Rabbi Hayyim Angel is the National Scholar of the Institute for Jewish Ideas and Ideals (jewishideas.org). He has taught advanced Bible courses to undergraduate, graduate, and rabbinical students at Yeshiva University since 1996, and lectures widely. He has published over 130 scholarly articles, primarily in Bible, and is author or editor of fifteen books. His scholarship focuses on the […]

When Yoel Kelman graduated from Yeshiva University’s Sy Syms School of Business in 2006, he felt he was well-prepared for a career in finance, business and accounting. But his passions would eventually take him in a different direction: energy efficiency.

Kelman, who grew up in Baltimore, Maryland, came to Sy Syms as an early […]

It’s no surprise that attorney Josh Kahane ‘01YC has been selected as one of 10 players on the 2015 USA National Basketball Team who will compete in the 13th Pan American Maccabi Games in Chile this winter: the sport has been an important part of his story since high school, even playing […]

As an undergraduate at Yeshiva University’s Stern College for Women, Elianna Sable ‘08S loved her major’s multidisciplinary approach to advertising and English communications. “I got to take literature courses and art classes and business courses at the Sy Syms School of Business—I really felt like I was taking advantage of all the different aspects […]

When he began his academic career at Yeshiva University’s Yeshiva College, Joey Small (‘05YC ‘09BR ‘13A) knew he was in the right place to further the values he’d grown up with in Los Angeles, California—a life dedicated to Jewish living and learning, deeply rooted in both spiritual and worldly knowledge and a commitment to the […]

In 2004, a group of Central High School and Stern College for Women alumni banded together to form ACHI (“my brother”), an acronym for American Communities Helping Israel. The organization, which was founded during a time when Israel was suffering from a lack of tourists, seeks to create opportunities to raise awareness about the […]