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Dr. Michelle J. Levine, associate professor of Bible at Stern College for Women, has published two articles for the Mesorah Matrix Series, edited by David Birnbaum and Martin S. Cohen. In volume 9 of the series, Ehyeh asher Ehyeh [ “I Will Be That Which I Will Be”], Dr. Levine examines the far ...

Dr. Jonathan Feldman, professor of psychology at Ferkauf Graduate School of Psychology and associate professor of pediatrics at Albert Einstein College of Medicine, has co-authored two articles on asthma and panic. In “Psychological treatment of comorbid asthma and panic disorder in Latino adults…

Dr. Michelle J. Levine, associate professor of Bible at Stern College for Women, has begun her yearly adult lecture series in her community of Kew Gardens Hills, New York, on topics in the Bible. This is her 20th consecutive year teaching this series to women of all ages and diverse backgrounds ...

Dr. Joshua Waxman, assistant professor at Stern College for Women, presented a peer-reviewed short paper titled “A Graph Database of Scholastic Relationships in the Babylonian Talmud” at the 2019 Digital Humanities Conference held July 9-12, 2019, in Utrecht, the Netherlands. In his presentation,…

Daniel Pollack, professor at Wurzweiler School of Social Work, recently published two pieces. In “ Out of luck: Need a rural family law attorney?”, he and co-author Lori S. Kornblum examine data from Wisconsin about the problems people living in rural populations have in finding adequate legal ...

Dr. Karen Shawn, associate professor of Jewish education at Yeshiva University's Azrieli Graduate School of Jewish Education and Administration and editor of its publication PRISM: An Interdisciplinary Journal for Holocaust Educators, conducted two workshops recently at the Holocaust Museum Houston…

Dr. Josefa Steinhauer, associate professor of biology, recently published a study in Development, a publication of the U.S. National Library of Medicine and National Institutes of Health, with three YU alumni: Benjamin Statman ’15YC, Dani Edelman ’17YC and Jacob Borck ’18YC. Dr. Steinhauer explains…

Dr. Irit Felsen, adjunct professor at Ferkauf Graduate School of Psychology, will speak on September 2, 2019, at a special program for the second generation of children of Holocaust survivors as part of the current exhibition, “Auschwitz. Not Long Ago. Not Far Away.”, at the Museum of Jewish ...

Dr. Joy Ladin, David and Ruth Gottesman Professor of English and director of the writing center at the Israel Henry Beren Campus, has had a busy year of publishing and presenting. New Course “The Truth About Lies: Unreliable Narratives in Literature and Law,” at the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of…

Daniel Pollack, professor at Wurzweiler School of Social Work, examines the issues underlying the case of Michelle Carter texting Conrad Roy to kill himself, which he eventually did, in “ Text Taunting to Suicide: The Role of Child Protective Services.” While he feels the First Amendment issues are…