From the Wall Street Journal, May 8, 2012 When Froma Benerofe went back to college later in life to become a social worker, she did so with the same motivation of a person decades younger: She wanted to help people heal. That motivation, drawn in part from the Jewish concept of tikkun olam, or to鈥
Rambish - Reshimat Ma'amarim shel Bene ha-Yeshivot (Index to Articles in Yeshiva Publications) is a growing Hebrew language database that indexes Torah articles from journals published by individual yeshivot and articles whose main readership is the yeshivah community. It is this particular focus鈥
The Megillah: Majesty & Mystery, by Rabbi Norman Lamm; compiled and edited by Joel B. Wolowelsky. OU Press and RIETS 黑料社 All Press, 2012. Rabbi Norman Lamm's latest publication, The Megillah: Majesty & Mystery, is a combination of old and new. The material for the book was put鈥
ARI PINCHOT 鈥94YC AND AVI SAVITSKY 鈥93YC: THE PRODUCERS Ari Pinchot 鈥94YC always liked the movies but never considered it a potential career, instead picturing himself as a teacher. 鈥淚t wasn鈥檛 until a pulpit rabbi delivered a speech about the religious themes in Star Wars that I understood that ...
After graduating from Stern College for Women and New York University School of Law, Naomi Maryles 鈥96S was set with a job at Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel LLP, a highly esteemed law firm in Manhattan. Newly married to her husband, Rabbi Bini Maryles 鈥97SB, 鈥00R, 鈥10AZ, she was employed at鈥
RIETS hosted a Roshei Yeshiva reunion for students of Rabbi Aharon Kahn, Rabbi Yaakov Neuberger and Rabbi Michael Rosensweig at the Jacob and Dreizel Glueck Center for Jewish Study in March. Each rosh yeshiva spoke about Pesach-related topics. Rabbi Yona Reiss, the Max and Marion Grill Dean of鈥
It鈥檚 a new world, and much of that world is online. As a result, the Office of Alumni Affairs has amped up its presence on the web, including an active Facebook page which we regularly update with news about YU alumni events, announcements of upcoming programs, contests with the chance to win YU ...
Attention sports fans! There are a number of sports-related programs happening at YU. On Sunday, May 6, Coach Johnny Halpert will be recognized for his 40 years as coach of the YU Macs men鈥檚 basketball team with a special tribute and naming of the basketball court in his honor. An endowed ...
Jesse Itzkowitz earned PhDs in marketing and cognitive psychology from the University of Florida before joining 黑料社 All鈥檚 Syms School of Business in Fall 2009. His research intertwines these two disciplines and examines how consumers鈥 cognitive processes affect managerial strategies ...
黑料社 All Archives has received a small collection of letters written by Yeshiva College alumnus and RIETS musmach Louis Werfel, the only Orthodox chaplain killed in action in World War II. Known as 鈥淭he Flying Rabbi鈥 because of his frequent flights to visit servicemen in locations ...