Yeshiva University Alumni Affairs

📢Calling all alumni!

🇮🇱Now more than ever Israel needs our support. Please join YU in the Support Israel Parade on Sunday May 18th.

🔗Register now at yu.edu/israelparadealumni

Wishing all of our alumni a Chag Kasher V’Sameach!

It's Giving Day at YU! Make your gift now at yu.edu/givingday

Giving Day is Here!
Join us today and let us come together to help fund student scholarships, support faculty and enrich student experiences during a 24-hour online fundraising event.⠀
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Please give at yu.edu/givingday

✨In honor of Women’s History Month, we are honored to spotlight Dr. Doris Kraemer z”l, who made history in June 1955 as the first woman to earn a Ph.D. from Yeshiva University.

🎓As Yeshiva University celebrates its distinguished alumni, Dr. Kraemer’s story stands as a testament to perseverance, intellectual pursuit and the impact of breaking barriers in higher education and beyond.

🔗Read Dr. Kraemer’s full story: https://www.yu.edu/news/alumni/breaking-barriers-legacy-dr-doris-kraemer-yeshiva-universitys-first-woman-phd

Attention all alumni from the classes of 1964 and 1965– it's your reunion! Please join us to celebrate your 60th and 61st reunions in style.

You and your fellow alumni are invited for a private lunch, after which you’ll put on full academic attire and march at Commencement, just like you did so many years ago.

Register at yu.edu/reunion2025

Registration is required and closes April 4, 2025.

📢Save the date!

🇮🇱Now more than ever Israel needs our support. Please join YU in the Support Israel Parade on Sunday May 18th.

🎭Happy Purim from the Office of Alumni Affairs!

✨Our YU community has celebrated Purim with joy, togetherness, and fun over the years.

✡️Swipe through to see how the Purim celebrations on campus have changed over the years!

📣 Please join YU Alumni and the Shenk Women’s Beit Midrash for a night of women’s Torah learning, featuring Rabbi Mordechai Willig! 📣

✨All female alumnae are invited to Washington Heights on Wednesday night March 19th for a night of Torah, inspiration, and connection.

🔗To RSVP, please go to yu.edu/marchalumnishenklearning

**Registration is required for this event

🎓Almost 300 alumni returned to the Beit Midrash to learn with their sons and grandsons last week at YU’s third annual men’s Dor L’Dor learning program.

📖This special program gives parents a unique opportunity to learn morning seder and shiur with their sons across all levels of Torah study, both undergraduate and higher learning.

📌Stay tuned for a full recap of this amazing day!

✨On Sunday we had our second annual Women’s Yom Iyun at Stern College.

🎓We loved having so many of our alumnae return to campus to learn with their daughters and granddaughters.

🗣️We were privileged to hear from Professor Rachel Besser, Dean Rebecca Cypess, Dean Shoshana Schechter, Rabbi Aryeh Lebowitz, and Rabbi Shay Schachter.

📌Stay tuned for the full recap of this amazing event coming soon!

📌Join Yeshiva University at the Anne Frank Exhibition for a private showing of this one-of-a-kind experience.
yu.edu/annefrankexhibition

🏠Walk inside an exact replica of the annex where the Frank family hid during the Holocaust.

🗣️Hear from experts on Holocaust and genocide studies.

✡️Understand how current antisemitism in Europe connects to the Franks’ experience.

🔗Join us at yu.edu/annefrankexhibition

🏀Alumni Night at the Macs is coming!
yu.edu/alumninight2025

⛹🏻In case you needed a refresher, here are the Macs starting five:

#13 Roy Itcovichi
#55 Yoav Oselka
#12 Zevi Samet
#23 Max Zakheim
#15 Or Sundjvsky

🗓️Come see them play at the last home game of the season on February 22!

🔗Get tickets now at yu.edu/alumninight2025

✨We are spotlighting Mrs. Rachel Besser, a professor at Stern College, who is teaching at our Feb. 16 Women’s Yom Iyun, yu.edu/yomiyun2025.

🎓Mrs. Besser is a proud YU alumna. She received her bachelor’s degree from Stern College for Women and her master’s degree from Azrieli Graduate School for Jewish Education. She also holds a master’s in English literature from Hunter College.

📚Mrs. Besser currently serves as the chair of the Nach department at Yeshivat Frisch. She is also a community speaker and was a featured educator in the OU Torat Imecha Nach Yomi Program.

🎉Come hear Mrs. Besser share words of Torah on Sunday February 16th at Stern College!

🔗Register now at yu.edu/yomiyun2025

🎉Real Estate Day is Tomorrow!!

🏘️Check out our panel on Real Estate and Real Estate Capital Markets Over the Coming Five to Ten Years

🗣️Swipe through to see our esteemed panelists David Lichtenstein and Steve Rosenberg, and our moderator, Phil Rosen.

🔗Register now at yu.edu/REday25

🎉Real Estate Day is just two days away!

🏘️Check out our panel on The Future of NYC MultiFamily: Regulatory Value Destruction or Generational Buying Opportunity

🗣️Swipe through to see our esteemed panelists Salvatore Ciaravino, Adam Parkoff, Robert Nelson, and our moderator Jason Muss.

🔗Register now at yu.edu/REday25

✨Our January alumni spotlight is Erin Stiebel SCW ‘08, Azrieli ‘10✨

📌In honor of International Day of Education, we are excited to spotlight Erin Stiebel, an alumna who has served as an educator in the Jewish community for over a decade.

📚Erin teaches for Partners Detroit and also runs 4G NCSY in Detroit, in addition to being the director of NCSY GIVE for the past 16 summers.

✡️As Erin continues to inspire those around her, she remains a shining example of someone who combines Torah values with heartfelt dedication to the next generation.

🔗Read Erin’s full spotlight at the link in our bio

🎉YU Real Estate Day is one week away!

🏬Check out our panel on The Future of Development: Future Proofing Through Innovations in Urban Development and Redevelopment.

🗣️Swipe through to see our esteemed panelists, Melissa Burch, Jake Elghanayan, Ken Horn, and our moderator, Jane Gol.

🔗Register now at yu.edu/REday25

🎉Join us for YU Alumni Night at the Macs!

🏀Bring your family and come watch the Macs in their last home game of the season!

📍Yeshiva University Wilf Campus

🗓️Saturday Night, February 22, 2025

🕐Dairy dinner at 7:30PM, tip-off at 8:30PM