YU News

The siren call of the beach and vacation was put on hold while YU’s professional networking groups organized two outstanding events for alumni and industry professionals in June. On Thursday, June 19, the YU Wall Street Group presented “Current Trends in Activist Investing” featuring Peter W. May…

The 5 th annual Stern Student Art Show is on display at the Yeshiva University Museum at the Center for Jewish History through July 27. The multimedia exhibition features selections from studio art majors in the class of 2014. The studio art program, part of Stern College’s Jewish and liberal arts…

Dr. Yitzchak Schechter ’95YC, ’99F knows all about the problems facing the Orthodox Jewish community, among them mental health issues, the so-called “shidduch crisis,” and kids at risk. But to find the data to support the theories of these communal issues, Schechter founded the Applied Research and…

On the occasion of his 70 th reunion from Yeshiva College, Rabbi Dr. Menachem Raab reflects on a life that took him from his hometown of Philadelphia, to New York to pursue a YU education followed by an array of professional jobs in New York, New Jersey, and Florida, to making Aliyah not once, but…

Yeshiva University is known to have many alumni families in which multiple relatives attended YU, received multiple degrees, and proclaims, “we are YU through and through!” But for those celebrating milestone reunions alongside fellow family members, they have a special opportunity to reflect on ...

Dr. Karen Bacon ’64S, was the valedictorian of her graduating class and went on to receive a PhD in microbiology from UCLA, where she was a National Institutes of Health Predoctoral Fellow and a United States Public Health Service Doctoral Trainee. She subsequently taught at the University of ...

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 Yeshiva University, 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 Yeshiva University’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 Yeshiva University’s Institute for University-School Partnership at the Long Island Marriott in Uniondale, NY, March 2-4. The ...