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On Monday, May 31, 2021, 14 Straus Scholars from the Zahava and Moshael Straus Center for Torah and Western Thought embarked on a two-day trip to Washington, D.C., led by Rabbi Dr. Meir Soloveichik (Straus Center director), Rabbi Dr. Stu Halpern (Straus senior program officer) and Sarah Wapner ...

The Emil A. and Jenny Fish Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Yeshiva University is pleased to offer a Master of Arts in Holocaust and Genocide Studies beginning in the fall semester 2021. “Holocaust Education, at its heart, is character education, which is sorely needed in today’s world…

Paul C. Gutjahr | Oxford University Press | 2018 Reviewed by Rabbi Dr. Stu Halpern The Oxford Handbook of the Bible in America, edited by Paul C. Gutjahr, is an invaluable resource on the reception of the world’s best-seller in the United States. As the editor writes: It is difficult, if not ...

At the stroke of noon on Sunday, June 6, 2021, friends, family, students and alumni of the Azrieli Graduate School of Jewish Education and Administration joined together from around the country and around the world to celebrate the graduation of the members of the class of 2021. Dr. Rona Novick ...

The faculty, students, staff, friends and family of the Ferkauf Graduate School of Psychology gathered online on Monday, May 24, 2021, to celebrate the awarding of master’s degrees and doctorates. In the course of the celebration, 13 faculty members; Dr. Arlene “Lu” Steinberg, chair of the Ferkauf…

Rabbi Dr. Ari Berman, President of Yeshiva University, delivers his address to the graduating class of 2021. UAE Ambassador Yousef Al Otaiba and former Israeli Ambassador Ron Dermer Recognize Honorary Degree Recipient Mr. Jason Greenblatt, Key Architect in Creating Abraham Accords Yeshiva…

The faculty, students, staff, friends and family of the Wurzweiler School of Social Work gathered online on Tuesday, May 25, 2021, to celebrate the awarding of certificates, master’s degrees and doctorates. Dr. Danielle Wozniak, Dorothy and David I. Schachne Dean and vice provost, began the ...

Dr. Henry (He) Huang A recent study co-authored by Dr. Henry Huang, program director of the MS in Accounting and an associate professor of accounting at Sy Syms School of Business, and Dr. Chong Wang, an assistant professor of accounting at Hong Kong Polytechnic University, and published by the ...

On Wednesday, June 2, 2021, the Shevet Glaubach Center for Career Strategy and Professional Development and alumni of Yeshiva College and Sy Syms School of Business hosted Maximize Your Finance Internship, an in-person event featuring several alumni working successfully in the finance industry ...

ISSUE 26 • June 1, 2021 Note from the Executive Director The students featured in this issue of the Career Strategist are dear to our hearts, and if we had space, we would have featured each of you. You are all special to us. We have weathered these past 14 months together, and you each provided ...