Yeshiva University#Rankings

Yeshiva University has its roots in the Etz Chaim Yeshiva founded in 1886 on the Lower East Side of Manhattan, a cheder-style elementary school founded by Eastern European immigrants that offered study of Talmud along with some secular education, including instruction in English.{{Citation needed|date=May 2012}} The rabbinical seminary was chartered in 1897.

When Lamm took office in 1976, Yeshiva was facing a serious financial crisis. As a result, some of the schools and programs had to be consolidated or closed. The renowned Belfer Graduate School of Science was closed in 1978.{{Cite news |last=Maeroff |first=Gene |date=November 15, 1981 |title=Yeshiva U., Once Almost Bankrupt, Eagerly Awaits Final Debt Payment |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1981/11/15/nyregion/yeshiva-u-once-almost-bankrupt-eagerly-awaits-final-debt-payment.html?searchResultPosition=1 |access-date= |work=The New York Times |pages=58}} Once this was stabilized, additional divisions were added: For example, the Sy Syms School of Business, with divisions for both the undergraduate men and women was opened in 1988. At this time, many of the undergraduate students began to spend their first year (or more) studying in yeshivot and other schools in Israel], which has become an almost universal practice, and a Joint Israel Program regulating these studies was established to allow them to receive credit for this year at Yeshiva. RIETS also maintains a campus in Jerusalem, and many of the rabbinic students spend a year studying there as well. Over the course of Lamm's tenure, enrollment grew considerably to over 2000 undergraduate students. In addition to its undergraduate schools and affiliates, Yeshiva maintains graduate schools in Jewish studies, Jewish education and administration, social work, psychology, law, and medicine. There are over fifteen schools in total. In addition, numerous joint undergraduate-graduate programs with other schools in the New York area and beyond are maintained. The Yeshiva University Museum, an affiliate of the school, is now one of the components of the Center for Jewish History, located in downtown Manhattan.

Under Joel's leadership, Yeshiva University's endowment was invested in high-risk investments, including the funds of Bernard Madoff. Losses of at least $110 million resulted.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/23/nyregion/23yeshiva.html |date=2008-12-13 |title=Betrayed by Madoff, Yeshiva U. Adds a Lesson |work=New York Times|author=Hernandez, Javier}} In early 2014, Moody's lowered the school's bond rating by five steps to B1, junk bond level.{{cite news |url=https://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-01-22/madoff-haunts-yeshiva-as-university-slides-to-junk-muni-credit.html |date=2014-01-22 |title= Madoff Haunts Yeshiva as University Slides to Junk: Muni Credit |author=McDonald, Michael, Chappatta, Brian |publisher=Bloomberg }} To raise funds and cut costs, Yeshiva University has sold off real estate, and transferred control of the Albert Einstein College of Medicine to Montefiore Medical Center.{{cite news |url=http://www.wnyc.org/story/struggling-yeshiva-university-sells-properties-hands-med-school-fix-finances/ |title=Struggling Yeshiva University Sells Properties, Hands Off Med School |date=2014-05-30 |author=Lewis, Robert |publisher=WNYC News |location=New York}}

Joel created the Yeshiva University Center for the Jewish Future, folding other programs, both from within and from outside YU, into it.

In December 2012, Joel apologized over allegations that two rabbis at the college's high school campus abused boys there in the late 1970s and early 1980s.{{cite web |title=Yeshiva University president apologizes for '70s and '80s molest allegations |author1=Blau, Reuven |author2=Rachel Monahan |url=http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/yeshiva-university-president-apologizes-1970s-80s-molestations-article-1.1219938 |publisher=New York Daily News |date=13 December 2012 |accessdate=26 August 2013}}{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/14/nyregion/report-of-sexual-abuse-rattles-manhattan-yeshiva-campus.html|title=Report of '80s Sexual Abuse Rattles Yeshiva Campus|date=14 December 2012|work=New York Times}} Investigations into these allegations by The Jewish Daily ForwardBerger, Paul, (Jane Eisner, ed.), [http://forward.com/articles/168012/yeshiva-officials-rabbis-knew-of-alleged-abuse/?p=all "Yeshiva Officials, Rabbis Knew of Alleged Abuse"], The Forward, 20 December 2012 (issue of 28 December 2012). Via Yerachmiel Lopin's Frum Follies blog. Retrieved 25 December 2012. and a law firm hired by the university{{cite news |url=http://chronicle.com/blogs/ticker/yeshiva-u-mishandled-sex-abuse-allegations-until-2001-report-says/65223 |title=Yeshiva U. Mishandled Sex-Abuse Allegations Until 2001, Report Says |newspaper=The Chronicle of Higher Education |author=Nick DeSantis |date=28 August 2013 |accessdate=28 August 2013}} found "multiple instances in which the university either failed to appropriately act to protect the safety of its students or did not respond to the allegations at all." These allegations led to a 380 million dollar lawsuit by former students.{{cite web |url=http://forward.com/articles/180007/former-yu-high-school-students-file-m-suit-cla/ |title=Former Y.U. High School Students File $380M Suit Claiming Sex Abuse Cover-Up |author=Paul Berger |publisher=The Jewish Daily Forward |date=8 July 2013 |accessdate=26 August 2013}} The case has since been dismissed.{{cite web |url=https://nypost.com/2014/01/30/judge-tosses-380m-sex-abuse-lawsuit-against-yeshiva/ |title=Judge tosses $680M sex abuse lawsuit against Yeshiva U. |work=New York Post |date=30 January 2014 |accessdate=15 August 2014}}

