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While suicide is the 10th leading cause of death, suicide among veterans is twice that of the general population. More than 20 service members kill themselves each day, according to a 2018 report published by the U.S. Dept. of Veteran Affairs. This tragedy was the focal point of the February 26th…

Professor Deena Rabinovich is the director of the Legacy Heritage Foundation program at Yeshiva University’s Stern College for Women, where she has also taught Tanakh since 2004. Deena taught Chumash at Yeshiva University High School for Girls from 2004 through 2009. Prior to that, she taught…

Happy Fair Use Week! Fair Use Week 2019 runs from February 25 through March 1 and promotes the awareness and significance of this valuable legal doctrine that provides the framework through which use may be made of copyrighted material without permission. This limitation on creators’ intellectual…

The Chinese-Jewish Conversation at Yeshiva University by Michael Bettencourt for YU News On Tuesday, February 12, 2019, East and West met at a special event titled “China and Israel: How did ancient states emerge? Archaeological perspectives,” which took place in the David Yagoda Commons on the ...

Sandra (Sandy) Moore has been named the new Head Librarian for Pollack Library. Hedi Steinberg Library on the Beren Campus has been awarded a grant from Assemblywoman Nily Rozic through DASNY (Dormitory Authority of the State of New York) for a dedicated research instruction facility and ...

Sandy Moore On January 22, 2019 Yeshiva University welcomed Pollack Library's new Head Librarian, Sandra Moore. Sandy comes to us from Allen Community College in Iola, Kansas, where she served as Library Director and Academic Support Division Chair. In those roles she reported to the Vice President…

By Michael Bettencourt On February 12, 2019 · Leave a Comment Dr. Daniel Tsadik, associate professor of Sephardic and Iranian studies at Bernard Revel Graduate School of Jewish Studies, has recently published The Jews of Iran and Rabbinic Literature: New Perspectives by Mosad Ha-Rav Kook (Jerusalem…

Rabbi Dr. Yosef Kalinsky earned his BA in economics at Yeshiva College, his master’s in education at Azrieli Graduate School, his masters in social work at the Wurzweiler School of Social Work, and his semikhah at RIETS, where he subsequently was a fellow in the Bella and Harry Wexner Kollel Elyon…

Mr. Leonard Grunstein Leonard Grunstein The Times of Israel The Blogs February 4, 2019 The Art of Compromise ‘It’s a matter of principle’ or ‘I’m right and you’re wrong’ are conversation stoppers that frustrate efforts to resolve a dispute between opposing parties. Worse yet is an ad hominem attack…

Mr. Leonard Grunstein The Times of Israel The Blogs Jan 24, 2019 Kvetching and the Divine Does G-d appreciate our complaining? If not then why is it such a quintessential part of the human condition? Oh, sure there are stoics among us; but most can’t repress the urge to complain about something, at…