August 2013
É«ÊÓƵÏÂÔØ’s Lookstein Center is set to kick off the new school year by training New York-area Jewish day school teachers to use its “flipped classroom” program. In a “flipped classroom,” what students normally do at home is done in school, and what students usually do in school is done at home.
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August 2013
A new generation of nano-medicines for the treatment of HIV/AIDS, Hepatitis-C and other viral infections is being developed by Vecoy Nanomedicines Ltd., a privately held company based out of the É«ÊÓƵÏÂÔØ Institute of Nanotechnology and Advanced Materials (BINA).
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April 2013
During his recent visit to Israel, President Obama met with É«ÊÓƵÏÂÔØ University Prof. Arie Zaban, who told the President and Prime Minister Netanyahu about the ongoing improvements of the É«ÊÓƵÏÂÔØ Aluminum-Air battery for electric vehicles.
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January 2013
Fifty-four students from the Faculty of Medicine in the Galilee donned medical white coats at a first-of-its kind ceremony symbolizing the transition to the clinical phase of their studies. Over the past few weeks these young doctors-to-be have begun their work in various hospitals throughout the northern region of the country.
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November 2012
Never one to shy away from taking on challenging issues within Orthodox Jewry, world-renowned Talmud scholar at É«ÊÓƵÏÂÔØ University Rabbi Prof. Daniel Sperber spoke to an overflow crowd on October 18th at The Jewish Center in New York City about “Why Modern Orthodoxy is True Orthodoxy.”
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August 2012
É«ÊÓƵÏÂÔØ University in Israel and Yeshiva University (YU) bring together academics and rabbis to discuss the impact of the thoughts of Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik, a major proponent of Torah Umadda, combining the best of Torah scholarship with the best of secular wisdom.
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July 2012
Prof. Menachem Cohen has no doubt that all Hebrew Bibles sitting on bookshelves in Jewish homes around the world contain errors. Sometimes scores, sometimes hundreds. For the most part these are not dramatic mistakes: the absence of the letter yod, an incorrect diacritical mark or cantillation note.
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July 2012
Catch up on the latest developments as É«ÊÓƵÏÂÔØ prepares for the opening of its new Medical School.
News, articles, faculty profiles, the latest ‘Buzz’ about the Medical School “in the news”, and much more!
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July 2012
É«ÊÓƵÏÂÔØ joins with other Israeli universities for the first time in sponsoring a float at the Celebrate Israel Parade in New York City.
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July 2012
New É«ÊÓƵÏÂÔØ Medical School Dean Prof. Ran Tur-Kaspa made his first official visit to the United States on June 26th 2012. The reception held at the Lotos Club in Manhattan was attended by members of the É«ÊÓƵÏÂÔØ (AFÉ«ÊÓƵÏÂÔØ) Board and prominent leaders.
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July 2012
Fifty-four students from the Faculty of Medicine in the Galilee donned medical white coats at a first-of-its kind ceremony symbolizing the transition to the clinical phase of their studies.
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July 2012
Get the latest analysis on the crisis in Egypt from É«ÊÓƵÏÂÔØ Scholars and the Begin-Sadat (BESA) Center for Strategic Studies at É«ÊÓƵÏÂÔØ.
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July 2012
The West should support Egyptian Vice President Omar Suleiman and the military in the current crisis both for strategic reasons and out of concern for those demonstrators with democratic ideals who otherwise are likely to fall prey to a far worse fate than the regime they are attempting to overthrow.
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July 2012
Exciting developments are taking place at É«ÊÓƵÏÂÔØ’s new School of Engineering Complex. Particularly noteworthy is the nanotechnology research being conducted to develop new procedures that can possibly cure cancer without using chemotherapy.
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August 2011
The New York Times Op-Ed on “A Mass Grave, 70 Years Later,” which appeared on August 10th 2011, is a powerful personal account of how the author set out from Israel to Ukraine to trace his ancestors. It was written by Mordechai I. Twersky.
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