Yeshiva University Names Ari Berman President

Yeshiva University may not have the same high profile in New York City as Columbia and New York University, but it is the fountainhead of the Modern Orthodox Jewish movement, and enrolls about 7,000 students at colleges and highly regarded professional schools that include the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, the Albert Einstein College of Medicine and the Ferkauf Graduate School of Psychology.  On Wednesday, after a yearlong search, the university announced that its new president will be Rabbi Ari Berman, 46, a Queens-bred alumnus of the university’s high school, undergraduate college, Jewish studies graduate school and rabbinical college.