Yeshiva College (yeshiva University)

Information about Yeshiva College (yeshiva University)

This article is about the college in New York City. For the high school in Melbourne, see Yeshivah College, Australia.

Belfer Hall, named for philanthropists Diane and Arthur Belfer, is one of the tallest educational structures in the world.[1]

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.)

Roughly 1,100 students from some two dozen countries, including students registered at Sy Syms School of Business, attend Yeshiva College.

David J. Srolovitz, Ph.D., is dean of Yeshiva College.

Philosophy

Students at Yeshiva College pursue a dual educational program that combines liberal arts and sciences and pre-professional studies with the study of Torah and Jewish heritage, reflecting Yeshiva’s educational philosophy of Torah Umadda, which translates loosely as “wisdom and knowledge” (the interaction between Judaism and general culture).

History

Yeshiva College was founded in 1928 as the first college of liberal arts and sciences in the United States under Jewish auspices.

Academics

Majors offered include:

Biology
Chemistry
Classical languages
Computer sciences
Economics
English
French
Hebrew
History
Jewish studies
Mathematics
Music
Philosophy
Physics
Political science
Pre-engineering
Psychology
Sociology
Speech and drama

Combined and joint programs in business administration, dentistry, engineering, Jewish education, Jewish studies, law, occupational therapy, optometry, podiatric medicine, and social work are also available.

Minors offered include:

American studies
Architecture
Art
Biology
Business
Chemistry
Classical languages
Computer sciences
Economics
English (Literature and Writing tracks)
Foreign languages
French
Hebrew
History
Jewish studies
Mathematics
Music
Philosophy
Physics
Political science
Psychology
Public health
Sociology
Spanish
Speech and drama

The Robert M. Beren Department of Jewish Studies unifies and centralizes all academic Jewish studies offerings at Yeshiva College: Bible, Hebrew, Jewish history, Jewish philosophy, and Judaic studies.

In addition to courses leading to the B.A. degree, all students undertake Jewish studies requiring intensive analysis of classic texts in Hebrew and Aramaic. Students are enrolled in a full course of study in one of the following options:

James Striar School of General Jewish Studies/the Mechinah Program
Yeshiva Program/Mazer School of Talmudic Studies
Isaac Breuer College of Hebraic Studies
Irving I. Stone Beit Midrash Program

Yeshiva College's Jay and Jeanie Schottenstein Honors program stresses writing, critical analysis, cultural enrichment, and individual mentoring.

The S. Daniel Abraham Israel Program allows students who wish to spend a year in Israel to take courses at one of 46 different Israeli institutions.

Student life

Athletics include Maccabees basketball, tennis, fencing, cross-country, golf, soccer, volleyball, wrestling, and baseball. Other activities include the Commentator newspaper and radio station WYUR.

David H. Zysman Hall, on the Washington Heights campus of Yeshiva College, is home to the main beit midrash (study hall).

Student Government

The student government, the Yeshiva Student Union, includes the Student Organization of Yeshiva (for students in MYP and RIETS), the IBC, JSS, and SBMP Student Councils, the Sy Syms School Of Business Student Association, and the Yeshiva College Student Association.

Dormitories and student housing

Approximately 90% of the undergraduate student population(s) lives on campus.

The Wilf Campus includes three main dormitory buildings: Morgenstern, Muss, and Rubin Residence Halls. Morgenstern, nicknamed the "Morg," tends to house the more academically orientated students, while Rubin, in the same building as the athletic center and main cafeteria, is seen as a more relaxed location. In recent years, Muss, in the same building as much of the Jewish studies classes, has become the center for the most religious students on campus. Many upperclassmen live in the surrounding independent housing that is run by the university or in other nearby buildings.

Facilities

David H. Zysman Hall
Sol and Hilda Furst Hall
Belfer Hall
Schottenstein Center
Mendel Gottesman Library
Max Stern Athletic Building and Benjamin Gottesman Pool
Ruth and Hyman Muss, Morris and Celia Morgenstern, Joseph and Dora Strenger, and Leah and Joseph Rubin Residence Halls

External links

References

Emporis Standards Committee. "Official World's 50 Tallest High-rise Buildings (Educational Use)"

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Yeshivas Oholei Yosef Yitzchok Lubavitch, known more commonly as Yeshivah College, is an independent, single-sex, Orthodox Jewish day school for boys', located in East St Kilda, a suburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
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Upper Manhattan denotes the more northerly region of the New York City Borough of Manhattan. Its southern boundary may be defined anywhere between 59th Street and 155th Street.
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Yeshiva University is a private Jewish university in New York City whose first component was founded in 1886. Yeshiva's endowment is over $1.2 billion dollars, ranked 52nd in the nation in 2007.^[2].
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Stern College for Women (SCW) is the undergraduate women's college of arts and sciences at Yeshiva University. It is located at Yeshiva University's Midtown Campus in the Murray Hill section of Manhattan.
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The Sy Syms School of Business is Yeshiva University's undergraduate business school for men and women. It offers business programs for men at Yeshiva College's Wilf Campus in New York’s Washington Heights neighborhood, and for women at the Stern College for Women's Beren
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Yeshiva College (also Yeshivah College) can refer to any one of the following Orthodox Jewish schools:

Yeshiva College of Melbourne, Australia
Yeshiva College of Sydney, Australia (now defunct)
Yeshiva College of South Africa

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