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Professor Alan Broder has taught Computer Science at Stern College for Women since 2013, and is chair of the department. In 2017 he was awarded the Dean Karen Bacon award for teaching excellence. Professor Broder is an expert Computer Scientist, with decades of experience in supercomputing and ...

Academic Prize For Scholarly Form Of Blood Libel: Scholar maintains IDF seeks to maim Palestinians to exploit them more easily. by David Berger for the Jewish Week At a week-long conference on anti-Semitism held in Vienna in February, I presented a paper addressing responses to the blood libel ...

By Mr. Leonard Grunstein All you need in life is balance; haven’t we all received this advice, at one time or another? But, is this sentiment anything more than an endearing platitude? When I was younger, hearing this guidance sympathetically expressed was often annoying. We had little time for…

By Mr. Leonard Grunstein for Times of Israel Wake up! Don’t just stand there. The crying sounds of the Shofar shake our complacency. It’s a call to action during the ten-day period, beginning with Rosh Hashanah and ending on Yom Kippur, known as the Days of Awe or the Ten Days of Repentance. Rosh…

Welcome back to our campuses—with good wishes to all for a productive year in 5779 from the University Libraries. Watch this Office Hours video, produced by Marketing & Communications and featuring librarians Wendy Kosakoff and Rina Krautwirth. New! Online group study room bookings for Hedi ...

by MICHAEL BETTENCOURT on SEPTEMBER 6, 2018 · LEAVE A COMMENT Dr. Ronnie Perelis is the Chief Rabbi Dr. Isaac Abraham and Jelena (Rachel) Alcalay Associate Professor of Sephardic Studies and director of The Rabbi Arthur Schneier Center for International Affairs. This past August, he presented at…

A century ago, Rosh Hashanah in 1918 for Jews in the United States was different than any prior ones during the First World War. Until April 1917, American Jews had only been involved in the war as onlookers who worried about their fellow Jews suffering in the midst of the war in Eastern Europe ...

Geri Mansdorf grew up in Brooklyn and attended Yeshiva University High School for girls there. She has a masters degree in education and administration from the Azrieli Graduate School, and taught in the Hebrew Academy of Long Beach before coming to Yeshiva University. Geri's husband Asher is a ...

Camp Machanaim, “the American Camp With Jewish Spirit” for girls and boys was established in 1929 near Monticello, New York. The name Machanaim was consciously adopted from the biblical verse in Genesis, “And Jacob said when he saw them: `This is God’s camp.’ And he called the name of that place ...

Tu B’Av (15 th day of the month of Av), the ancient holiday when young single women of Jerusalem danced in the vineyards hoping to find their mates, is historically a festive day when thoughts of young men and women turned to marriage. Today, Tu B’Av is a popular time for weddings, which are ...