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On June 19, 2018, Shulamith Z. Berger, curator of special collections and Hebraica-Judaica at the Yeshiva University Libraries, and Marlene Schiffman, catalog librarian, delivered talks at the 53rd annual conference of the Association of Jewish Libraries at Temple Israel in Boston. The conference…

Melissa Celik, associate director of university events, and Gretchen Correa, data manager, in the Office of Events were instrumental in the successful transition Yeshiva University recently made from the R25 to 25Live event scheduling system, which has made booking both on-campus and off-campus ...

Dr. Jeffrey Gurock, the Libby M.Klaperman Professor of Jewish History, recently published “‘Getting Along’ in Parkchester: A New Era in Jewish–Irish Relations in New York City 1940–1970” in Religions, an international, open access peer-reviewed scholarly journal. It is part of a special issue ...

Daniel Pollack, professor at Wurzweiler School of Social Work, has published two new articles in Policy & Practice, the journal of the American Public Human Services Association. In “ Distant Memories, Fresh Wounds: Litigation Strategies for Sexual Abuse Lawsuits,” Pollack asked six attorneys…

Dr. Sharon Poczter, associate professor and chair of the strategy and entrepreneurship department at Sy Syms School of Business, has co-authored an article with Dr. Aldo Musacchio, associate professor of business at the Brandeis International Business School, and Dr. Sergio G. Lazzarini, professor…

Dr. Jeffrey Gurock, Libby M. Klaperman Professor of Jewish History, will publish a chapter about Jewish sports in New York Sports: Glamour and Grit in the Empire City, edited by Stephen H. Norwood, professor of history at the University of Oklahoma, which will be published in June 2018. The book is…

Rabbi Benjamin Blech, professor of Talmud, will publish a new book, Hope, Not Fear: Changing the Way We View Death, which explores the question of how to approach the end of one's life. The prompt for the book came from a diagnosis Rabbi Blech received that he had a fatal illness which gave him no…

Dr. David Berger, dean of the Bernard Revel Graduate School of Jewish Studies, presented at “Polemics and Prophethood in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam,” an international conference from May 14–16, 2018, sponsored by the Sigi Feigel Visiting Professorship for Jewish Studies and the Department of…

The faculty at Sy Syms School of Business has been busy this spring presenting their research on a variety of topics to their academic colleagues at notable education institutions. On April 25, professor of finance Dr. S. Abraham (Avri) Ravid presented “Star Turnover and the Value of Human Capital…