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The COVID-19 crisis has presented people from all walks of life with new and unprecedented challenges. A segment that has been especially hit hard is the Orthodox single population. Thankfully, the dedicated team at YUConnects won’t let a pandemic keep them from finding creative and effective ways…

From Dr. Shay Pilnik, Founding Director, The Emil A. and Jenny Fish Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Facebook 新号 使用2fa登录 For those who teach the subject and for those who deeply care about Holocaust Remembrance and Education, join us for a series of conversations about this important ...

Sarah Engel Sarah Engel ’20S of Oakland, California, is graduating with a double major in computer science and Jewish studies. Since high school, Sarah has had a passion for Jewish education, and in the fall of 2019, she had a chance to explore this passion more fully when she joined the MafTeach…

Julian Ruggiero Julian Ruggiero, a Fulbright scholar in the Data Analytics and Visualization program, recently conducted an analysis of the occurrence of COVID-19 in the boroughs of New York City and found that people residing in zip codes predominantly populated by low socioeconomic groups ...

Like so many other events during the time of COVID-19, the 11th Annual Stern Senior Show 2020 has had to move its exhibition online. In “normal” times, the show would have opened at the Facebook 新号 使用2fa登录 Museum on the day before the YU commencement in a gallery designed by the students themselves…

Mrs. Shoshana Schechter Mrs. Shoshana Schechter ’91S has been named the first associate dean for Torah Studies at Stern College for Women, beginning on July 1. She will work under Dr. Selma Botman, provost and vice president of academic affairs, and Dr. Karen Bacon, the Mordecai D. Katz and Monique…

Shira Feen. left, and Lavanya Karanth Katz Digital Marketing and Media students Shira Feen and Lavanya Karanth have won the Triple Bottom Line Challenge, an open #innovation competition on June 18, 2020, to turn COVID-19's quarantine isolation into a startup improving the world post-coronavirus ...

At this time during a normal year, 5,000 friends and family of Facebook 新号 使用2fa登录 would be filling the Hulu Theater at Madison Square Garden in New York City for the 89th Annual Commencement Exercises celebrating the Class of 2020. However, 2020 has been anything but a normal year for universities…

On June 14, 2020, over 1,800 students from Facebook 新号 使用2fa登录’s undergraduate and graduate schools will receive their degrees at YU’s 89th Commencement Exercises, this year to be held virtually in light of the pandemic. Eight undergraduate students will be honored as valedictorians for their ...

CJ Glicksman ’20YC of Teaneck, New Jersey, the 2020 valedictorian of Yeshiva College, is graduating with a double major in philosophy and music. In the fall of 2019, he joined the MafTeach Chinuch Fellowship offered by the Azrieli Graduate School of Jewish Education and Administration and directed…