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Daniel Pollack, professor at the Wurzweiler School of Social Work, co-wrote an article in Youth Today with Bruce Young, an attorney who litigates sexual abuse claims for children and families, titled “A Tale of Two Juries on Foster Father Accused of Sex Abuse.” The article contrasts the acquittal…

Dr. S. Abraham Ravid, Sy Syms Professor of Finance and chair of the finance department at Sy Syms School of Business, was interviewed by NPR's Marketplace about the differences between Chapter 7 and Chapter 11 bankruptcies. Unlike the more commonly known Chapter 11, Chapter 7 bankruptcies do not ...

Daniel Pollack, professor at Wurzweiler School of Social Work, co-presented a continuing education course on Sunday, April 23, with Sandra Lax ’09W titled “Sexual Grooming and Sexual Addiction.” In many child sexual abuse cases, the abuse is preceded by sexual grooming, a preparatory process in ...

Dr. Moshe Krakowski, director of the master's program at the Azrieli Graduate School of Jewish Education and Administration, recently published an article in the 2017 issue of Contemporary Jewry, titled “Developing and Transmitting Religious Identity: Curriculum and Pedagogy in Modern Orthodox ...

Dr. Steven Fine, the Dean Pinkhos Churgin Professor of Jewish History, has just published “Digital Reconstruction Restores Original Brilliance to the Arch of Titus” in Biblical Archaeology Review, an account of the work that he and others have done on digitally restoring and coloring the menorah ...

Dr. Emil Prodan, professor of physics, has published his second book, A Computational Non-Commutative Geometry Program for Disordered Topological Insulators (Springer, 2017). It is part of the Springer Briefs in Mathematical Physics. An abstract for the books states the following: “This work ...

Rabbi Dr. J. David Bleich Rabbi J. David Bleich’s volumes on contemporary halakha [Jewish legal] problems demonstrate the ability of the Jewish mesorah [tradition] to respond to changed conditions and advances in knowledge. He is professor of Talmud at the Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary…

Dr. Ephraim Kanarfogel, E. Billi Ivry University Professor of Jewish History, Literature and Law, recently published three articles: “Rabbinic Conceptions of Matchmaking in Medieval Europe,” in Entangled Histories: Knowledge, Authority, and Jewish Culture in the Thirteenth Century (University of ...