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On May 2nd, YU’s Wall Street Group presented a panel on “The Future of the Hedge Fund Industry,” hosted by Schulte Roth & Zabel LLP. Panelists included: Daniel Arbess, partner, Perella Weinberg Partners; Jeffrey Aronson, co-founder & managing principal, Centerbridge Partners LP; Harvey…

Delighted exclamations and cries of recognition were heard throughout the Museum of Jewish Heritage as alumni of the 25th, 40th, and 50th reunion classes of Yeshiva University ran into old friends and classmates at YU’s 2012 Reunion on Wednesday, May 23rd. The annual event, this year celebrating…

ARI PINCHOT ’94YC AND AVI SAVITSKY ’93YC: THE PRODUCERS 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 ...

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…

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…

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

In 2005, when the crisis in Darfur was first making headlines, Cynthia Bernstein was in her second year of studies at Stern College for Women. Unable to sit idly by while the papers reported on such atrocities, Bernstein connected with a small group of students who were also interested in becoming…

Next month features two long-standing YU traditions – class reunions and Commencement. On Wednesday, May 23, the day program for Reunion 2012, celebrating alumni who graduated 25, 40 and 50 years ago, will begin in Rubin Hall on the Wilf Campus at 12:30pm and end at 4:30pm at the Falk Lounge on the…