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As an undergraduate at Yeshiva University’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 Yeshiva University. 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…

When he began his academic career at Yeshiva University’s Yeshiva College, Joey Small (‘05YC ‘09BR ‘13A) knew he was in the right place to further the values he’d grown up with in Los Angeles, California—a life dedicated to Jewish living and learning, deeply rooted in both spiritual and worldly ...

Shuey Jacoby is the Executive Director of Yeshiva University High Schools. A YU and MTA Alumnus, he spent a year as the Jesselson Family Presidential Fellow for the YU High School for Boys (MTA). Shuey then became the Director of Admissions at MTA before leaving to attend NYU Stern School of ...

Dr. Ariel Malka, associate professor of Psychology at Yeshiva College, was recently granted tenure. He graduated with a BA from the University of Rochester, with an MA and PhD from the University of California, Berkeley. He is a social/personality psychologist who studies political psychology and…

YU recently d eveloped the Blue & White Club, the official booster club of the Yeshiva University Maccabees, and it has now added the Young Alumni Board (YAB) to ramp up athletic alumni involvement. “Alumni involvement in college athletics is part and parcel of college athletics,” said Josh…

In 2004, a group of Central High School and Stern College for Women alumni banded together to form ACHI (“my brother”), an acronym for American Communities Helping Israel. The organization, which was founded during a time when Israel was suffering from a lack of tourists, seeks to create ...

Diana (Benmergui) Chadi '05S, '10W has been the university registrar for Yeshiva University since 2011. Previously, she served as the associate registrar at the Beren Campus for five years and as a presidential fellow in 2005-2006. She received her BA from Stern College for Women in 2005, her MSW…

As the newest CEO of Genie Retail Energy, Inc.—which includes IDT Energy, one of the largest independent suppliers of electricity and natural gas to those who live in the Eastern United States—Michael Stein ’07YC has no small job before him. But, he said, he’s up for the task, and partially because…

Before he became the Associate Director of Operations in the Office of Admissions at Yeshiva University—his current position— Matthew Schwartz ’04YUHS, ’11YC, spent a year (2011-2012) working in Admissions as a Presidential Fellow, where he gained valuable insight into the nature of both admissions…