New York, N.Y., June 1, 2015 – It’s surprising, given her myriad interests and hobbies, that Aliza Meissner includes chemistry on her list of enjoyable activities. After all, this is someone who has scaled the Rockies, spiked a volleyball with reckless abandon and dared the sharks while riding a surfboard off the California coast. And yet…

New York, N.Y. - Seven outstanding high school graduates from across the nation were selected to receive the prestigious Sarah Rivkah and Dr. Bernard Lander ZT”L Scholarship given jointly by Touro College and NCSY. The recipients are:  Emma O’Quin of Tacoma, Wash.; Caitlyn Franks of Baltimore, Md.; Jamie Epstein of Memphis, Tenn.; Mariah Barber of Eugene, Ore.; Nicki Feerst of Long Beach, N.Y., Sara Lederer of Bergenfield, N.J. and Natasha Zucker of Minneapolis, Minn. 

New York, N.Y – On the occasion of its 40th anniversary, Lander College for Women-The Anna Ruth and Mark Hasten School (LCW) recognized five individuals who have been instrumental to the continued success of the institution. The gala dinner, held at the new Lincoln Square Synagogue in Manhattan, also marked the inauguration of the Sarah Rivkah Lander Chesed Fund, which will provide financial assistance to students in need.  

Rivka Malka Swartz grew up listening to the stories her maternal grandmother would tell about surviving the “camp-ghetto” Theresienstadt and the Westerbork transit camp in the Netherlands.

To hear Raphaela Abramson talk, you would think spreadsheets are awe inspiring.

And in a 21^st century way, she’s right. According to Abramson the secrets to progressive policies, successful political campaigns and the essence of what makes America beautiful lies within them.

July 9, 2013, New York, N.Y. – Touro College undergraduate, Hanah Brasch, has been selected to be an intern in The Hague in September 2013, working for the United Nation's International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY).

Lander College for Women-The Anna Ruth and Mark Hasten School (LCW) will sponsor the opening Shabbat of the NCSY’s GIVE-USA, a travel camp focusing on acts of chesed, loving-kindness. The event, which takes place Friday, June 28 through Sunday, June 30, kicks off the four-and-half-week long camp.

New York, N.Y. – Gabrielle (Gitty) Philipson, an alumna of the Lander College for Women-The Anna Ruth and Mark Hasten School (LCW) from Monsey, N.Y., has been accepted to Harvard Law School.

New York, N.Y. – Six prospective students to the Lander College for Women-The Anna Ruth and Mark Hasten School (LCW) were awarded up to $48,000 in academic scholarships as the winners of the school’s first annual Torah Essay contest in Israel. Each of the three first-place contestants will receive $3,000 in scholarships annually for up to four years of enrollment at LCW; three second-place winners will receive $1,000 each in annual scholarships. Dr. Alan Kadish, president and CEO of the Touro College and University System, was in attendance and presented the students with the awards.

New York, N.Y. – Dr. Howard R. Feldman, a paleontologist and biology professor at Touro’s Lander College for Women – The Anna Ruth and Mark Hasten School (LCW) in Manhattan, recently presented two papers at the Geological Society of America annual meeting in Charlotte, North Carolina. Dr. Feldman’s research may help determine the timing of the breakup of Pangaea, which scientists believe to have been an ancient supercontinent made up of all the world’s continents.