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It’s been noted recently that a full calendar year has passed since COVID-19 was declared to be a pandemic and lockdowns and other safety protocols began. This unhappy milestone was reached several weeks ago on the Jewish calendar with the holiday of Purim, around which time in 2020 these ...

Articles Study Quantifies Benefit of Water Filtration System in Rural Ghana—Biotechnology professor Dr. Jochen Raimann’s study in Nature Research’s Scientific Reports found that purified water from a hemodialyzer membrane filtration system reduced life-threatening diarrhea in several Ghana villages…

Intro COVID-19 is a traumatic stressor impacting the lives of faculty and students globally. Whether or not you have had to move your classroom online, and no matter if you have been teaching for 3 or 20 years, the teaching tools that you have been using may no longer be effective. If you have ...

Who was Shabbetai Tzvi? Why was his messianic movement incredibly successful, even surviving the apostasy and death of the purported messiah? What lasting impact did this false messiah have on Jewish History? On Tuesday Feb. 16, over 400 people joined a Zoom lecture organized jointly by the Bernard…

By Dr. Orlee Hauser Director, Care Café The aftermath of the riot at the Capitol highlighted the emergence of hateful messages on social media. In response, Wurzweiler School of Social Work’s Care Café decided to fight hate with the only two weapons that work to destroy it: education and love. For…

Daniel Pollack (MSSA, MSW, JD), professor at the Wurzweiler School of Social Work, and Francesca LeRúe (MSW, MPA), strategic consultant, trainer and expert witness on child welfare, co-authored “ If Odysseus Were a Child Welfare Department Director” for the APSAC Advisor (Vol. 33, No. 1). Their ...

In January 2021, Froma Benerofe, the current chair of the Wurzweiler School of Social Work Board of Overseers, handed over the leadership of the Board to Julia Kagan Baumann, who joined the Board in 2014. Ms. Benerofe, who has had a long a career in social work, joined the Board in 1998 and assumed…

February 25, 2021 Michael Bettencourt On Wednesday, Feb. 17, 2021, the Azrieli Graduate School of Jewish Education and Administration, along with the Bernard Revel Graduate School of Jewish Studies and the Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary (RIETS) and supported by the Shevet Glaubach Center…

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OTD student Bredin Kamsi Kom, middle, props open a self-closing door with his wheelchair in a CVS. He and Julietta Gurgova, standing behind him, try to figure out how Bredin will gather items that are out of his reach. Assignments in Dr. Zesarae Bodie's Occupational Therapy Doctorate courses not ...