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New York, N.Y.– More than 100 former students returned to their alma mater for the sixth annual Lander College for Men (LCM) Alumni Shabbaton.

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The dancing was spirited, and “the joy and exuberance in the room was simply electric,” said R’ Bamberger. “All of the Torah and friendship seamlessly merged into one as the Rebbeim and talmidim sang and danced together.” The Carlos and Gabby’s dinner reminded us of the miracle of oil, of course.

How old are you? 32

Where do you live? Woodmere, New York

Where do you work? Meridian Capital, located in Battery Park, which is the leading mortgage brokerage in the country.   I’ve been at Meridian for 10 years.

“I was always fascinated by the brain,” begins Daniel Bentley, LCM ’14. “Every little new discovery leads to many more question.”

Now that orientation week is over and students are settling into classes at Lander College for Men, we asked six new students to share a bit about their backgrounds, career plans, and decisions to choose Touro. Take a few seconds to meet Abie, Eli, Akiva, Jordan, Binyamin, and Baruch, and you'll see why they represent everything that's uniquely LCM.

For Five-Towns native Aharon Rubel, attending Lander College for Men was “a given” after attending Shaalvim in Israel. Although he has yet to declare a major, the DRS alumnus said he was “excited about the awesome learning environment, with great rebbeim—you can’t really get this combination anywhere else.” 

Graduates from the Class of 2015 share words of advice, and a warm welcome, to the new students at Lander College for Men.

As devout as he is smart, David Manheim knew he was in the right place when he arrived from Israel to study at The Lander College for Men.  A longtime yeshiva student, he was grateful for the school’s dual mission of challenging academics coupled with a commitment to Torah learning. “There was a tremendously positive environment among the students and a flexibility among the faculty,” says Manheim, who graduated in 2008 with a Mathematics degree. 

For college students, summer internships are valued opportunities that provide rich learning experience and hands-on training in their chosen professions. At LCM, students actively pursue, and attain, internships in fields that give them a brief taste of their future careers. This summer, Touro visited six students at their respective internship sites to learn more about their responsibilities on the job, their work environments, and what advice they’d give to other students pursuing internships. 

At LCM, Manheim studied abstract mathematics and financial modeling, earning his B.S. in Mathematics.