In 2012 the Middle States Commission on Higher Education warned the university "that its accreditation may be in jeopardy because of insufficient evidence that the institution is currently in compliance with Standard 10 (Faculty) and Standard 14 (Assessment of Student Learning)." On June 26, 2014, the Middle State Commission on Higher Education, which accredits the university "reaffirmed accreditation", but requested a progress report "evidence that student learning assessment information is used to improve teaching and learning." This was accepted by the commission on November 17, 2016 (wherein the university met the minimum requirements for accreditation).[https://www.msche.org/institution/0430/ Yeshiva University – Statement of Accreditation Status] Middle States Commission on Higher Education, Jan 14, 2019

In January 2016, the university disclosed plans to cede almost half of its $1 billion endowment to the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, as the medical college enters a separate joint venture with Montefiore Health System.{{cite web |url=http://forward.com/news/333786/yeshiva-u-gives-away-half-its-endowment-to-shed-albert-einstein-medical-sch/ |title=Yeshiva U. Gives Away Half Its Endowment To Shed Albert Einstein Medical School |website=The Forward |date=February 18, 2016 |last=Kestenbaum |first=Sam}}

In the 2020–2021 school year, Yeshiva University enrolled approximately 2,250 undergraduate students, and 2,700 graduate students.{{cite web |title=Yeshiva University Enrollment |website=New York State Education Department |url=https://data.nysed.gov/highered-enrollment.php?instid=800000046923 |access-date=2022-09-19}} It is also home to affiliated high schools—Yeshiva University High School for Boys and Yeshiva University High School for Girls—and the Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary (RIETS). It conferred 1,822 degrees in 2007 and offers community service projects serving New York, Jewish communities, the United States and Canada.This is Yeshiva University: 2007–2008 As of 2015, the university had run an operating deficit for seven consecutive years. In 2014, it lost $84 million, and in 2013, it suffered a loss of $64 million.[http://forward.com/news/breaking-news/307235/moshael-straus-elected-yeshiva-u-board-chief/ Moshael Straus Elected Yeshiva U. Board Chief] The Jewish Daily Forward, 30 April 2015

• Bernard Revel 1915–1940{{cite news |title=Dr. Bernard Revel, Head of Yeshiva, 55 — President of Hebrew College Here for the Last 25 Years Succumbs in Hospital — Son of a Russian Rabbi — Was Founder of Talmudical Academy and an Associate Editor of Encyclopedia |url=http://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1940/12/02/113123634.html?pageNumber=23 |access-date=18 November 2016 |newspaper=New York Times |date=December 2, 1940 |page=23}}
• Samuel Belkin, 1943–1975{{cite news |title=Elected as President Of Yeshiva at Age of 32 |url=http://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1943/06/29/88548509.html?pageNumber=17 |access-date=18 November 2016 |newspaper=The New York Times |date=June 29, 1943 |page=17}}{{cite news |last1=Spiegel |first1=Irving |title=Belkin, Citing Illness, Resigns as Yeshiva President |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1975/09/09/archives/belkin-citing-illness-resigns-as-yeshiva-president.html |access-date=18 November 2016 |newspaper=The New York Times |date=September 9, 1975 |page=29}}
• Norman Lamm, 1976–2003{{cite news |last1=Spiegel |first1=Irving |title=New Head of Yeshiva U. Norman Lamm |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1976/08/09/archives/new-head-of-yeshiva-u-norman-lamm.html |access-date=18 November 2016 |newspaper=The New York Times |date=August 9, 1976 |page=18}}{{cite news |last1=Medina |first1=Jennifer |title=Wanted: University President/Religious Leader |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2002/08/28/nyregion/wanted-university-president-religious-leader.html |access-date=18 November 2016 |newspaper=The New York Times |date=August 28, 2002}}
• Richard M. Joel, 2003–2017{{cite web |last1=Bronfman |first1=Edgar M. |last2=Schusterman |first2=Lynn |last3=Steinhardt |first3=Michael |last4=Moss |first4=Neil M. |date=December 5, 2002 |publisher=Hillel |url=http://www.hillel.org/about/news-views/news-views---blog/news-and-views/2002/12/05/richard-joel-named-yeshiva-university-president |title=Richard Joel Named Yeshiva University President |access-date=18 November 2016 |archive-date=July 26, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140726114833/http://www.hillel.org/about/news-views/news-views---blog/news-and-views/2002/12/05/richard-joel-named-yeshiva-university-president |url-status=dead }}
• Ari Berman, 2017–present{{cite news |last1=Berger |first1=Joseph |title=Yeshiva University Names Ari Berman President |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/18/nyregion/yeshiva-university-names-ari-berman-president.html |access-date=18 November 2016 |newspaper=The New York Times |date=November 18, 2016 |page=A28}}

