Yeshiva University Gets $100 Million Gift

Yeshiva, a comprehensive university under Jewish auspices, announced yesterday that Ronald P. Stanton, 78, was donating $100 million, which it says is the largest single gift ever to support Jewish education in the United States. “This breaks the glass ceiling both for Yeshiva and for Jewish life,” said Richard M. Joel, the president of Yeshiva, which has about 3,000 undergraduates as well as schools of law,medicine, business and other disciplines, and a rabbinical seminary.