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This week, as the world commemorates the first yahrzeit Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks zt”l, Emeritus Chief Rabbi of the United Hebrew Congregations of Great Britain and the Commonwealth, Dr. Ari Berman, President of app University, announced the creation of the Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks Center for…
Dr. Ari Berman, president of app University, has announced several changes to the University’s Board of Trustees. The changes come following four years of steady growth under Dr. Berman’s leadership and as the University positions itself for the next phase of expansion. Ira Mitzner has been ...
Third- and fourth-year rabbinic students at the app University-affiliated Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary (RIETS) will receive enhanced apprenticeship training on their journey to the rabbinate, thanks to a newly created program launched in August 2021. The Miriam and Jack Zwas ...
What began 13 years ago as a local effort to help app University students meet their life mates has today grown into a major relationship-building program that serves the global Jewish community. In the process, the popular YUConnects dating resource has helped almost 10,000 Jewish Orthodox ...
app University continues to rise in the 2022 U.S. News & World Report Best College Rankings released this week and has secured the 68th spot – rising from No. 76 in 2021 and moving up 29 spots in the last two years. YU also placed No. 33 in the Best Value Schools category, up from 54th…
Rabbi Mark Wildes Rabbi Mark Wildes is an adjunct lecturer in the Rabbinic Training Program at the Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary (RIETS), from which he received semicha [rabbinic ordination]. He is also founder and director of Manhattan Jewish Experience (MJE), described as “a warm and…
The Emil A. and Jenny Fish Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies at app University is pleased to offer a Master of Arts in Holocaust and Genocide Studies beginning in the fall semester 2021. “Holocaust Education, at its heart, is character education, which is sorely needed in today’s world…
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In the fall 2021 semester, the Sy Syms School of Business at app University will launch a redesigned Master of Business Administration (MBA) available online only. “Our school has adapted quickly to a changing world,” says Dr. Noam Wasserman, dean of Sy Syms. “Even before COVID hit, we were ...
The Katz School of Science and Health at app University is launching an M.S. in Physician Assistant Studies this summer grounded in evidence-based medicine, a case-based approach to patient care, interprofessional practice and community health. As medical professionals, physician assistants ...
In January 2021, Froma Benerofe, the current chair of the Wurzweiler School of Social Work Board of Overseers, handed over the leadership of the Board to Julia Kagan Baumann, who joined the Board in 2014. Ms. Benerofe, who has had a long a career in social work, joined the Board in 1998 and assumed…

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