The university's academic programs are organized into the following schools:{{cite web |url=https://www.yu.edu/about |access-date=22 November 2024 |title=About }}

• Yeshiva College for Men
• Stern College for Women
• Sy Syms School of Business

; Graduate and professional schools

• Katz School of Science and Health
• Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law
• Wurzweiler School of Social Work
• Azrieli Graduate School of Jewish Education and Administration
• Bernard Revel Graduate School of Jewish Studies
• Ferkauf Graduate School of Psychology

; Affiliates

• Albert Einstein College of Medicine
• Yeshiva University High School for Boys
• Samuel H. Wang Yeshiva University High School for Girls
• Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary
• Philip and Sarah Belz School of Jewish Music

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The U.S. News & World Report's 2025 "America's Best Colleges" ranked Yeshiva University 98th (tie) in National University.{{cite web |title=Yeshiva University – Best College – US News |url=https://www.usnews.com/best-colleges/yeshiva-university-2903 |access-date=November 18, 2023 |website=U.S. News & World Report}}

In 2023, Forbes ranked Yeshiva University as: No. 226 in "Top colleges 2023", No. 118 in Private Colleges, No. 143 in Research Universities, and No. 82 in the Northeast.{{cite web |url=https://www.forbes.com/colleges/yeshiva-university/ |title=Yeshiva University |website=Forbes}} Nationally, Yeshiva was ranked 138th by the Times Higher Education World University Rankings,{{cite magazine |url=https://www.timeshighereducation.com/world-university-rankings/yeshiva-university |title=World University Rankings |year=2023 |magazine=Times Higher Education Supplement |access-date=August 15, 2023}} and internationally it is ranked in the 900s by the Shanghai Jiao Tong University's Academic Ranking of World Universities{{cite web |title=Academic Ranking of World Universities – 2023 |url=http://www.shanghairanking.com/institution/yeshiva-university |work=ARWU |publisher=ShanghaiRanking Consultancy. |access-date=August 15, 2023}} and 369th in the world by the QS World University Rankings.{{cite web |url=https://www.topuniversities.com/universities/yeshiva-university |title=QS World University Rankings 2024 Results |work=TopUniversities |publisher=QS Quacquarelli Symonds Limited |access-date=August 15, 2023}}

The university's main campus, Wilf Campus, is located in the Washington Heights neighborhood of upper Manhattan. Yeshiva University's main office is located within the Wilf Campus, at 500 185th St.{{cite web |url=http://www.yu.edu/images/campusmap.pdf |title=Yeshiva University Campus Map |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090205143121/http://www.yu.edu/images/campusmap.pdf |archive-date=February 5, 2009 |df=mdy-all}} A 1928 plan to build a spacious Moorish Revival campus around several gardens and courtyards was canceled by the Great Depression of 1929 after only one building had been erected. Building continued after the Depression in modern style and by the acquisition of existing neighborhood buildings.{{Cite journal |title=Building Bust — The Unbuilt Synagogues of the Great Depression |url=https://www.tabletmag.com/jewish-arts-and-culture/13951/building-bust |journal=Tablet Magazine |date=August 20, 2009}}

Since it was founded in 1886, Yeshiva University has expanded to comprise some twenty colleges, schools, affiliates, centers, and institutions, with several affiliated hospitals and healthcare institutions. It has campuses and facilities in Manhattan (Washington Heights, Murray Hill, Greenwich Village), the Bronx, Queens, and Israel.

The Yeshiva University Museum is a teaching museum and the cultural arm of Yeshiva University. Founded in 1973, Yeshiva University Museum is AAMG accredited and aims to provide a window into Jewish culture around the world and throughout history through multi-disciplinary exhibitions and publications.

The university's building in Jerusalem, in the Bayit VeGan neighborhood, contains a branch of the rabbinical seminary and an office coordinating the S. Daniel Abraham Israel Program.{{Cite web |url=http://www.yu.edu/jip/index.aspx |title=S. Daniel Abraham Israel Program Home Page |access-date=September 24, 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100531063922/http://www.yu.edu/jip/index.aspx |archive-date=May 31, 2010 |url-status=dead |df=mdy-all}} Under the latter, first year students studying in selected Israeli Yeshivot are considered YU undergraduates.

