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Yeshiva University is a private Orthodox Jewish university with four campuses in New York City. [4] The university's undergraduate schools—Yeshiva College, Stern College for Women, Katz School of Science and Health, and Sy Syms School of Business—offer a dual curriculum inspired by Modern–Centrist–Orthodox Judaism's hashkafa (philosophy) of Torah Umadda ("Torah and secular knowledge ...
The Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law is the law school of Yeshiva University in New York City.Founded in 1976 and now located on Fifth Avenue near Union Square in Lower Manhattan, the school is named for Supreme Court Justice Benjamin N. Cardozo.
The Institute for University-School Partnership, a division of the Azrieli Graduate School of Jewish Education and Administration, draws on the intellectual capital and research expertise of Yeshiva University and connects it strategically and proactively to teachers and leaders in the field of Jewish education.
The Wurzweiler School was founded to serve the needs of Jewish communal agencies for well-educated social workers. Through the recent years of its existence, this emphasis has been diluted. This led to its involvement in starting schools of social work at Bar Ilan University in Israel and in Lusaka, Northern Rhodesia (now Zambia). [citation needed]
Yitzchak Elchanan Spektor, namesake of the Seminary. The first Jewish schools in New York were El Hayyim and Rabbi Elnathan's, on the Lower East Side.In 1896, [2] several New York and Philadelphia rabbis agreed that a rabbinical seminary based on the traditional European yeshiva structure was needed to produce American rabbis [2] who were fully committed to what would come to be called ...
The Bernard Revel Graduate School of Jewish Studies was Yeshiva University’s first graduate school. Founded in 1937, it was named for Yeshiva University's first president, Bernard Revel, upon his death in 1940. Its curriculum prepares highly trained teachers, researchers, and scholars in Jewish studies and emphasizes the critical analysis of ...
Yeshiva College is located in New York City’s Washington Heights neighborhood in Upper Manhattan. It is Yeshiva University’s undergraduate college of liberal arts and sciences for men. (Stern College for Women is Yeshiva College’s counterpart for women.) The architecture reflects a search for a distinctly Jewish style appropriate to ...
The Yeshiva in Brooklyn. The United Talmudical Seminary or Yeshiva Torah ViYirah DeRabbeinu Yoel MeSatmar is a private Rabbinical college, or yeshiva, for Satmar students, with locations in Brooklyn and Queens, New York. In the 2004-2005 academic year, it had 1,125 students in all degree fields; in 2006–2007, 869 of its students were ...