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Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks, the Kressel and Ephrat Family University Professor of Jewish Thought at Yeshiva University, was recently interviewed on by Christiane Amanpour on CNN about Israel, the Mideast peace process, anti-Semitism, Jewish-Catholic relations and Ariel Sharon.

Peninnah Schram, professor of speech and drama at Yeshiva University's Stern College for Women, recently published an essay in CCAR Journal: The Reform Jewish Quarterly. Titled "Storytelling and Spirituality: Sacred and Shared Between Generations," the article appeared in the Winter 2014 issue of…

Dr. Carmen Ortiz Hendricks, the Dorothy and David I. Schachne Dean of Yeshiva University's Wurzweiler School of Social Work, recently published the second edition of Learning to Teach, Teaching to Learn: A Guide for Social Work Education (Council on Social Work Education Press 2013). In the new ...

Dr. Marina Holz, associate professor of biology at Yeshiva University's Stern College for Women, recently published an article in Cell Cycle. Titled "Resveratrol prevents rapamycin-induced upregulation of autophagy and selectively induces apoptosis in TSC2-deficient cells," the article demonstrates…

Dr. Tamar Avnet, associate professor of marketing and department chair of marketing and management at YU's Sy Syms School of Business, has a forthcoming article in the Journal of Consumer Psychology, one of the top marketing journals in consumer behavior research . The article, "Regulatory Fit: A…

Dr. Henry Huang, associate professor of accounting at YU's Sy Syms School of Business, will publish an article in Contemporary Accounting Research, a top academic accounting journal. The article, "Hedge Fund Intervention and Accounting Conservatism," explores the value implications of hedge fund ...

Professor Edith Lubetski, head librarian of Stern College for Women's Hedi Steinberg Library, delivered a paper at the 16th World Congress of Jewish Studies in Jerusalem on August 1. The paper was titled "Database Searching for Biblical Studies."

Peninnah Schram, professor of speech and drama at YU's Stern College for Women, recently published two articles in the October/November/December 2013 issue of Storytelling Magazine. The articles are titled "The Wisdom of a Listening Heart" and "Folktale Connections: Before 'Lifting Words Off' the…

Dr. Ephraim Kanarfogel, E. Billi Ivry University Professor of Jewish History, Literature and Law at Yeshiva University, is the recipient of the Association of Jewish Studies’ (AJS) 2013 Jordan Schnitzer Book Award in the fields of Biblical Studies, Rabbinics, and Jewish History and Culture in ...

An article in Forbes Magazine recently highlighted a study coauthored by Dr. Shu Han, assistant professor of management information systems at Yeshiva University's Sy Syms School of Business. Titled "Scientific Evidence Proves Larry Ellison is Right About Engineered Systems," the article cites Han'…