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Joy Ladin, David and Ruth Gottesman Professor of English and director of The Beren Writing Center at Stern College for Women, recently published her ninth book of poetry, The Future is Trying to Tell Us Something: New and Selected Poems (Sheep Meadow Press). Her memoir, Through the Door of Life,…

Dr. Linda M. Shires, David and Ruth Gottesman Professor of English, chair of the English department at Stern College for Women, and head of the humanities division, will give a plenary address at the 23rd international Thomas Hardy Society Biennial conference in Dorchester, England on July 17 ...

Dr. Miriam Hirsch, associate professor of education and co-chair of the department of education at Stern College for Women, published an article in the November 2017 issue of Journal of Jewish Education entitled, “Jewish Day School Wounds and What We Can Do About Them.” This article is based upon a…

Dr. David Pelcovitz, the Gwendolyn and Joseph Straus Chair in Jewish Education at Azrieli Graduate School of Jewish Education and Administration was a featured speaker at Chai Lifeline’s LH Financial Family Winter Retreat this January in Asbury Park, New Jersey. The annual event brings together the…

Dr. S. Abraham (Avri) Ravid, Sy Syms Professor of Finance at Sys Syms School of Business, is the program chair of the Midwest Finance Associations annual meeting, being held this year March 1 – 3 in San Antonio, Texas. The Midwest Finance Association is a major professional association with members…

Daniel Pollack, professor at the Wurzweiler School of Social Work, published two articles about difficult topics in the February issue of Policy & Practice, the journal of the American Public Human Services Association. In “ Legal Perspectives of ‘Sexual Addiction” Pollack looks at the legal ...

Dr. Jeffrey Gurock, Libby M. Klaperman Professor of Jewish History, will participate in “A Celebration of Jewish Books” at The Temple Emanu-El Streicker Center on Sunday, March 11, at 11 a.m. The event is organized by the Jewish Book Council, Moment magazine, PJ Library and the Jewish Women’s ...

Pearl Berger, retired dean of YU Libraries, who received the University’s Presidential Medallion in 2015, has recently stepped down from the editorial board of Judaica Librarianship. To honor her retirement from the board, Edith Lubetski, head librarian, Heidi Steinberg Library, Yeshiva University…

Rabbi Gideon Shloush, instructor in Jewish studies at Stern College for Women and president of the New York Board of Rabbis (NYBR), led an NYBR delegation to attend an anti-Semitism conference hosted by the Italian foreign ministry in Rome on January 29−30. The conference attendees included almost…