File:Zysman yeshiva college.jpg|David H. Zysman Hall, on Yeshiva's Wilf Campus, is home to the former main beit midrash (Torah study hall)

File:Stern College for Women - Yeshiva University (51878226726).jpg|245 Lexington Avenue is the campus hub for the Stern College for Women

File:Zysman Hall jeh.jpg|David H. Zysman Hall, on the Wilf Campus

File:Yeshiva University Gottesman Library.jpg|Gottesman Library

File:Yeshiva University Belter Hall.jpg|Belter Hall

File:Yeshiva University Schottenstein Center.jpg|Schottenstein Center

The undergraduate university newspaper is The Commentator, and the newspaper for Stern College is The Observer. Law students at Cardozo also edit and publish five law journals. There are numerous other publications on a wide range of topics, both secular and religious, produced by the various councils and academic clubs, along with many official university publications and the university press. The call letters of the student radio station are WYUR, and it is currently an Internet-only station.{{cite web |url=http://www.wyur.net/ |title=WYUR – Yeshiva University Student Radio |website=www.wyur.net |access-date=January 12, 2010 |archive-date=October 30, 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101030082226/http://wyur.net/ |url-status=dead }}

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Yeshiva University has been involved in legal proceedings since April 2021 after it blocked official recognition of a Pride Alliance club for undergraduate LGBTQ+ students and their allies.{{cite news |url=https://yucommentator.org/2021/04/yu-and-administrators-sued-for-lgbtq-discrimination-by-yu-pride-alliance-students-and-alumni/ |title=YU and Administrators Sued for LGBTQ Discrimination by YU Pride Alliance, Students and Alumni |first=Sruli |last=Fruchter |date=April 27, 2021 |newspaper=The Commentator}}{{cite web |url=https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/supreme-court/supreme-court-says-orthodox-jewish-university-must-recognize-lgbtq-gro-rcna45272 |title=Supreme Court rejects Orthodox Jewish university's emergency request to deny official recognition to LGBTQ student group |first=Lawrence |last=Hurley |date=September 14, 2022 |website=NBC News}}

Controversy over LGBTQ-supportive undergraduate groups has been ongoing since at least 2009, when students created a "Tolerance Club." Its purpose was to promote acceptance of diversity of people within the Yeshiva University community. A founding member said that the group had "determined that the school’s lack of diversity has fostered significant insensitivity to those outside of the mainstream Y.U. culture" and aimed to address that issue.{{cite news |url=http://newvoices.org/2009/05/05/0073-2/ |title=Didn't Think Tolerance Could Be Controversial? Welcome To Yeshiva University |last=Botwinick |first=Simeon |date=May 5, 2009 |work=New Voices |publisher=Jewish Student Press Service |access-date=September 26, 2013}} The group's members included undergraduates at both the men's and women's campuses. Although not organized to address LGBTQ issues specifically, the group's promotion of tolerance for sexual and gender diversity generated controversy on the Yeshiva University campus; the student newspaper reported that the administration quashed a panel discussion because they objected to one of the speakers, a gay Orthodox rabbi. This controversy came to a head when the Tolerance Club sponsored a panel discussion entitled "Being Gay in the Orthodox World" in December, 2009. Several hundred people attended this panel discussion. Numerous Jewish news sources covered the panel and the conflict that enveloped the Yeshiva campus in its wake, and the Tolerance Club disbanded in May 2010.

A decade later, in 2021, undergraduate students sued the university for refusing to recognize a new LGBTQ+ student group, YU Pride Alliance.{{cite news |last=de Vogue |first=Ariane |title=Yeshiva University asks Supreme Court to let it block LGBTQ student club |date=August 29, 2022 |publisher=CNN |url=https://www.cnn.com/2022/08/29/politics/yeshiva-university-supreme-court-lgbtq-pride-alliance/index.html |access-date=August 31, 2022}} The university has retained the pro-religious practice law firm Becket Law as its counsel. A New York court ruled in June 2022 that the university must recognize the undergraduate Pride Alliance. The university appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court in August 2022, and a temporary stay was issued by Justice Sotomayor. In a 5–4 decision the full court vacated the stay without prejudice, ruling the NY appeals process was incomplete and thus SCOTUS relief premature.{{cite news |title=As Yeshiva University fights to block LGBTQ group, not all its grad schools are on board |last=Kovac |first=Adam |date=August 30, 2022 |work=The Forward |url=https://forward.com/news/516114/as-yu-fights-to-block-lgbtq-group-not-all-its-grad-schools-are-on-board/ |access-date=August 31, 2022}}{{cite news |title=U.S. Supreme Court requires Yeshiva University to allow LGBT student club |last=Chung |first=Andrew |date=August 30, 2022 |work=Reuters |url=https://www.reuters.com/legal/us-supreme-court-requires-yeshiva-university-allow-lgbt-student-club-2022-09-14/}} In response, the university put all student clubs on hold in September 2022, pending resolution of their ongoing legal challenges.{{cite web |url=https://www.npr.org/2022/09/17/1123638157/supreme-court-yeshiva-university-lgbtq-club |title=Yeshiva University cancels all clubs after it was ordered to allow an LGBTQ group |first=Joe |last=Hernandez |date=September 17, 2022 |accessdate=September 17, 2022 |work=NPR}} This lasted for a matter of weeks until an agreement was reached between the plaintiff and defense allowing other clubs to continue operating.{{Cite web |last=Stack |first=Liam |date=2022-09-26 |title=Amid Court Fight, L.G.B.T.Q. Club Proposes a Compromise to Yeshiva |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/21/nyregion/yeshiva-university-lgbtq-club.html}}

