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While most of us were still asleep, Steven “Lippy” Treitel’s day was already in full swing. As a commuter student in the evening program at Touro’s Lander College for (LCM), Steven would leave his home in Monsey, NY at 5:45am to make a 7am minyan at Meridian Capital Group, where he worked. Twice a week, he would then make the drive from Manhattan to Queens to take classes until 10:30pm, only to then make the hour-long drive back to Monsey.

Lander College for Men student Nathan Fordsham has seen a part of the underbelly of the New York State Criminal Court System that few of his peers even know exist.

Lander College for Men (LCM) graduate Dr. Baruch Berzon knows how important each second can be.

Jay is a land use and zoning attorney who runs his own law firm and lives with his wife and daughter in Cedarhurst, New York.

As a child, Yaacov Jacob spent his summers at his grandparent’s apartment in the Yemin Moshe neighborhood in Israel. Through a porthole on the first-floor, Jacob was able to see the vistas of Jerusalem’s Old City.

Bita Goldman, general counsel and corporate vice president of Quantum Networks, one of Amazon’s leading e-commerce retailers, knows what trait she likes in Touro graduates: tenacity.

Every day, for audit manager and Lander College for Men graduate Eli Sinnreich, is a day that he can make a Kiddush Hashem.

For college students, internships are valued opportunities that provide learning experience and hands-on training in chosen professions. This summer, dozens of LCM students took advantage of their free time to participate in major-related internships that gave them a taste of their future careers. Here are some of their stories. 

Lander College for Men/Beis Medrash L’Talmud offers an intensive learning program combined with a rigorous college education. While some alumni enter the fields of Jewish education or the rabbinate, many pursue careers in the professions, business and industry. These lectures, which draw upon a rich variety of classical Jewish sources and speak to the very mission of the school, explore Jewish attitudes towards academic study, the value of work, the appropriate balance between the study of Torah and the pursuit of a career, criteria for the choice of a career, and the opportunities to sanctify God’s name in the workplace. Links to video, audio and source sheets are below. 

Students at Lander College for Men (LCM) began their college career by learning how to balance fulfilling limudei kodesh classes with rigorous academics. Speakers during the orientation spoke both about the chiyuv of Talmud Torah and the need to plan for a successful career. Students said they chose LCM for the ability to pursue a college education in a warm yeshiva environment.