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COMMENCEMENT CONGRATULATIONS CLASS OF 2023

UNDERGRADUATE COMMENCEMENT

nological shield that protects Israel—will be YU’s keynote speaker and receive YU’s Presidential Medallion; Emil A. Fish, a Holocaust survivor and founder and benefactor of the Emil A. and Jenny Fish Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies, will receive an honorary doctorate. Over 1,700 students from Yeshiva College, Stern College for Women, Syms School of Business and graduate programs will receive degrees. READ MORE

YU’s 92nd Annual Commencement Ceremony will be held on Tuesday, May 23, at 2 p.m. at the legendary Theater at Madison Square Garden in New York City. The program will honor Jewish identity by commemorating the Holocaust and Israel’s 75th anniversary. Two individuals will be recognized for their representation of Jewish people on the world stage. Brig.-Gen. (ret.) Dr. Daniel Gold, inventor of the revolutionary Iron Dome—the tech-

GRADUATE SCHOOL COMMENCEMENTS AND CELEBRATIONS

Ferkauf Graduate School of Psychology Thursday, May 18, Noon Lamport Auditorium • Speaker: Dr. Alice D. Domar, Chief Compassion Officer and Director of Research, Inception Associate Professor of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Biology, part-time, Harvard Medical School Bernard Revel Graduate School of Jewish Studies Sunday, May 21, Noon Sky Cafe, Belfer Hall • Speakers: Rabbi Dr. Itamar Rosensweig ’22R; Dr. Jonathan Dauber, Director of PhD Program, Revel Albert Einstein College of Medicine Wednesday, May 24, 3 p.m. David Geffen Hall, Lincoln Center • Speaker: Robert W. Marion, ’79E, MD, Distinguished University Professor Emeritus, Albert Einstein College of Medicine Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law Monday, June 5, 3 p.m. David Geffen Hall, Lincoln Center • Speaker: Hon. Joseph A. Greenaway, Jr., U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit

Azrieli Graduate School of Jewish Education and Administration Wednesday, May 10, 7 p.m. Weissberg Commons • Speaker: Rabbi Yaakov Glasser, Managing Director of Communal Engagement at the Orthodox Union Katz School of Science and Health Monday, May 15, 11 a.m. Weissberg Commons • Speakers: Dr. Rafael Reyes, Director of Graduate Student Life & Community Engagement, Katz School; Humayra Kausar, M.S. in Data Analytics and Visualization ’22K; Julie Gurgova, Occupational Therapy Doctorate ’23K Wurzweiler School of Social Work Tuesday, May 16, 1 p.m. Lamport Auditorium • Speaker: Jay S. Schachne MD, FACC, Clinical Associate Professor of Medicine, Warren Alpert School of Medicine, Brown University

AND Thursday, July 20, 1 p.m. Lamport Auditorium

• Speaker: William Fletcher, LCSW, Deputy Commissioner, Division of Child Protection, NYC Administration for Children’s Services Graduate Program in Advanced Talmudic Studies for Women Wednesday, May 17, 10 a.m. Stern College for Women, Beit Midrash • Speakers: Rabbi Dr. Ari Berman; Shoshana Schechter, Associate Dean of Torah Studies and Spiritual Life

For more information visit yu.edu/commencement

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