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A German novel based on a book by Dr. Jeffrey Freedman, associate professor of history at Yeshiva University , was recently published by Cosmos Verlag. Freedman’s book, A Poisoned Chalice (Princeton University Press 2002), uses original archival material to reconstruct a long-forgotten criminal…

An article co-written by Dr. Daniel Pollack, professor at YU’s Wurzweiler School of Social Work, will appear in an upcoming issue of Temple Political and Civil Rights Law Review. The article, which Pollack co-authored with Khaya Eisenberg and Amanda Sundarsingh, seeks to determine whether a history…

The Azrieli Papers: Dimensions of Orthodox Day School Education (KTAV Publishing House, 2011), edited by Dr. David J. Schnall, Herbert Schiff Professor of Management and Administration and dean of Yeshiva University’s Azrieli Graduate School for Jewish Education and Administration, and Dr. Moshe ...

Dr. Scott J. Goldberg, director of Yeshiva University’s Institute for University-School Partnership, and Rabbi Maccabee Avishur, associate director for teaching and learning at the University-School Partnership, will keynote two Shabbatons at the Kemp Mill Synagogue and Beth Sholom, respectively,…

Dr. David Pelcovitz, Gwendolyn and Joseph Straus Chair in Psychology and Jewish Education at YU, will lead a Positive Jewish Parenting program organized by the West Side Institutional Synagogue and the Orthodox Union on February 18. The program, titled “How to Speak to Your Children about Difficult…

A book published in honor of Peninnah Schram, professor of speech at Stern College for Women, has been selected as a finalist for a 2012 National Jewish Book Award by the Jewish Book Council. The book, Mitzvah Stories: Seeds for Inspiration and Learning, is one of three finalists in the Education…

An article by Dr. Aaron Levine a”h, the late Samson and Halina Bitensky Professor of Economics at Yeshiva University, will appear in the 2013 Springer Handbook of the Philosophical Foundations of Business Ethics. His article, “Imitatio Dei and Jewish Business Ethics,” is one of more than 78 ...

Dr. Linda M. Shires, David and Ruth Gottesman Professor and Chair of the English Department at Stern College for Women, recently published essays on color theory and on Thomas Hardy. “On Color Theory, 1835: George Field’s Chromatography,” published in BRANCH: Britain, Representation and Nineteenth…

Dr. Naomi Grunhaus, associate professor of Bible at Stern College for Women, recently published a book about medieval Jewish commentator Rabbi David Kimhi, known as the Radak. Titled Challenge of Received Tradition: Dilemmas of Interpretation in Radak's Biblical Commentaries (Oxford University…

A recent article published by Dr. Tamar Avnet, associate professor of marketing at the Sy Syms School of Business, has been cited in several scientific publications. The article, which focused on the role of feelings and emotions in consumers’ purchasing decisions, was originally published in the…