Over 350 guests attended the 37th annual Sy Syms Awards Dinner last month at the Museum of Jewish Heritage in Battery Park.  

Guests from the entire Sy Syms community, including students, faculty, staff, alumni, board members and families heard remarks from Dean Noam Wasserman, Associate Dean Michael Strauss; Fleur Hassan-Nahoum, keynote speaker and former Deputy Mayor of Jerusalem; Mila Krugman, Hadaya Fried and Andrew Jacobson, Sy Syms co-presidents; Ahuva Abraham and Moshe Wolff, valedictorians; Professor Steve Mayer (Professor of the Year) and Rabbi Daniel Rapp (Adjunct Professor of the Year), in addition to other award presenters.  

This year’s dinner was especially unique for two reasons: First, the creation of the inaugural Sy Syms Guardian of Israel Award, given to three Syms students who returned to Israel to serve after October 7, as well as the keynote speaker, Fleur Hassan-Nahoum.  

Second, it was the first Syms Dinner where both undergraduate and graduate students were included in the Beta Gamma Sigma International Business Honors Society Ceremony, honoring the top 10% of business students in the nation. There were 27 inductees from /Sy Syms School of Business in total; 23 undergrads and 4 master‘s students.

The bulk of the evening was the bestowing of the student awards, which are listed below:  

Dean Harold Nierenberg Valedictorian Award

Ahuva Abraham and Moshe Wolff

Bernard Brown Salutatorian Award for Excellence in Business Studies  

Sarah Zaionz and Jacob (Koby) Rosinsky

Dr. Joseph Kerzner Award for Outstanding Achievement in Accounting

Hannah Poupko

Harry R. Mancher Award for Excellence in Accounting  

Eliana Scheiner

Henry Brout Award for Superior Scholarship in Accounting

Avraham Yaakov Gellman

Joseph Herbst Award for Excellence in Accounting

Jake Schochet

Dean's Award for Scholastic Achievement in Business Analytics  

Yonah Drazin and Andrew Katz

Dean's Award for Scholastic Achievement in Finance  

Miriam Edery, Nathaniel Simantov and Yishai Mandel

Dean's Award for Scholastic Achievement in Marketing

Ari Morgenstern and Liana Friedman

Dean's Award for Scholastic Achievement in Strategy & Entrepreneurship  

Andrew Jacobson and Eli Schloss

Professor Joel Hochman Memorial Award for Leadership and Service

Mila Krugman

President Emeritus Richard Joel Award for Presidential Leadership  

Mila Krugman

Andrew Jacobson

Hadaya Fried

Deans Award for Service & Character  

Jacob Steinberg

Gillian Herszage

Hannah Kotler

Adi Markovich

Moshe Nasser

Tova Hakakian

Sy Syms Guardian of Israel Award

Elan Roffe

Jonah Eisenberg

Kovi Pahmer

Fleur Hassan-Nahoum (Keynote Speaker)

Professor of the Year Award

Professor Steven Mayer

Adjunct Professor of the Year Award

Rabbi Daniel Rapp

The Sy Syms School of Business would like to thank its student council presidents Mila Krugman, Andrew Jacobson and Hadaya Fried, 's Office of Student Life and the Museum of Jewish Heritage for a beautiful evening honoring its graduating awardees.  

The full event album can be seen or at yu.edu/SySymsDinner2024Flickr