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Dear Wurzweiler Alumni, Welcome to our new Alumni Newsletter! We have much to celebrate in this first issue and in the following ones to come. As we move into our 60 th year of existence, we have conferred thousands of master’s degrees and hundreds of doctoral degrees. We are proud of the immense…

by Daniel Pollack In New Jersey, you can be a foster parent before you're able to buy a cigarette. The minimum age to buy cigarettes -- 19; the minimum age to be a foster parent -- 18. In Alabama, Massachusetts, Michigan, Montana, Nebraska, and New Jersey, you can be a foster parent before being ...

WELCOME TO COMMUNITY: Connecting Wurzweiler Alumni and Friends Pictured L to R - Sheila Yossem (Director of Admissions), Dr. Lynn Levy (Professor), Virginia Kurlander (Assistant to the Dean), Dr. Daniel Pollack (Professor), and Marc Raco (Office Manager) We are delighted to present this first ...

Alumni Spotlight - How Are You Changing the World? "My Work/My Passion!" by Irene Borins Ash (MSW '87 - Toronto, Canada) I graduated from Wurzweiler School of Social Work in 1987. My work was always with seniors and their families. Over the years I began to question why some seniors aged with a ...

Diana (Benmergui) Chadi '05S, '10W has been the university registrar for Yeshiva University since 2011. Previously, she served as the associate registrar at the Beren Campus for five years and as a presidential fellow in 2005-2006. She received her BA from Stern College for Women in 2005, her MSW…

As the newest CEO of Genie Retail Energy, Inc.—which includes IDT Energy, one of the largest independent suppliers of electricity and natural gas to those who live in the Eastern United States—Michael Stein ’07YC has no small job before him. But, he said, he’s up for the task, and partially because…

Eva London Ritt of Orlando, Florida, has presented her personal collection of materials from the Soviet Jewry movement to the Yeshiva University Archives. Ritt dedicated the collection of correspondence, newspaper clippings, photographs and artifacts on work to free Soviet Jews during the 1970s and…

The Memorial Foundation for Jewish Culture has awarded a Doctoral Scholarship to Revel PhD candidate Yael Landman for 2015-2016. Through its generous dissertation grants, the Foundation helps train qualified individuals for careers in Jewish scholarship and research. Yael is a doctoral candidate in…

Before he became the Associate Director of Operations in the Office of Admissions at Yeshiva University—his current position— Matthew Schwartz ’04YUHS, ’11YC, spent a year (2011-2012) working in Admissions as a Presidential Fellow, where he gained valuable insight into the nature of both admissions…

Dr. Joshua Zimmerman, Associate Professor of History and Eli and Diana Zborowski Professorial Chair in Interdisciplinary Holocaust Studies, has published a new book entitled, The Polish Underground and the Jews, 1939–1945 (Cambridge University Press, 2015). This book examines one of the central ...