Over 350 guests attended the 37th annual Sy Syms Awards Dinner last month at the Museum of Jewish Heritage in Battery Park.
Guests from the entire Sy Syms community, including students, faculty, staff, alumni, board members and families heard remarks from Dean Noam Wasserman, Associate Dean Michael Strauss; Fleur Hassan-Nahoum, keynote speaker and former Deputy Mayor of Jerusalem; Mila Krugman, Hadaya Fried and Andrew Jacobson, Sy Syms co-presidents; Ahuva Abraham and Moshe Wolff, valedictorians; Professor Steve Mayer (Professor of the Year) and Rabbi Daniel Rapp (Adjunct Professor of the Year), in addition to other award presenters.
This year’s dinner was especially unique for two reasons: First, the creation of the inaugural Sy Syms Guardian of Israel Award, given to three Syms students who returned to Israel to serve after October 7, as well as the keynote speaker, Fleur Hassan-Nahoum.
Second, it was the first Syms Dinner where both undergraduate and graduate students were included in the Beta Gamma Sigma International Business Honors Society Ceremony, honoring the top 10% of business students in the nation. There were 27 inductees from Yeshiva University/Sy Syms School of Business in total; 23 undergrads and 4 master‘s students.
The bulk of the evening was the bestowing of the student awards, which are listed below:
Dean Harold Nierenberg Valedictorian Award
Ahuva Abraham and Moshe Wolff
Bernard Brown Salutatorian Award for Excellence in Business Studies
Sarah Zaionz and Jacob (Koby) Rosinsky
Dr. Joseph Kerzner Award for Outstanding Achievement in Accounting
Hannah Poupko
Harry R. Mancher Award for Excellence in Accounting
Eliana Scheiner
Henry Brout Award for Superior Scholarship in Accounting
Avraham Yaakov Gellman
Joseph Herbst Award for Excellence in Accounting
Jake Schochet
Dean's Award for Scholastic Achievement in Business Analytics
Yonah Drazin and Andrew Katz
Dean's Award for Scholastic Achievement in Finance
Miriam Edery, Nathaniel Simantov and Yishai Mandel
Dean's Award for Scholastic Achievement in Marketing
Ari Morgenstern and Liana Friedman
Dean's Award for Scholastic Achievement in Strategy & Entrepreneurship
Andrew Jacobson and Eli Schloss
Professor Joel Hochman Memorial Award for Leadership and Service
Mila Krugman
President Emeritus Richard Joel Award for Presidential Leadership
Mila Krugman
Andrew Jacobson
Hadaya Fried
Deans Award for Service & Character
Jacob Steinberg
Gillian Herszage
Hannah Kotler
Adi Markovich
Moshe Nasser
Tova Hakakian
Sy Syms Guardian of Israel Award
Elan Roffe
Jonah Eisenberg
Kovi Pahmer
Fleur Hassan-Nahoum (Keynote Speaker)
Professor of the Year Award
Professor Steven Mayer
Adjunct Professor of the Year Award
Rabbi Daniel Rapp
The Sy Syms School of Business would like to thank its student council presidents Mila Krugman, Andrew Jacobson and Hadaya Fried, YU's Office of Student Life and the Museum of Jewish Heritage for a beautiful evening honoring its graduating awardees.
The full event album can be seen here or at yu.edu/SySymsDinner2024Flickr