YU-affiliated Cardozo School of Law and the Ferkauf Graduate School of Psychology have publicly supported their own students and voiced their disapproval of the university's position and legal response. At Cardozo School of Law, there has long been an officially recognized LGBTQ+ student group, and the Graduate School of Psychology also publicly supports the LGBTQ members of their communities.

The university announced on October 24, 2022 that they approved "Kol Yisrael Areivim", a new LGBTQ student group. According to the university, this new group will be the "approved traditional Orthodox alternative to its current LGBTQ student group, the YU Pride Alliance".{{Cite web |last=Lavietes |first=Matt |date=October 24, 2022 |title=Yeshiva University launches 'traditional' alternative to LGBTQ student group |url=https://www.nbcnews.com/nbc-out/out-news/yeshiva-university-launches-traditional-alternative-lgbtq-student-grou-rcna53761 |access-date=2022-10-31 |website=NBC News |language=en}} There is still a dispute with the Pride Alliance who claimed the university's action as a stunt and distraction.{{cite web |title=YU Pride Alliance Statement Regarding Kol Yisrael Areivim |url=https://www.yupridealliance.org/lawsuit-status/yu-pride-alliance-statement-regarding-kol-yisrael-areivim}} Administrators later described Kol Yisrael Areivim as "a framework within which we hope to eventually form a club".{{cite web |title=Yeshiva University's 'Newly Founded' LGBTQ Club Does Not Currently Exist; University has 'Framework' For Club |date=November 2022 |url=https://yucommentator.org/2022/11/yeshiva-universitys-newly-founded-lgbtq-club-does-not-currently-exist-university-has-framework-for-club/}} Kol Yisrael Areivim is not included on official club lists, and it does not have any student members. On April 10, 2023, student journalist reported that Kol Yisrael Areivim was still yet to hold a single event.{{cite web |title=Faculty-Organized Town Hall Discusses LGBTQ Issues |date=April 11, 2023 |url=https://yucommentator.org/2023/04/faculty-organized-town-hall-discusses-lgbtq-issues/}}

On March 19, 2025, Yeshiva University announced that it would recognize the LGBT student club, bringing an end to the lawsuit. The club renamed itself to "Hareni".{{cite web |title=Yeshiva University Recognizes L.G.B.T.Q. Club After Lengthy Battle |date=March 20, 2025 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/20/nyregion/yeshiva-university-lgbtq-club.html}}

Student groups include the Yeshiva University Dramatics Society (YCDS), which puts on a performance each semester. A student-run group known as the Heights Initiative sponsors several outreach programs that work with the schools and organizations of the Washington Heights community. Student Government is run through YSU, YCSA, SOY-JSC, and SYMS. Additionally, these groups run community events like the annual Hanukkah Concert and a carnival celebrating Israeli Independence Day.

The Yeshiva University Medical Ethics Society (MES) is an undergraduate student-run organization of Yeshiva University which was founded by students in the fall of 2005 with the help of the Center for the Jewish Future toward the goal of promoting education and awareness of Jewish medical ethics in the university itself and the community at large. In the first several years, the group hosted a program of on-campus lectures in the field of medical ethics and Halakha (Jewish law). They also host genetic testing events to help combat the high incidence of various genetic diseases in the Jewish community.{{citation needed|date=September 2022}}

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Yeshiva University includes a number of NCAA Division III-level sports teams. The teams, nicknamed "The Maccabees",{{cite web |url=http://www.yu.edu/athletics/ |title=Yeshiva Maccabees homepage |publisher=Yeshiva Maccabees |access-date=August 27, 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090106061846/http://www.yu.edu./athletics |archive-date=January 6, 2009 |url-status=dead |df=mdy-all}} include: men's baseball, basketball, golf, volleyball, wrestling, women's basketball, cross country, fencing, soccer, tennis, and volleyball.

