families in the area. This took place in Boston with the basketball and fencing teams, and in Hollywood, Florida with the baseball team in 2008. Some international students have participated in NCAA sports, with as many as nine different nationalities representing the school on the sports field.[22]

Two members of the Yeshiva Maccabees Baseball team were drafted out of college by professional teams of the Israeli Baseball League. Pitcher Aryeh Rosenbaum, celebrated a championship with his team in the IBL's first year.[23]

Yeshiva's Men's Basketball team is an annual playoff contender. The best era for Yeshiva basketball in recent history has been the first few years and last few years of the 1990s. Banners hang in the Max Stern Athletic Center commemorating seasons from both eras. The 2007–2008 season had particular note as Yeshiva was home to the NCAA Skyline Conference's Rookie of the Year. Many other teams are quickly becoming contenders and the future looks very good for the men's soccer, baseball, and tennis teams.[citation needed] Since 2010, the Men's Cross Country and Men's Volleyball teams have won multiple championships.[24][25] Many of the Maccabees have gained attention nationwide, like Sam Cohen won an individual championship as well as Capital One Academic honors.[26] Other attention grabbers come from Women's Basketball and Women's Fencing.[27][28]

Men's Cross Country Hudson Valley Athletic Conference Invitationals
2010 Champions N/A
2011 Champions N/A
2012 Champions 1st Place - Baruch College Cross Country Invitational
Men's Volleyball HVMAC Regular Season HVMAC Playoffs Tournament
2010 Champions Champions
2011 Champions Runner Up
2012 Champions Runner Up
2013 Champions Champions

Student groups and organizations

Student clubs, groups, and organizations are run by the student body. Student groups include the Commentator (a student newspaper) and the Yeshiva University Dramatics Society (YCDS) that puts on a performance each semester. A student-run group known as the Heights Initiative sponsors several outreach programs that work with the schools and organizations of the Washington Heights community. Student Government is run through YSU, YCSA, SOY-JSC, and SYMS. These four student run organizations hold weekly meetings with their respective councils and a weekly meeting with university administrators. Their goal is to help ensure that the student clubs and organizations are receiving the appropriate funding and support. Additionally, they run community events like the annual Hannukah Concert and a carnival celebrating Israeli Independence Day.

In 2009 students gathered together to create a "Tolerance Club", the purpose of which was to promote the idea of there being a diversity of people within the Yeshiva University community. The group was controversial on the Yeshiva University campus. This controversy came to a head when the Tolerance Club sponsored a panel discussion entitled "Being Gay in the Orthodox World" in December 2009. Several hundred people attended this panel discussion. Numerous Jewish news sources covered the panel and the conflict that enveloped the Yeshiva campus in its wake. The Tolerance Club disbanded in May 2010. "[29]

The Yeshiva University Medical Ethics Society (MES), is an undergraduate student-run organization of Yeshiva University which was founded by students in the fall of 2005 with the help of the Center for the Jewish Future toward the goal of promoting education and awareness of Jewish medical ethics in the university itself and the community at large. Since that time, MES working with the CJF has grown from a small group of students with common interests to running events with university-wide participation. In the first several years, they hosted a program of on-campus lectures by experts[who?] in the field of medical ethics and Halakha (Jewish law). Topics covered have included stem cell research, cloning, do not resuscitate orders, genetic testing, pre-implantation genetic diagnosis, and birth control. They also host genetic testing events to help combat the high incidence of various genetic diseases in the Jewish community. The Society hosts events throughout the year, including an annual conference focused on a chosen medical ethics topic. The events are open to all those who have an interest in learning more about Jewish medical ethics.

Rankings

Academic rankings
National
Forbes[30]135
U.S. News & World Report[31]47
Washington Monthly[32]187
Global
ARWU[33]201-300
QS[34]269
THE[35]156

The U.S. News and World Report's 2014 "America's Best Colleges" ranked Yeshiva University as the 47th best National University.[36][37] Yeshiva University's Albert Einstein School of Medicine was ranked 38th in the nation in research[38] and 51st in primary care,[39] and its Cardozo School of Law was ranked number 58[40] among law schools. It ranked #5 in Dispute Resolution & #6 in Intellectual Property Law.[41]

The Washington Monthly 2013 College Rankings placed Yeshiva University 187th nationally.[42]

Forbes ranked Yeshiva University as; #135 Of all colleges in America, #102 in Private Colleges, #70 in Research Universities & #63 in the Northeast.[43]

Internationally, Yeshiva was ranked 156th by the Times Higher Education World University Rankings,[44] in the 200s by the Shanghai Jiao Tong University's Academic Ranking of World Universities[45] and 269th in the world by the QS World University Rankings.[46]

