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For Modern Orthodox Jews, navigating finances in your 20s can be intimidating.

Dr. Waldman-Levi and Dr. Anita Bundy will use their PC-SCP guide in two upcoming AOTA workshops on “Assessing the Co-Occupation of Joint Play.” Both will focus on how clinicians can assess the shared involvement and engagement of parents and children in joint play.

Dr. Amiya Waldman-Levi, director of scholarship and research in the Katz School’s Occupational Therapy Doctorate, found that fathers play like their child’s play partner, sometimes acting silly or mischievous to make play more fun.

From December 2023 to January 2024, faculty, staff, and students at the Straus Center have contributed numerous articles in a variety of venues.

On view in Pollack Library (2nd floor, Gottesman Library building) are twelve pencil and charcoal drawings, all from the third week of Carla Aurich's Principles of Drawing class, emphasizing the use of marks, as opposed to continuous line drawing. Marks are first used to measure height and width ...

On December 13, 2023, the Straus Center hosted Jack Miles for a virtual talk about his Pulitzer Prize-winning book God: A Biography, which was the focus of a Straus Scholars fall reading group led by Rabbi Dr. Dov Lerner and Dr. Shaina Trapedo.

Judy Chalouh-Benjamin's educational fall-prevention education series, which covered everything from hazard identification to falling safely, was one of seven student presentations during a Capstone Dissemination Day in August.

The Straus Center convened a series of seminars by Israeli scholars, journalists, ethicists and public figures at the Menachem Begin Heritage Center in Jerusalem, and the students conducted volunteering missions on behalf of soldiers, children, and families.

In their paper, Dr. Marian Gidea and Ph.D. student Samuel Akingbade discuss how Topological Data Analysis identifies patterns and features in data not apparent through traditional statistical methods.