Torat Adam / Discover Your Potential
Torat Chaim / Live Your Values
IN MEMORIAN
YU Students Experience Morocco As part of YU’s “Global Citizenship 2023,” over 30 participants spent a week in Morocco exploring Jewish heritage sites, befriending Moroccan Jews, praying at the gravesites of great rabbis, repairing tombstones in the Jewish cemetery, building bridges with Muslim university students and more. Accom- panying the group was President Rabbi Dr. Ari Berman, Dr. Erica Brown, Rabbi Ari Rockoff and Terri and Andrew Herenstein.
Stern Women Perform Mousetrap Hundreds turned out to see Agatha Christie’s iconic murder mystery at the Schottenstein Theater, starring a stellar ensemble cast from the Stern College Dramatics Society. Back from the pandemic, the production showcased a rebuilt professional theater company, one that has been giving Orthodox women a stage since the 1950s. Stern and Yeshiva College Honors Programs Fall Recap Both the S. Daniel Abraham Honors Program at Stern College for Women and the Jay and Jeanie Schottenstein Honors Program at Yeshiva College offered dynamic programming for Honors students in the fall semester. Stern Honors events included a visit to the popular plays Leopoldstadt and Fiddler on the Roof in Yiddish; a tour of the United Nations; and a visit from Cardozo Law School’s Dr. Michelle Greenberg-Kobrin. YC Honors events included the annual Nobel Nanosecond Party as well as discussions with Dr. Ronen Shoval, Rabbi Dr. Zev Eleff and Dr. Erica Brown.
Rabbi Moshe Kahn z”l The entire YU community mourns the passing of Rabbi Moshe Kahn z”l ’72YC,
’75R, ’79R-YY, a Torah giant and the cornerstone of the Judaic Studies department at Stern College for Women. His life’s mission was to teach Torah on a high level to any woman who wanted
U.S. Senators Secure $1.5 million for Lamport Auditorium Thanks to the advocacy of Sen. Chuck Schumer and Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, YU is pleased to announce a $1.5 million grant to restore the Nathan Lamport Auditorium on the Wilf Campus. Proposed renovations to the historic auditorium were among the projects included in the bipartisan federal omnibus spending package for fiscal year 2023 signed into law in December by President Biden. Under this new federal spending package, the funding will restore the auditorium’s celebrated Art Deco and Moorish-Gothic Revival architecture to its original splendor. The auditorium will also receive important modernizations, such as cutting-edge audio-visual technologies. Senator Chuck Schumer speaks at Lamport Auditorium with YU President Rabbi Ari Berman looking on.
to learn, and his high standards and incredible humility were trademarks of his career at Stern College, Yeshiva College and GPATS. A shloshim (30 days after his passing) for Rabbi Kahn will take place on Monday, Feb. 20 at 8 p.m. in the 7th floor Beit Midrash at 245 Lexington Avenue in New York City. Tobias (Teddy) Berman z”l Rabbi Dr. Ari Berman, President of YU, spoke about his father, Teddy Berman ’62YC, at his shloshim . Rabbi Berman remembered his father’s life and legacy as a man of great ideals who lived by the axiom that G-d gives us gifts and it is our responsibility to take care of His people. Second Annual American Dream Mall Hanukkah Takeover a Huge Success On Tuesday, Dec. 20, the third night of Hanukkah, the Yeshiva University student councils, in collaboration with the Office of Student Life (OSL), hosted a Hanukkah takeover of the America Dream Mall. Over 1,000 people attended the joyous evening, bringing together undergraduate students from across YU’s various programs as well as faculty, staff and their families.
President Rabbi Dr. Ari Berman delivering a speech at a BYU Forum at Brigham Young University in Utah on Jan. 31. He discussed the vital role faith-based education plays in the health of America.
Message From The President
(l–r) Yosef Morrison and Abraham Kanter help to restore graves in the Miaara Jewish Cemetery in Marrakesh.
My Dear Friends, Students and Colleagues,
At home and across the world, YU has been busy actualizing our core values. Showcasing Torat Adam , our students expanded their horizons through firsthand encounters with the people and heritage of Morocco; embodying the essence of Torat Chesed , YU in Israel opened the first therapy center serving the English-speaking population; Torat Emet is manifest in the rare manuscripts and other items hand-written by Maimonides that will appear in the Yeshiva University Museum exhibit; exemplifying Torat Chaim , longtime YU friends Sen. Chuck Schumer and Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand secured $1.5 million in federal funding to renovate YU’s historic Lamport auditorium; and Azrieli hosted World Zionist Organization educators for a day of enrichment in a unique collaboration between the Diaspora and Israeli educator communities, expressing Torat Tzion —the light of redemption.
Torat Tzion / Bring Redemption
YU Israel and Azrieli Graduate School Host WZO Educators In a unique collaboration between YU and the Jerusalem-based World Zionist Organization, Azrieli’s expert teaching faculty hosted a day of professional enrichment for 85 Israeli educators serving in Jewish communities throughout the Diaspora.
Wishing you much continued success and a spring semester filled with joy, meaning and personal growth.
(l–r) Rabbi Dr. Ari Berman, Rav Hershel Schachter, Israeli President Isaac Herzog and Rebbetzin Schachter at a recent event honoring Rav Schachter that took place at President Herzog’s residence. Rav Schachter was presented with a 50th jubilee volume of the Encyclopedia Talmudit, which is dedicated in his honor.
Rabbi Dr. Ari Berman President, Yeshiva University
Morim Shlichim delegation visiting from the World Zionist Organization’s education department.
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