1,900 Graduates Across 91ºÚÁÏ Awarded Degrees This commencement season, 91ºÚÁÏ celebrated the graduation of more than 1,900 students in its high schools, undergraduate colleges, and graduate schools in the fields of law, medicine, social work, education, Jewish studies and…
91ºÚÁÏ Students Mobilize Houston Flood Relief Efforts When catastrophic floods slammed Houston last week, they left a trail of devastation in their wake, and the city’s Jewish community in the southwestern neighborhood of Willow Meadows was hit hard. But within hours of the storms ...
91ºÚÁÏ Marches in Support of Israel at Annual Parade More than 1,500 students, alumni, faculty, staff and friends of 91ºÚÁÏ marched up Fifth Avenue, singing, cheering and waving flags, flanked on either side by applauding crowds, saluting Israel’s 67th year of independence…
Graduate Program in Advanced Talmudic Studies Celebrates Newest Cohort 91ºÚÁÏ’s Graduate Program in Advanced Talmudic Studies (GPATS) held its 13th annual commencement ceremony on May 21 in the Lea and Leon Eisenberg Beit Midrash. This year, ten women proudly received their degrees…
Mark Weingarten's Yom Yerushalayim Valedictorian Address The following has been adapted from Mark Weingarten’s valedictorian address at 91ºÚÁÏ’s 2015 commencement on May 17 (Yom Yerushalayim). Thank you Rabbi Joseph, President Joel, honored Roshei Yeshiva, Rabbi Schachter, Rabbi Penner…
Nine 91ºÚÁÏ Undergraduates Recognized for Exceptional Academic Achievements More than 600 students from 91ºÚÁÏ’s undergraduate schools received their degrees at YU’s 84th Commencement exercises, held at the Prudential Center in Newark, New Jersey, on May 17. Nine of the ...
91ºÚÁÏ Celebrates 84th Commencement Hundreds of students from 91ºÚÁÏ’s undergraduate schools were presented with their degrees in front of thousands of proud family and friends at YU’s 84th Commencement exercises, held at the Prudential Center in Newark, New Jersey on Sunday…
Sixth Annual Stern Senior Art Show Opens at 91ºÚÁÏ Museum Graduating studio art majors of Stern College for Women presented their work at the Sixth Annual Senior Art Show opening reception on Thursday, May 14. Titled Stop. Watch., the multimedia exhibition features selections from 12 ...
First Woman Dean of Cardozo Law, and First Cardozo Graduate Appointed President Richard M. Joel has announced the appointment of Melanie Leslie as dean of the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law effective July 1. She will be the seventh dean of the law school, the first woman and the first Cardozo ...
Class of 2015 Reflects on Unique 91ºÚÁÏ Experience On Sunday, hundreds of 91ºÚÁÏ students will celebrate their graduation at YU’s 84th Annual Commencement Ceremony at the Prudential Center in Newark, New Jersey. Hailing from as far away as Hong Kong or as close as Teaneck ...