“The College Search: A Brief Guide to Jewish Life Outside YU” (Oct. 3, 2019) was comprehensive and offered important facts and details about a variety of educational options for readers; however, I would like to point out some corrections to the information provided about Touro College. Touro’s Lander Colleges, which primarily serve the Jewish community, are not coeducational. The Manhattan location, Lander College for Women – The Anna Ruth and Mark Hasten School, is obviously only for women; the Queens campus, Lander College for Men, is similarly for men only; Touro’s Brooklyn campus, the Lander College of Arts and Sciences offers separate divisions for men and women. The article also stated that Touro offers “kosher options” on campus. All food on every Touro campus, undergraduate, graduate and professional divisions across the U.S. and abroad, is glatt kosher.

It is worth noting that in addition to the Lander Colleges, Touro’s NY School of Career and Applied Studies (NYSCAS), is open to Orthodox Jews as well as a diverse group of students of every nationality and ethnicity. This campus is located in midtown Manhattan, offers coed classes and Judaic studies at an associate’s degree level (whereas at the Lander Colleges, Judaic Studies are offered at the bachelor’s degree level). The school calendar is coordinated with Sabbath and the Jewish holidays and exclusively kosher food is served in the cafeteria. Jewish. Students seeking a coed environment would find themselves in a very supportive atmosphere at NYSCAS.

Touro offers pathways to medical school and graduate programs in health sciences (physician assistant, physical, occupational, speech therapy) to qualified students while they are in high school or studying in Israel. These competitive programs are provided in conjunction with the Touro School of Health Sciences, Touro College of Osteopathic Medicine, Touro College of Pharmacy and New York Medical College, all members of the Touro College and University System.

Additionally, 95% of students at Touro’s Lander Colleges gain acceptance to graduate and professional schools of their choice in the fields of law, psychology, medicine and STEM.