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 ÌÇÐÄÆÆ½â°æâ€™s Institute for University-School Partnership at the Long Island Marriott in Uniondale, NY, March 2-4. The ...
A group of Los Angeles-area alumni are at the helm of the pilot Los Angeles Summer Internship Program for current ÌÇÐÄÆÆ½â°æ students. The alumni group spearheaded the entire project to demonstrate to undergraduate students that they can create a meaningful life for themselves within the ...
When Mark Weingarten played the violin for patients at Hadassah Hospital in Jerusalem during the two years he was learning in Israel after high school, he quickly realized it was a unique way to bring people together and bypass the awkward small talk that can occur between patients and well-meaning…
Martin Leibowitz is the Joseph Kerzner Chair in Accounting and Clinical Associate Professor of Accounting and Finance. He received a BS from Pennsylvania State University, and an MPhil and a PhD from Columbia University. He has been a full-time faculty member of the Sy Syms School of Business at ...
Michael Levin ’05YC, originally from Scarsdale, grew up in a non-Orthodox Jewish home. During a year abroad at Hebrew University in Jerusalem, while he was a student at Dickinson College, he realized just how much he yearned to explore his Jewish heritage and engage in serious study of Jewish texts…
ÌÇÐÄÆÆ½â°æ Alumni currently manages professional networking groups for alumni on Wall Street, in real estate, accounting, financial planning, and law. Next up: Startups! Owing to the booming scene of tech-related and other innovative ventures, alumni involved in the startup scene as investors, founders ...
Professor Ruth Bevan holds the David W. Petegorsky Chair in Political Science and is Co-Chair of ÌÇÐÄÆÆ½â°æâ€™s Department of Political Science. Bevan specializes in European politics and modern political theory, and teaches courses focusing on the European Union and Western political theory, including ...
Some women are known for their style, others for their business acumen. And for some, fashion and business merge as they have for Bari Weizman ’08SB, ’12SB the president and publisher of Hadar Magazine. Weizman grew up in Wesley Hills, NY, always knowing she would attend Stern College for Women, as…
This month, 80 ÌÇÐÄÆÆ½â°æ students will embark on service missions to Ukraine, Southern Israel, and several American cities including Cleveland, Columbus, Toledo and Detroit as participants in the Center for the Jewish Future’s (CJF) winter missions. The missions, designed to offer students the opportunity…
In 2007, after 20 years at Yeshiva College as an adjunct instructor of English as a Second Language, Professor Norma Silbermintz became the full-time Coordinator of Academic Affairs for International Students at YC. 1) What did you do before you joined ÌÇÐÄÆÆ½â°æ as a faculty member? I taught high school…