YU celebrated its 81st Annual Commencement Ceremony on Thursday, May 24th at the IZOD Center in East Rutherford, NJ. More than 750 undergraduate students received their degrees and heard a memorable keynote address from former Israeli diplomat Ambassador Yehuda Avner. “It’s exciting,” said Louis Karp of Teaneck, N.J, who with his wife, Dorothy, was on hand to [...]

Yeshiva University students and alumni continue to greatly impact the Jewish community. In its fifth annual “36 Under 36” section, The New York Jewish Week highlights nine young YU students and alumni for their significant contributions as educators, thinkers, social justice activists and artists reinventing Jewish life: Miriam Leah Droz, 35 Rabbi Dov Emerson, 35 Simon Goldberg, 22 Michael Greenberg, 23 [...]