Notable faculty, alumni, and board members

Notable faculty, Past and Present

Notable alumni

See also

References

  1. ^ "U.S. and Canadian Institutions Listed by Fiscal Year 2011 Endowment Market Value and Percentage Change in Endowment Market Value from FY 2010 to FY 2011" (PDF). Copyright 2012 National Association of College and University Business Officers and Commonfund Institute. Retrieved March 10, 2012.
  2. ^ "Mission Statement". Yeshiva University. Retrieved August 27, 2010.
  3. ^ A brief overview of the History of Yeshiva University
  4. ^ History of YU
  5. ^ Yeshiva University Undergraduate women's catalog
  6. ^ Yeshiva University Overview
  7. ^ "Yeshiva University Accredited". Retrieved July 20, 2009.
  8. ^ a b This is Yeshiva University: 2007–2008
  9. ^ "About Yeshiva University". YU.edu. August 2012. Retrieved October 16, 2012.
  10. ^ Blau, Reuven, and Rachel Monahan (December 13, 2012). "Yeshiva University president apologizes for '70s and '80s molest allegations". New York Daily News. Retrieved August 26, 2013. {{cite news}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |publisher= (help)CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  11. ^ Yee, Vivian (December 14, 2012). "Report of '80s Sexual Abuse Rattles Yeshiva Campus". New York Times.
  12. ^ Berger, Paul, (Jane Eisner, ed.), "Yeshiva Officials, Rabbis Knew of Alleged Abuse", The Forward, December 20, 2012 (issue of December 28, 2012). Via Yerachmiel Lopin's Frum Follies blog. Retrieved 2012-12-25.
  13. ^ Nick DeSantis (August 28, 2013). "Yeshiva U. Mishandled Sex-Abuse Allegations Until 2001, Report Says". The Chronicle of Higher Education. Retrieved August 28, 2013.
  14. ^ Paul Berger (July 8, 2013). "Former Y.U. High School Students File $380M Suit Claiming Sex Abuse Cover-Up". The Jewish Daily Forward. Retrieved August 26, 2013.
  15. ^ "Building Bust, The unbuilt synagogues of the Great Depression". Tablet Magazine. August 20, 2009.
  16. ^ "Yeshiva University Campus Map" (PDF).
  17. ^ S. Daniel Abraham Israel Program Home Page
  18. ^ Rabbi Ari Solomont Named New Director of Israel Program
  19. ^ WYUR.net
  20. ^ "Yeshiva Maccabees homepage". Yeshiva Maccabees. Retrieved August 27, 2010.
  21. ^ Goldstein, Richard (March 10, 2010). "Henry Wittenberg, Champion Wrestler, Dies at 91". The New York Times. Retrieved March 10, 2010.
  22. ^ "Players From Nine Countries Find Common Goal in Men's Soccer Team". Yeshiva University News. Yeshiva University. November 11, 2008. Retrieved August 27, 2010.
  23. ^ Mike Spinner (December 6, 2007). "Two former Yeshiva University Baseball players to compete in new Israeli Baseball League". Yeshiva Sports Information. Skyline Conference. Retrieved August 27, 2010.
  24. ^ http://www.hvmac.net/sports/mxc/championships
  25. ^ http://www.hvmac.net/sports/mvball/championships
  26. ^ http://yumacs.com/news/2013/5/30/MXC_0530131159.aspx
  27. ^ http://yumacs.com/news/2011/3/2/WFENCE_0302111248.aspx?path=wfence
  28. ^ http://yumacs.com/news/2013/4/8/WBB_0408134509.aspx
  29. ^ "Didn't Think Tolerance Could Be Controversial? Welcome To Yeshiva University". May 5, 2009. Retrieved September 26, 2013.
  30. ^ "America's Top Colleges 2024". Forbes. September 6, 2024. Retrieved September 10, 2024.
  31. ^ "2024-2025 Best National Universities Rankings". U.S. News & World Report. September 23, 2024. Retrieved November 22, 2024.
  32. ^ "2024 National University Rankings". Washington Monthly. August 25, 2024. Retrieved August 29, 2024.
  33. ^ "2024 Academic Ranking of World Universities". ShanghaiRanking Consultancy. August 15, 2024. Retrieved August 21, 2024.
  34. ^ "QS World University Rankings 2025". Quacquarelli Symonds. June 4, 2024. Retrieved August 9, 2024.
  35. ^ "World University Rankings 2024". Times Higher Education. September 27, 2023. Retrieved August 9, 2024.
  36. ^ Yeshiva University | Best College | US News
