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Dr. John Pachankis, Assistant Professor of Psychology at Ferkauf Graduate School of Psychology, will deliver the distinguished address to the Third Annual International Congress on Interpersonal Acceptance and Rejection this summer in Padua, Italy. His address is entitled "Psychosocial mechanisms…

Dr. Lata K.McGinn, clinical psychology program director at Ferkauf Graduate School of Psychology is currently co-authoring a book titled Treatment Plans and Interventions for Anxiety and Depression (Guilford). She has also recently developed a psychotherapy intervention to prevent the development…

Rabbi Yosef Blau Mashgiach Ruchani, Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary US rabbis: Accept homosexuals YnetNews.com, July 28, 2010 Rabbi Kenneth Brander David Mitzner Dean, Center for the Jewish Future Don’t Write Off The Next Generation The Jewish Week, July 28, 2010 Dr. Michal L. Melamed ...

Edward A. Zelinsky Morris and Annie Trachman Professor of Law, Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law A Court Looks at the Real Problem with the Seventeenth Amendment The Atlantic, Jun. 20 2010 Rabbi Dr. Norman Lamm Rosh Yeshivah, Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary Of Faith and Fiction Frum ...

Using email to screen college students for major depressive disorder (MDD) appears to be a feasible and inexpensive way to detect MDD in this high-risk group, new research suggests. Commenting on the findings, Victor Schwartz, MD, university dean of students at Yeshiva University and associate ...

In a brief letter to the Editor of The New York Times, published on May 24, 2010, Dr. Frederick J. Streets, professor at the Wurzweiler School of Social Work at Yeshiva University, contends that government and tribal leaders of South Africa acknowledge the reality of H.I.V. and AIDS, and endorse ...

In Crown of Aleppo: The Mystery of the Oldest Hebrew Bible Codex (Jewish Publication Society of America), co-authors Hayim Tawil, professor of Hebrew Language and Literature at Yeshiva College, and Bernard Schneider tell the incredible story of survival, against all odds, of the Aleppo Codex—one of…

Dr. Victor Schwartz Associate professor of clinical psychiatry, Albert Einstein College of Medicine Email Feasible, Inexpensive Way to Screen for Depression in College Students Medscape, May 26, 2010 Dr. Nir Barzilai Professor, Departments of Medicine (Endocrinology) and Genetics, Albert Einstein…

Until now, scholars have portrayed America’s antiwar literature as an outgrowth of World War I, manifested in the works of writers such as Ernest Hemingway and John Dos Passos. But in War No More (Louisiana State University Press), Dr. Cynthia Wachtell, assistant professor of American literature…

Ever wonder what causes customers to retaliate against companies as opposed to simply turning to other companies to purchase the product or services instead? Dr. Daniel Laufer, associate professor of marketing at Sy Syms School of Business, was part of a team of three researchers that examined this…