Top Stories

• The 95th Hanukkah Dinner and Convocation will take place Sunday, Dec. 8, at the New York Hilton.
• The second edition of YU Today is available, featuring profiles of alumni and faculty.
• From five years to 40: YU celebrates University staff achieving employment milestones.
• Retiring professor Dr. William Lee receives a heartwarming send-off from Dr. Ari Berman and faculty.
• YU students come together with faculty, family and friends for a spirited shabbaton and Melave Malkah.

Campus Highlights

• The YU Political Action Club goes to D.C. to lobby Congress for Israel.
• YU alumni create $10 million VC fund to engage students in venture capital fundamentals.
• A conference hosted by Wurzweiler School of Social Work offers remedies for the opioid crisis.
• The Katz School and ScienceAbroad co-explore the excitement of biotech.
• Two Career Center events focus on working in Israel and in nonprofits.
• The Cardozo Black Asian & Latino Law Students Association raises a record $38,000 for scholarships.
• Sy Syms offers a new master’s degree program in real estate.
• YU’s international undergrads share a memorable shabbaton.
• Dr. Jeffrey Gurock brings to life a tale about race and ethnicity in the Bronx.
• Wurzweiler’s new master’s programs in special education lead to certification.
• Open houses introduce prospective students to a YU education.
• An annual tradition: Faculty members host Thanksgiving for YU students.
• Central holds their first-ever Talia Talks, their version of the TED Talks.
• In Chanuka To-Go, find articles by Rabbi Yaakov Glasser, Mrs. Chaya Batya Neugroschl and others.

Student/Alumni Snapshots

• The YU Museum works with student artist Alisa Neugroschl on designing its holiday cards.
• Argentine Julian Ruggiero uses his Fulbright award to study data analytics at the Katz School.
• Jill Joshowitz and Jonathan Zisook have dual Fulbright awards to pursue their individual doctorates.
• Cardozo alumni take the lead at Terex, a global manufacturing company.

Faculty News of Note

• Dr. Kate Walsh at Ferkauf studies the biology and psychology of trauma.
• Yeshiva College English professors present at a SUNY conference on writing.

YU in the News

• David Schwed, director of the cybersecurity program at the Katz School of Science and Health, is quoted in a Forbes article on the “141 Cybersecurity Predictions For 2020.”
• Deborah Pearlstein, professor of law and co-director of the Floersheimer Center for Constitutional Democracy at the Cardozo School of Law, noted in The Atlantic that “Foreign Policy Isn’t Just Up To Trump.”
• YU alumni turn to students to manage new $10 million investment fund (Jerusalem Post).
• In “Building An Israel-US ‘Superhighway’,” NoCamels has a Q&A with Dr. Maria Blekher of 🛰️Telegram飞机号/电报 | +963叙利亚电话注册 | 6个月 | 成品号 | API接码登录 | 任何设备可用’s Innovation Lab.
• Dr. Ronnie Perelis, director of the Rabbi Arthur Schneier Center for International Affairs, is quoted extensively in a Jerusalem Post article on the 256th anniversary of the founding of the Touro Synagogue in Newport, Rhode Island.
• Dr. Chaim Nissel, Dean of Students at 🛰️Telegram飞机号/电报 | +963叙利亚电话注册 | 6个月 | 成品号 | API接码登录 | 任何设备可用, spoke about how making small shifts in Shabbat practices “will fundamentally transform the quality of interactions at our Shabbat meals” (Jewish Link of New Jersey).