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Dr. Elazar Hurvitz’s recently published two-volume book, The Cairo Geniza Fragments in the Westminster College Library, published by the Cairo Geniza Institute of Yeshiva University, is the culmination of three decades of research he conducted on the Westminster College collection in Cambridge ...

Dr. Evan Resnick, assistant professor of political science, recently published an article in Harvard University's International Security journal entitled "Debating British Decsionmaking toward Nazi Germany in the 1930's." International Security is published by Harvard University's Belfer Center for…

Dr. Hayim Tawil Associate professor of Hebrew languages and literature, Yeshiva College Secret Mission Rescues Yemen's Jews The Wall Street Journal, Oct. 31, 2009 Rabbi Moses TendlerThe Rabbi Isaac and Bella Tendler Professor of Jewish Medical Ethics and is professor of biology, Yeshiva University…

Dr. Stephen Pimpare (left), associate professor of political science at Yeshiva College and Wurzweiler School of Social Work, is the winner of this year’s Michael Harrington Book Award from the New Political Science section of the American Political Science Association (APSA) for his book A People’…

Jan Vijg (left), PhD, chairman of genetics at Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University, will lead a study the impact of damage to DNA on aging and disease. The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has awarded a five-year, $11.2 million grant to the study. Research funded by this ...

Researchers at Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University have identified two small protein fragments that could be developed into an anthrax vaccine that may cause fewer side-effects than the current vaccine. The research is significant because anthrax is considered a major ...

Dr. Sheldon R. Gelman (left), the Dorothy and David I. Schachne Dean of Wurweiler School of Social Work, recently served as a panelist along with Dr. Peter B. Vaughn, dean of Fordham University Graduate School of Social Service, and Dr. Richard L. Edwards, dean of Rutgers University School of…

Rabbi Menachem Genack, a rosh yeshiva [professor of Talmud] at Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary, edited The Seder Night: An Exalted Evening (OU Press, 2009), a new Haggadah with a commentary by Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik and dedicated by Julius Berman, chairman of the Seminary's Board.

Carole Silver, professor of English at Stern College for Women, edited Sarah Heckford: A Lady Trader in the Transvaal (Parlor Press, Indiana 2008). Part of a series called "Writing Travel," it is about the South African adventures of an Anglo-Irish gentlewoman who becomes, among other things, a ...

Dr. Peter DaviesProfessor of pathology and neuroscience, Albert Einstein College of Medicine “Collisions met head-on” The Baltimore Sun, Sept. 30, 2009 Alex ReinertAssistant professor of law, Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law “Ex-Bush officials face lawsuits over their actions” Associated Press ...