Though public school students constitute a very small minority of the total student body at Stern College for Women (SCW), they are a group which is growing slowly but surely.
On a typical weekday, the Eisenberg Beit Midrash in 245 Lexington Avenue is abuzz with the discourses of the women enrolled in YU's Graduate Program for Advanced Talmudic Studies (GPATS).
Given students' tightly budgeted schedules, most undergraduates opt to devote time to one primary Jewish extracurricular activity, choosing to participate in either an on-campus effort, or in an initiative outside of the university community.
Thousands of Jewish communal leaders from all around the world came together to learn from one another, network, and formulate new understandings about our future as a people.