  37. ^ "National University Rankings". U.S.News & World Report LP. September 10, 2013. Retrieved September 10, 2013.
  38. ^ "Best Medical Schools - Research". U.S.News & World Report LP. September 10, 2013. Retrieved September 10, 2013.
  39. ^ "Best Medical Schools - Primary Care". U.S.News & World Report LP. September 10, 2013. Retrieved September 10, 2013.
  40. ^ "Best Law School Rankings Care". U.S.News & World Report LP. September 10, 2013. Retrieved September 10, 2013.
  41. ^ Yeshiva University | Overall Rankings | Best College | US News
  42. ^ The Washington Monthly College Rankings, Washington Monthly. Retrieved September 10, 2013.
  43. ^ Yeshiva University - Forbes
  44. ^ "World University Rankings". The Times Higher Educational Supplement. 2012. Retrieved September 10, 2013.
  45. ^ "Academic Ranking of World Universities – 2012". ARWU. ShanghaiRanking Consultancy. Retrieved September 10, 2013.
  46. ^ "QS World University Rankings 2013 Results". TopUniversities. QS Quacquarelli Symonds Limited. Retrieved September 10, 2013.
  47. ^ Rabbi Benjamin Blech (October 13, 2003). "YU Professor Publishes Ninth Book: Taking Stock: A Spiritual Guide to Rising Above Life's Financial Ups and Downs". Taking Stock. Retrieved August 27, 2010.
  48. ^ Herbert and Florence Tenzer Professor of Jewish Law and Ethics. "J. David Bleich". Profile. Cardozo. Retrieved August 27, 2010.
  49. ^ "Rabbi Shalom Carmy". Yeshiva University. Retrieved August 27, 2010.
  50. ^ Rabbi David Berger (November 23, 2005). "Rabbi David Berger: Professor of History, Brooklyn College and the Graduate Center, City University of New York, New York, NY". Rabbinical Council of America. Retrieved August 27, 2010.
  51. ^ "Core Faculty". Bernard Revel, Gradual School of Jewish Studies. Retrieved August 27, 2010.
  52. ^ Dr. Adam Zachary Newton. "?". Yeshiva University Faculty. Retrieved August 27, 2010.
  53. ^ "?". The Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life. Archived from the original on March 6, 2008. Retrieved August 27, 2010.
  54. ^ "Rabbi Eliahu Baruch Shulman of Brooklyn Joins Faculty of Yeshiva University's Yeshiva Program/Mazer School of Talmudic Studies". Yeshiva University News. October 6, 2005. Retrieved August 27, 2010.
  55. ^ "Rabbi Dr. Jacob J. Schacter University Professor of Jewish History and Jewish Thought and Senior Scholar at the Center for the Jewish Future at Yeshiva University, New York, NY". Rabbinical Council of America. June 6, 2006. Retrieved August 27, 2010.
  56. ^ Rabbi Benjamin Yudin, Congregation Shomrei Torah. Retrieved March 27, 2008. "He pursued a dual graduate study program, earning smicha (rabbinic ordination) from Y. U.'s Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary, as well as a master's degree in Jewish History."
  57. ^ "Candidates / Howard Dean". CNN. February 18, 2004.
  58. ^ "ITIM Staff". ITIM Life, the Jewish-Life Information Center. Retrieved August 27, 2010.
  59. ^ Rabbi Dr. Barry Freundel. "Kesher Israel's rabbi for the past eighteen years is Rabbi Barry Freundel". Kesher Israel. Retrieved August 27, 2010.
  60. ^ Clyde Haberman (July 3, 1994). "June 26 – July 2: Hebron Massacre; Israel Says Gunman Acted by Himself". New York Times.
  61. ^ Shell E (January 1, 2002). "Chapter 4: On the Cutting Edge". The Hungry Gene: The Inside Story of the Obesity Industry. Atlantic Monthly Press. ISBN 978-1422352434.
  62. ^ Shell E (January 1, 2002). "Chapter 5: Hunger". The Hungry Gene: The Inside Story of the Obesity Industry. Atlantic Monthly Press. ISBN 978-1422352434.
  63. ^ Ephross, Peter (June 23, 2002). "Chaim Potok dead at age of 73, was literary pioneer and scholar". Jewish Virtual Library. Retrieved August 27, 2010.

40°51′01″N 73°55′47″W / 40.85028°N 73.92972°W / 40.85028; -73.92972

Retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/enwiki/w/index.php?title=Yeshiva_University&oldid=600474077"