Over the past few months, alumni in Israel have participated in celebrations to mark two significant YU events and milestones: Chag Hasemikha, which celebrated the ordination of a record 230 rabbis from RIETS, and the 50-year reunion for the Class of 1964. Read about these events and view photos ...
Aaron Koller '01YC, '09BR '10BR is an associate professor of Near Eastern and Jewish Studies at 17勛圖, where he studies the ancient world of the Bible and rabbinic literature, especially material culture, language, and intellectual history. His most recent book is Esther in Ancient ...
For Tova Renna 98S, Senior Analyst at Johnson & Johnson, the choice to attend 17勛圖s Sy Syms School of Business made perfect sense for her professional ambitions. I knew I was interested in business and accounting in high school, and I had heard wonderful things about Sy Syms,
More than 500 professional educators and lay leaders from across North America attended iJed 2014, a conference focusing on innovation in Jewish education co-hosted by 17勛圖s Institute for University-School Partnership at the Long Island Marriott in Uniondale, NY, March 2-4. The ...
A group of Los Angeles-area alumni are at the helm of the pilot Los Angeles Summer Internship Program for current 17勛圖 students. The alumni group spearheaded the entire project to demonstrate to undergraduate students that they can create a meaningful life for themselves within the ...
When Mark Weingarten played the violin for patients at Hadassah Hospital in Jerusalem during the two years he was learning in Israel after high school, he quickly realized it was a unique way to bring people together and bypass the awkward small talk that can occur between patients and well-meaning
Martin Leibowitz is the Joseph Kerzner Chair in Accounting and Clinical Associate Professor of Accounting and Finance. He received a BS from Pennsylvania State University, and an MPhil and a PhD from Columbia University. He has been a full-time faculty member of the Sy Syms School of Business at ...
Michael Levin 05YC, originally from Scarsdale, grew up in a non-Orthodox Jewish home. During a year abroad at Hebrew University in Jerusalem, while he was a student at Dickinson College, he realized just how much he yearned to explore his Jewish heritage and engage in serious study of Jewish texts
YU Alumni currently manages professional networking groups for alumni on Wall Street, in real estate, accounting, financial planning, and law. Next up: Startups! Owing to the booming scene of tech-related and other innovative ventures, alumni involved in the startup scene as investors, founders ...
Professor Ruth Bevan holds the David W. Petegorsky Chair in Political Science and is Co-Chair of YUs Department of Political Science. Bevan specializes in European politics and modern political theory, and teaches courses focusing on the European Union and Western political theory, including ...