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Care Cafe 2-20-18. By Gabrielle Mason Master creative arts therapist Heidi Landis’ warmth and wit turned our quiet Riverside Memorial Chapel space into an oasis of friendly play and connection for the Care Cafe: “Rewriting Your Story: The Art of Resilience and Moving Forward.” Heidi gently ...

By Danielle Wozniak, Dean of the Wurzweiler School of Social Work The storm blew in on Friday morning and by afternoon we were without power. We have a well, so no power means no running water, no heat, no electricity, no showers, no toilets. No fun. We filled the bath tubs with water so we could…

Care Cafe 2/12 By Michelle Bialeck Dr. Sari Skolnik, Assistant Professor at Wurzweiler School of Social work, brought her twenty years of clinical experience to Forest Hills Library for a Care Cafe presentation: “GPS for Passion: Finding Your Way to The Life You Want to Live.” From the start, Dr ...

Care Cafe 1/23 By Michelle Bialeck Wurzweiler School of Social Work PhD candidate, addiction recovery specialist, and founder of the New Jersey non-profit Balm In Gilead, Viva White visited Riverside Memorial Chapel to kick off the second of a series of Wurzweiler Care Cafes around New York City ...

Care Cafe 1/17 By Michelle Bialeck Wurzweiler School of Social Work at Yeshiva University was proud to present its first ever Wurzweiler Care Cafe at the Bronx Vet Center. Patrick Donohue, an Afghanistan Veteran, opened the event by describing Project 9 Line, a program he founded that strives to ...

In 2010/11, Dr. Mordechai Cohen headed a fourteen-member research group of distinguished scholars from America, Europe, and Israel at the Institute for Advanced Studies in Jerusalem. Their study aimed to bring to light aspects of interpretive approaches to sacred scriptures in the three faith ...

Doron Stern '81YUHS joined Yeshiva University as the vice president of communications last month. He oversees all communications and marketing activities, including branding, media relations, print and digital marketing collateral, websites and social media outreach. Stern has over 20 years of ...

The Book of Esther, the Purim Megilah, describes many forms of communication: dialogues, conversations, commands, pleas, reading aloud, eavesdropping, letters and decrees sent by messenger, among others. Perhaps based on this theme, the Jewish Welfare Board (J.W.B.) issued a Purim postcard during…

Mr. Leonard Grunstein Does G-d need the Tabernacle [i] or the Temple to live in and is that where G-d can be found? Isn’t G-d everywhere? Why then all this focus on the construction of the Tabernacle in last week’s Torah reading of Parshat Terumah and the accouterments of the High Priest in this ...

Prof. Adam Ferziger of Bar-Ilan University has researched and written about the way that Orthodox views toward nonobservant Jews developed between 1770 and 1918. This issue became acute because of the serious defection from Orthodoxy during that time. Indeed, by World War I, only twenty percent of…