Because of Yeshiva's dual curriculum, most of the sports teams practice at night, sometimes even as late as 11:00 pm. A few of the sports teams practice or work out before classes begin at 9:00 am; for example, the men's basketball team routinely practices at 6:00 am.{{cite web |url=https://www.espn.com/mens-college-basketball/story/_/id/32542951/the-longest-winning-streak-men-college-basketball-belongs-yeshiva-university |title=The longest winning streak in men's college basketball belongs to ... Yeshiva University |first=Gary |last=Belsky |website=ESPN.com |date=November 6, 2021 |access-date=November 7, 2021}}

Teams have participated in weekend tournaments outside of New York City, with athletes staying with local families in the area. This took place in Boston with the basketball and fencing teams, and in Hollywood, Florida with the baseball team in 2008. Some international students have participated in NCAA sports, with as many as nine different nationalities representing the school on the sports field.{{cite web |url=http://spider.mc.yu.edu/news/articles/article.cfm?id=101718 |title=Players From Nine Countries Find Common Goal in Men's Soccer Team |date=November 11, 2008 |work=Yeshiva University News |publisher=Yeshiva University |access-date=August 27, 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110720125114/http://spider.mc.yu.edu/news/articles/article.cfm?id=101718 |archive-date=July 20, 2011 |url-status=dead |df=mdy-all}}

Two members of the Yeshiva Maccabees Baseball team were drafted out of college by professional teams of the Israeli Baseball League. Pitcher Aryeh Rosenbaum celebrated a championship with his team in the IBL's first year.{{cite web |url=http://www.skylineconference.org/News/bball/2007/6/12/israel_baseball_league.asp?path=bball |title=Two former Yeshiva University Baseball players to compete in new Israeli Baseball League |author=Mike Spinner |date=December 6, 2007 |work=Yeshiva Sports Information |publisher=Skyline Conference |access-date=August 27, 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170827215255/http://www.skylineconference.org/News/bball/2007/6/12/israel_baseball_league.asp?path=bball |archive-date=August 27, 2017 |url-status=dead |df=mdy-all}} From 2023 to 2025, the Maccabees went on a 100 game losing streak spanning three years. On April 8th, 2025, Yeshiva broke their streak with a 9–5 victory over Lehman College in the second game of a split doubleheader.{{Cite web |title=Lehman (1-14) -vs- Yeshiva (1-19) |url=https://yumacs.com/sports/baseball/stats/2025/lehman-college/boxscore/6037 |url-status=live |access-date=8 April 2025}}

Yeshiva's Men's Basketball team is an annual playoff contender. The most successful eras for Yeshiva basketball in recent history have been at the start and end of the 1990s, as well as the dawn of the 2020s. Banners hang in the Max Stern Athletic Center commemorating seasons from both eras. The 2007–08 season had particular note as Yeshiva was home to the Skyline Conference's Rookie of the Year. In 2018, the team won the Skyline Conference title in a game against SUNY Purchase, earning its first-ever NCAA berth and considerable media coverage.Rojas, R. (1 March 2018){{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/01/nyregion/yeshiva-university-ncaa-basketball-tournament.html |title=After Fasting and Before the Sabbath, Yeshiva Debuts in N.C.A.A. Tournament |newspaper=New York Times |date=March 2018 |access-date=March 5, 2018 |last1=Rojas |first1=Rick}} The current head coach of the team is Elliot Steinmetz, who has been with the team since 2014. Steinmetz succeeded Jonathan Halpert, the longest ever tenured NCAA men's basketball coach in New York City at 42 years.{{Cite news |last=Schonbrun |first=Zach |date=February 22, 2014 |title=At Yeshiva, Outpouring of Support for Departing Coach |work=The New York Times |pages=D7}} Steinmetz, a practicing lawyer, has been especially successful at attracting high caliber athletes, recognizing that Yeshiva's status in the Orthodox Jewish world means its athletics programs have unique access to a global talent pool from which to recruit players.{{Cite web |date=2021-11-05 |title=The most unlikely college hoops powerhouse, centuries in the making |url=https://www.espn.com/mens-college-basketball/story/_/id/32542951/the-longest-winning-streak-men-college-basketball-belongs-yeshiva-university |access-date=2025-02-20 |website=ESPN.com |language=en}}

