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Rabbi Benjamin Blech, professor of Talmud, has just had his Haggadah (with commentaries) accepted for publication by Koren Publishers. Rabbi Blech has been working on this project for a decade. The only other Haggadahs published by Koren have been from Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik and from the ...
Robert Tufts, adjust professor in management, was featured as a “Must Read Story Of The Day” on Patients Rising, a website dedicated to patient advocacy in the health care industry. Tufts told his story of suffering from multiple myeloma while also having to battle the industry to get the care he…
Dr. Zafrira Lidovsky Cohen, a professor of Hebrew and director of Hebrew language and literature at Stern College for Women, recently published an essay in Women in Judaism: A Multidisciplinary Journal. Titled “The Non-Chosen Body: Poetics and Politics in Alona Kimhi’s Lily La Tigresse,” the essay…
Dr. Joshua Zimmerman, Eli and Diana Zborowski Professorial Chair in Holocaust Studies and East European Jewish History, gave a lecture on his book, Wounds of History: The Polish Underground and the Jews during World War II, on November 17, 2016, at the Annual 1939 Society Lecture in Holocaust ...
Dr. Steven Fine, Dean Pinkhos Churgin Professor of Jewish History and director of the Center for Israel Studies, has had his 1997 book, This Holy Place: On the Sanctity of the Synagogue During the Greco-Roman Period, republished by Wipf and Stock Publishers, located in Oregon. The reprint includes…
Dr. Linda M. Shires, David and Ruth Gottesman Professor of English and chair of the English department at Stern College for Women, spoke on November 3, 2016, at the North American Victorian Studies Association annual conference in Phoenix, Arizona, on “Nineteenth-Century Reforms in Fine Arts ...
Dr. Lea Ferreira dos Santos, professor of physics at Stern College for Women, has been recognized by the American Physical Society (APS) as an Outstanding Referees for her work as an anonymous peer reviewer on behalf of the Physical Review journals. Dos Santos was chosen by the journal editors out…
Dr. Lauren Fitzgerald, chair of the Yeshiva College English Department and director of the Wilf Campus Writing Center, coauthored a chapter for the edited collection A Critical Look at Institutional Mission: A Guide for Writing Program Administrators. The chapter,“Negotiating Institutional Missions…
Dr. Jeffrey Gonzalez, associate professor at Ferkauf Graduate School of Psychology and the Diabetes Research Center of Albert Einstein College of Medicine, has co-authored an article in a special issue of American Psychologist, titled “Diabetes and Psychology.” The issue reviews the current and ...
Daniel Pollack, professor at Wurzweiler School Of Social Work, published two articles in the October 2016 Policy & Practice, the journal of the American Public Human Services Association. In “Client Safety: What Does ‘Line of Sight’ Mean?”, Pollack examines the legal implications of the mandate…
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