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Several faculty members and a recent graduate of the Azrieli Graduate School of Jewish Education and Administration contributed to the Fall 2015 issue of Klal Perspectives: A Forum for Discussion of Challenges Facing the Torah Community. The issue was guest-edited by Dr. David Pelcovitz, the ...

Dr. Bruno Galantucci, associate professor of psychology at Yeshiva College, and student Benjamin Langstein recently co-authored an article with Dr. Gareth Roberts of the University of Pennsylvania that will appear in the March 2016 edition of Language and Communication. Titled “(In)sensitivity to…

Dr. Joy Ladin, David and Ruth Gottesman Chair in English at Yeshiva University, has been awarded a $25,000 2016 Creative Writing Fellowship by the National Endowment for the Arts. Ladin is the author of a memoir, National Jewish Jewish Book Award finalist Through the Door of Life: a Jewish Journey…

Dr. Steven Fine, the Dean Pinkhos Churgin Professor of Jewish History at Yeshiva University, contributed an essay to the forthcoming work Viewing Ancient Jewish Art and Archaeology: VeHinnei Rachel - Essays in Honor of Rachel Hachlili (Koninklijke Brill, 2016). Fine's essay, titled "The Open Torah…

Dr. Jeffrey S. Gurock, Libby M. Klaperman Professor of Jewish History at Yeshiva University, is interviewed in Hamodia Magazine's "The Good Old Days Were Not So Good for Shemiras Shabbos," a feature on the history of the five-day workweek that appeared in the magazine's November 25 edition. In the…

Dr. Sumanta Goswami, associate professor of biology at Yeshiva College, will publish an article in an upcoming edition of The Journal of Molecular Diagnostics. The paper, titled "The Application of Molecular Diagnostics to Stained Cytology Smears," was co-authored by Goswami's students, Evan Pieri…

A recent book published by Peninnah Schram, professor emerita of speech and drama at YU's Stern College for Women, was featured as the cover story of a recent edition of The New Jersey Jewish Standard. Titled Jewish Stories of Love and Marriage: Folktales, Legends and Letters and co-written by…

Dr. S. Abraham Ravid, the Sy Syms Professor of Finance at the Sy Syms School of Business, recently co-organized the 17th Annual Mallen Economics of Filmed Entertainment Conference, together with Olav Sorenson of the Yale School of Management. The conference, which ran from November 12-13 and was ...

Seamus O'Malley, English lecturer at Yeshiva University's Stern College for Women, recently contributed an essay to An I ntroduction to Ford Madox Ford, edited by Ashley Chantler and Rob Hawkes (Ashgate Publishing Ltd, December 2015). O'Malley's essay, "Ford and Modernism," analyzes Ford's work in…