In the 2019–20 season, the men's basketball team's only loss was in the season opener, with the Maccabees going on to win the Skyline Conference championship. This was the second time in three years that the Maccabees made the NCAA Division III Tournament. They won the first two rounds, pushing them into the Sweet Sixteen (3rd round) for the first time in school history. Before they played in the third round, the NCAA tournament was canceled due to COVID-19. After a 7–0 season in 2020–21 also abbreviated by COVID-19, the Maccabees entered the 2021–22 season on a 36-game winning streak, the longest current streak in NCAA men's basketball in any division, and were ranked #2 in the preseason by the Division III basketball website D3hoops.com. During this streak, the team was featured by media outlets as diverse as ESPN, CNN, the New York Daily News, the Los Angeles Times, and The Wall Street Journal. After previous #1 Randolph–Macon lost in overtime, the Maccabees, with their winning streak having reached 44 games, inherited the #1 ranking in the D3hoops.com poll released on November 29, 2021, marking the first time any Yeshiva team had topped any national poll.{{cite press release |url=https://yumacs.com/news/2021/11/29/mens-basketball-now-ranked-no-1-in-d3hoops-com-top-25-poll.aspx |title=Men's Basketball Now Ranked No. 1 in D3hoops.com Top 25 Poll |publisher=Yeshiva Maccabees |date=November 29, 2021 |access-date=November 30, 2021}} The Maccabees received recognition from the ESPN and NBA Twitter accounts for their 50th straight win, the longest winning streak in NCAA Men's Division III Basketball.{{Cite tweet |title=FIFTY straight games for Yeshiva men's basketball |author=ESPN |user=espn |number=1473756895085309971 |date=2021-12-22 |access-date=2021-12-28 |language=en}}{{Cite tweet |title=Congrats to Yeshiva University men's basketball team for 50 consecutive wins |author=NBA |user=NBA |number=1475328600043921410 |date=2021-12-26 |access-date=2021-12-28 |language=en}}

As of December 29, 2021, the men's basketball team held the then-longest active winning streak in men's college basketball with 50 consecutive wins.{{Cite web |last=Sales |first=Ben |date=December 26, 2021 |title=Incredulous Yeshiva U. fans watch their basketball team continue a 50-win streak |url=https://www.timesofisrael.com/incredulous-yeshiva-u-fans-watch-their-basketball-team-continue-a-50-win-streak/ |access-date=2021-12-28 |website=www.timesofisrael.com |language=en-US}} On December 30, 2021, the men's basketball team lost their winning streak.{{Cite web |url=https://www.timesofisrael.com/yeshiva-us-basketball-team-loses-at-home-snapping-50-game-win-streak/ |title=Yeshiva U's basketball team loses at home, snapping 50-game win streak |date=2021-12-31 |website=The Times of Israel |last=Philissa Cramer}}

One of the most successful teams in Yeshiva University sports history is the fencing team, known as the "Taubermen", named after the coach of the team, Professor Arthur Tauber, who served as the head coach of the team from 1949 through 1985. Olympic gold medalist Henry Wittenberg was at one time the coach of the wrestling team.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/10/sports/10wittenberg.html?ref=obituaries |title=Henry Wittenberg, Champion Wrestler, Dies at 91 |newspaper=The New York Times |date=March 10, 2010 |access-date=March 10, 2010 |first=Richard |last=Goldstein}}

In 2014, the Men's Tennis team won the Skyline Conference championship, becoming the first team in school history to advance to the NCAA tournament in any sport. In 2015,{{Cite web |url=http://www.yumacs.com/news/2015/4/26/MTEN_0426154037.aspx?path=mten |title=Men's Tennis Repeats as Skyline Conference Champions, Beats Farmingdale State 5-4 |website=Yeshiva University |date=April 26, 2015 |access-date=2016-06-21}} the Men's Tennis team repeated as Skyline Conference champions and went back to the NCAA National Tournament, advancing to the second round.{{Cite web |url=http://www.yumacs.com/news/2015/5/7/MSOC_0507151328.aspx?path=mten |title=Men's Tennis Beats Colby-Sawyer in First Round of NCAA Tournament for First NCAA Tournament Win in Yeshiva Athletics History |website=Yeshiva University |date=May 7, 2015 |access-date=2016-06-21}} They lost to the defending National Champions Amherst{{Cite web |url=http://www.yumacs.com/news/2015/5/8/MTEN_0508152313.aspx?path=mten |title=Men's Tennis History Making Season Ends with 5-0 Loss to Amherst in NCAA Tournament Second Round |website=Yeshiva University |date=May 8, 2015 |access-date=2016-06-21}} College. In 2016, the Men's Tennis team won the Skyline Conference a third year in a row{{Cite web |url=http://www.yumacs.com/news/2016/5/8/three-peat-mens-tennis-defeats-farmingdale-st-to-capture-third-straight-skyline-championship.aspx?path=mten |title=Three-peat! Men's Tennis Defeats Farmingdale State to Capture Third Straight Skyline Title |website=Yeshiva University |date=May 8, 2016 |access-date=2016-06-21}} and advancing to the NCAA D3 National Tennis Tournament again. The Men's Tennis team repeated as Skyline Conference champions in 2017 and 2018 to extend this streak of success to five consecutive NCAA National Tournament appearances.

