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It’s a new world, and much of that world is online. As a result, the Office of Alumni Affairs has amped up its presence on the web, including an active Facebook page which we regularly update with news about YU alumni events, announcements of upcoming programs, contests with the chance to win YU swag, and videos and photos, including the popular photo feature “Toddler Tuesdays.”
Upcoming Sports Events Around Campus
Attention sports fans! There are a number of sports-related programs happening at YU. On Sunday, May 6, Coach Johnny Halpert will be recognized for his 40 years as coach of the YU Macs men’s basketball team with a special tribute and naming of the basketball court in his honor. An endowed scholarship has been established at Yeshiva College in Coach Halpert’s name to honor his significant contributions to Yeshiva University and the Maccabees...
RIETS Reunions and Shavuos Retreat
RIETS hosted a Roshei Yeshiva reunion for students of Rabbi Aharon Kahn, Rabbi Yaakov Neuberger and Rabbi Michael Rosensweig at the Jacob and Dreizel Glueck Center for Jewish Study in March. Each rosh yeshiva spoke about Pesach-related topics. Rabbi Yona Reiss, the Max and Marion Grill Dean of RIETS, declared, “It is part of our Torah tradition for students to be mekabel penei rabbo—to visit their Rebbeim on holidays...
Lights, Camera, Action: Alumni Who Work in the Entertainment Industry Are Stars Behind and In the Scenes
Ari Pinchot ’94YC always liked the movies but never considered it a potential career, instead picturing himself as a teacher. “It wasn’t until a pulpit rabbi delivered a speech about the religious themes in Star Wars that I understood that movies could impact people on a larger-scale,” said Pinchot. “It was then and there I decided I wanted to make films.”
Faculty Fast Facts
Jesse Itzkowitz earned PhDs in marketing and cognitive psychology from the University of Florida before joining Yeshiva University’s Syms School of Business in Fall 2009. His research intertwines these two disciplines and examines how consumers’ cognitive processes affect managerial strategies related to product positioning and branding. .
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Alumni Spotlights
After graduating from Stern College for Women and New York University School of Law, Naomi Maryles ’96S was set with a job at Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel LLP, a highly esteemed law firm in Manhattan. Newly married to her husband, Rabbi Bini Maryles ’97SB, ’00R, ’10AZ, she was employed at the firm for several years and was actively working her way up the corporate ladder. There was one problem: she missed putting her three children to sleep. “Anyone who says women can ‘have it all’ is wrong—there is simply no such thing,” said Maryles. “I want to dispel the myth that women can be perfect at everything they do. We need to realize that we can’t do everything 100 percent. We need to find a balance that works for each of us. For me, that was scaling back my corporate law career so I could be home with my children at a decent hour.”
After graduating from Stern College for Women and New York University School of Law, Naomi Maryles ’96S was set with a job at Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel LLP, a highly esteemed law firm in Manhattan. Newly married to her husband, Rabbi Bini Maryles ’97SB, ’00R, ’10AZ, she was employed at the firm for several years and was actively working her way up the corporate ladder. There was one problem: she missed putting her three children to sleep.
“Anyone who says women can ‘have it all’ is wrong—there is simply no such thing,” said Maryles. “I want to dispel the myth that women can be perfect at everything they do. We need to realize that we can’t do everything 100 percent. We need to find a balance that works for each of us. For me, that was scaling back my corporate law career so I could be home with my children at a decent hour.”
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