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Dr. Kathryn Krase Co-authors Paper on Coping with COVID-19
Dr. Kathryn Krase, associate professor of social work at the Wurzweiler School of Social Work, co-authored “Micro, mezzo, and macro factors associated with coping in the early phase of COVID-19” for the Journal of Human Behavior in the Social Environment (Dec. 10, 2020). Her co-authors are Dr.…
Dr. Kathryn Krase Co-authors Paper on Social Work Assessment
Dr. Kathryn Krase, associate professor of social work at Wurzweiler School of Social Work, co-authored “Setting appropriate competency benchmarks to support successful social work program assessment” in Social Work Education (Nov. 16, 2020). Her co-authors included Dr. Dana J. Sullivan (Western ...
Dr. Akiva Perlman Co-authors Paper on Orthodox Jewish Social Workers
Dr. Akiva Perlman, professor at Wurzweiler School of Social Work, and Dr. Donna Wang (Springfield College) co-wrote “In their own words: Orthodox Jewish social workers integration of religion and values into practice” for the Journal of Religion & Spirituality in Social Work: Social Thought (…
Post-Holocaust Hanukah in Schirmeck, 1946
Rescue Children, Inc. home in Schirmeck,Hanukah, 1946Yeshiva University Archives The holiday of Hanukah, the Festival of Lights, celebrates the re-dedication of the Temple in Jerusalem by the Maccabees after its desecration by King Antiochus Epiphanes and the miracle of a day’s worth of oil burning…
Data Analytics Students Design System Indexing Hate Speech
Data analytics students at the Katz School of Science and Health have designed an intelligent system that identifies and indexes hate speech on the web. The team—Jacob Goodman, Qihua Zhu and Jeeho Bae—analyzed an online database, called Hatebase, which provides a taxonomy or encyclopedia of hate ...
Introducing the Community Justice Fellowship Program
The Wurzweiler School of Social Work Community Justice Fellowship Program (CJFP) was developed in response to the death of George Floyd on May 25, 2020, and a resultant increased awareness of and a growing societal demand for a response to the many problems plaguing local and national justice ...
President Woodrow Wilson’s Last Peacetime Thanksgiving Proclamation, 1916
Yeshiva University Archives,Central Relief Committee Collection, 26/4 The Central Relief Committee (CRC) issued a Thanksgiving appeal for Jewish War Sufferers in 1916, one example of the CRC’s fundraising efforts in its many years of work on behalf of Jews trapped between the warring sides during…
Financial Actors Seek Edge by Withholding Information
Quantitative Economics Assistant Professor Tadashi Hashimoto Providers of financial information have an economic incentive to delay its disclosure for strategic business reasons, according to a Yeshiva University analysis published in the Journal of Financial Economics. The paper, “ Information ...
Dr. Ephraim Kanarfogel Publishes a New Book
Dr. Ephraim Kanarfogel, E. Billi Ivry University Professor of Jewish History, Literature, and Law at the Bernard Revel Graduate School of Jewish Studies, has published Brothers from Afar: Rabbinic Approaches to Apostasy and Reversion in Medieval Europe, with Wayne State University Press, which has…
Remembering Lord Jonathan Sacks
By Dean Daniel Rynhold Today is Remembrance Sunday in the UK, when we honor the contributions of British and Commonwealth servicemen and women. I did not expect that it would also become a day on which I would, with deep sadness, also be honoring the memory of Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks. The sheer…

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