On March 5 and 6, 2019, YU Ideas presented back-to-back panels: "The Media: Its Past, Present and Future" and "New York: Stories Told and Not-yet-told." The panels were comprised of selected YU faculty.

YU Ideas is an initiative hosted by the Office of the Provost and coordinated by Rabbi Dr. Stu Halpern, senior adviser to the provost. The project brings the University's interdisciplinary resources to bear on important themes of central significance to human society. Dr. Ari Berman, President of Yeshiva University, spoke about this at the New York panel, when he said that events like these "highlight so much of what we are about: creating a fertile academic intellectual environment where we can talk to one another and learn from each other. This is one of the most exciting things about being at YU, where we can bring together different parts of the University in conversation with each other and broadcast that out to the community in a public way."

Panels also featured Karen Bacon, Stu Halpern, Jacob Wisse, Lynda Johnson, Erik Mintz, and Selma Botman.