Since 2010, the Men's Cross Country and Men's Volleyball teams have won multiple championships.{{cite web |url=http://www.hvmac.net/sports/mxc/championships |title=Championships – Hudson Valley Intercollegiate Athletic Conference |publisher=hvmac.net |access-date=June 11, 2014}}{{cite web |url=http://www.hvmac.net/sports/mvball/championships |title=Championships – Hudson Valley Intercollegiate Athletic Conference |publisher=hvmac.net |access-date=June 11, 2014}} Many of the Maccabees have gained attention nationwide, like Sam Cohen won an individual championship as well as Capital One Academic honors.{{cite web |url=http://yumacs.com/news/2013/5/30/MXC_0530131159.aspx |title=Yeshiva University Athletics – Cohen Named to Capital One Academic All-District 3 NCAA Division III Men's Track/Cross Country Team |date=May 30, 2013 |publisher=yumacs.com |access-date=June 11, 2014}} Other attention grabbers come from Women's Basketball and Women's Fencing.{{cite web |url=http://yumacs.com/news/2011/3/2/WFENCE_0302111248.aspx?path=wfence |title=Yeshiva University Athletics – Elizabeth Penn Earns Fencer of the Year Honors. Shaul and Goldson Earn 2nd Team at EWFC Championships |date=March 2, 2011 |publisher=yumacs.com |access-date=June 11, 2014}}{{cite web |url=http://yumacs.com/news/2013/4/8/WBB_0408134509.aspx |title=Yeshiva University Athletics – Yoshor Named to All Met Division III Women's College Basketball Second Team |date=April 8, 2013 |publisher=yumacs.com |access-date=June 11, 2014}}

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• Professor of Hebrew Literature & Philosophy at Harvard Shaye J. D. Cohen (B.A. 1970){{cite book |last1=Cohen |first1=Shaye J. D. |title=Why Aren't Jewish Women Circumcised?: Gender and Covenant in Judaism |year=2005 |publisher=University of California Press |isbn=978-0-520-24458-0 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=INQ0ngEACAAJ |language=en}}{{cite news |last1=Gewertz |first1=Ken |title=Identity politics in late antiquity |url=https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2001/11/identity-politics-in-late-antiquity/ |work=Harvard Gazette |date=1 November 2001}}{{cite encyclopedia |encyclopedia=Encyclopaedia Judaica |title=Cohen, Shaye J.D. |url=https://www.encyclopedia.com/religion/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/cohen-shaye-jd |publisher=Encyclopedia.com}}
• Former Vermont Governor Howard Dean (M.D. 1978)
• Judge Sandra J. Feuerstein, of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York (J.D. 1979)
• Mass murderer and terrorist Baruch Goldstein (B.A. 1977, M.D. 1981)
• Restaurateur and writer Eddie Huang (J.D. 2008)
• Rabbi and Director of Torah Umesorah Joseph Kaminetsky (B.A. 1932)
• Singer-songwriter Lucy Kaplansky
• Aaron Klein, author and chief strategist for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.{{Cite web |last=Traiman |first=Alex |date=2021-02-01 |title=Netanyahu names strategic adviser Aaron Klein as campaign chief |url=https://www.jns.org/netanyahu-names-strategic-adviser-aaron-klein-as-campaign-chief/ |access-date=2021-04-21 |website=JNS.org |language=en-US}}
• Diplomat Daniel C. Kurtzer (B.A. 1971)
• Rabbi and 3rd president of Yeshiva University Norman Lamm (B.A. 1949, Rabbinic Ordination 1951, PhD. 1966)
• New York Congresswoman Grace Meng (J.D.)
• Republican political strategist Nicolas Muzin
• Law professor A. Leo Levin at the University of Pennsylvania (B.A. 1939)
• Author Chaim Potok (B.A. 1950)
• Baseball executive David Samson (J.D. 1992)
• Rabbi and author Harold M. Schulweis (B.A. 1945)
• Radio network president and host Nachum Segal (B.A. 1984)
• Former Speaker of the New York State Assembly Sheldon Silver (B.A. 1978)
• National Public Radio host Laura Sydell (J.D.)
• Professional basketball player Ryan Turell (2022)
• President of the United Federation of Teachers Randi Weingarten (J.D. 1983)
• Triple Crown-winning racehorse owner Ahmed Zayat (B.A. 1983)

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• Adrienne Asch, bioethics scholar
• Abraham Cahan, publisher of the socialist Jewish Daily Forward newspaper (English Department of Etz Chaim Yeshiva)
• Paul A. M. Dirac, Nobel Prize winner in Physics
• Paul Greengard, Nobel Prize winner in Medicine
• Joe Lieberman, US Senator
• Julius B. Maller, educator and sociologist
• Oliver Sacks, British neurologist, naturalist, historian of science, and writer
• Red Sarachek, basketball coach
• Joseph B. Soloveitchik, rabbi
• Telford Taylor, lawyer
• Bob Tufts, Major League Baseball pitcher, taught sports marketing
• Henry Wittenberg, Olympic champion in freestyle wrestling, taught wrestling
• Herman Wouk, author
• James Yates, judge

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