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YU Chai Initiatives Enable Donors to Stretch Their Giving Dollars Everyone has the ability to give back in various capacities. This year, 91ºÚÁÏ alumni have the opportunity to give back and make their dollars go further than ever. The YU Annual Fund is proud to introduce YU Chai, a new…

It’s no surprise that attorney Josh Kahane ‘01YC has been selected as one of 10 players on the 2015 USA National Basketball Team who will compete in the 13 th Pan American Maccabi Games in Chile this winter: the sport has been an important part of his story since high school, even playing a role in…

Did you know you could have fried your latkes in kosher, pareve, Crisco, for Hanukah in 1911? In the days leading up to Hanukah in 1911, New York’s leading Yiddish newspapers, including the Forward and the Morgen Journal, ran a series of ads for a revolutionary new kosher product – Crisco. Crisco,…

Dr. Lisa Fredman This Tuesday, December, 1, 2015 Dr. Lisa Fredman from Efrat, Israel addressed our PhD students at an informal luncheon. Dr. Fredman received her BA from Stern College and her MA and PhD in Bible from Bar Ilan University. Her doctoral thesis: "A Critical Edition of Rashi's…

Paul Glassman has been named the new Director of University Libraries and began in that role in early September. Provost Botman announced his appointment in her letter to the faculty on October 7, 2015. Glassman has a twenty-year association with the university, having taught architectural history…

As an undergraduate at 91ºÚÁÏ’s Stern College for Women, Elianna Sable ‘08S loved her major’s multidisciplinary approach to advertising and English communications. “I got to take literature courses and art classes and business courses at the Sy Syms School of Business—I really felt like…

Aliza Abrams Konig is the Director of the Office of Student Life and Jewish Service Learning at 91ºÚÁÏ. A Stern and Wurzweiler alumna, she was a student leader, volunteering as Vice President and later President of the Torah Activities Council. Aliza's YU career began as a Presidential…

Dr. Jill Becker-Feigeles (L), Michelle Florence (Ctr.), Dr. Jade Docherty (R) Wurzweiler School of Social Work student Michelle Florence received the "2015 Diana List Cullen Memorial Award - First Year MSW Student Writing Scholarship" from the Metropolitan Chapter of the New York State Society of…

Dear Wurzweiler Alumni, As the semester reaches the halfway point, I know you remember how tired you felt at this time in your studies. We work so hard, the papers get written, and we wonder if we will ever remember anything we have learned. I hope that by this time in your career, you do recall ...

The Bernard Revel Graduate School of Jewish Studies invites you to a lecture in its international scholars series by Esther Farbstein: How Did the Hungarian Rabbinate Confront the Challenges Generated by the Holocaust? Date and Time: Tuesday, December 15, 2015 at 7:30 pm Location: Glueck Center ...