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Dr. Michelle Levine, associate professor of Bible at Stern College for Women, recently published an article, titled, “ Havdalah— Emulating God in Mind and Deed: Israel’s Divine Mission and the Quest for Salvation,” in Havdalah, a publication by Mesorah Matrix, New Paradigm Matrix Publishing (eds ...

Dr. Matthew J. Cuellar, assistant professor of social work at Yeshiva University’s Wurzweiler School of Social Work, has been awarded a three-year $1 million grant from the National Institute of Justice’s Comprehensive School Safety Initiative to conduct research on effective school safety systems…

Faculty at Yeshiva University’s Wurzweiler School of Social Work recently received a four-year $1.9 million training grant from the United States Department of Health and Human Services --- Human Resources Service Administration (HRSA). The grant, which continues a previous three-year $1.4 million…

Dr. S. Abraham Ravid, professor of finance at Sy Syms School of Business, was interviewed on Marketplace, a program produced by Minnesota Public Radio and aired on National Public Radio. He spoke about a new subscription movie ticket service, called MoviePass, that allows a person to see an ...

Gina Grimaldi, an adjunct instructor in Renaissance drama and composition since 2011 in the department of English at Stern College for Women, was recently named coordinator of the Beren Writing Center, where she will mentor the student tutors and supervise the Center’s daily operations. She was…

Faculty and alumni from the Bernard Revel Graduate School of Jewish Studies presented at the 17th World Congress of Jewish Studies held from August 6 to 10 at the Mount Scopus Campus of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel. Revel faculty who presented were Dr. Mordechai Z. Cohen, associate ...

Dr. Daniel Beliavsky, visiting associate professor and chair of the Fine Art and Music Department, has produced a documentary on composer David Del Tredici, who turned 80 in 2017. Del Tredici is known in American music history as a founder of what is called the “neoromantic movement” in American ...

Over the last decade Dr. David Glaser, professor of music, has grown increasingly interested in music of the Renaissance and early Baroque eras composed for small vocal ensembles, often with a handful of instruments. This has inspired him to compose a work for chorus, two percussionists and organ…

Dr. David Shatz, Ronald P. Stanton University Professor of Philosophy, Ethics, and Religious Thought and chair of the department of philosophy at Stern College for Women, has had a busy year as an editor, writer and presenter. In early December 2016, Shatz presented a paper titled “Virtue and the…

This summer, Dr. Joy Ladin, David and Ruth Gottesman Professor of English and director of the Beren Writing Center at Stern College for Women, completed The Soul of the Stranger: Reading God and Torah from a Transgender Perspective, forthcoming from Brandeis University Press in Fall 2018, and of…