YU News

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 ...

An article, written by Wurzweiler professor Daniel Pollack, JD and recently published in an issue of Policy & Practice, deals with the important issue of Sexual assault of minors in rural areas. From Professor Pollack: "I've been involved in nearly seventy-five expert witness cases around the…

"We listen to people’s pain. We try to relate to it, no matter how insane." Ariel Mozeson, MSW WSSW '15 On May 11th, 2015 Wurzweiler School of Social Work congratulated fifty MSW and PhD graduates as they completed their Wurzweiler experience and began their careers as professional social workers…

“Pursuing the mission, vision and values of this privileged and humble profession is critical to achieving a just and compassionate society.” Athena Motal, PhD WSSW '15 On May 11th, 2015 Wurzweiler School of Social Work congratulated fifty MSW and PhD graduates as they completed their Wurzweiler ...

“They say that it takes a special type of person to be a social worker; someone who has a vision of change.” Temimah Zucker, MSW, WSSW '15 On May 11th, 2015 Wurzweiler School of Social Work congratulated fifty MSW and PhD graduates as they completed their Wurzweiler experience and began their ...

“Every one of us has the ability to save the world, one person at a time, one agency at a time, or one community at a time.” Ted Alter, WSSW PhD, '15 On May 11th, 2015 Wurzweiler School of Social Work congratulated fifty MSW and PhD graduates as they completed their Wurzweiler experience and began…

Left to right: Dr. Darla Spence Coffey, President and CEO of CSWE; Dr. Carmen Ortiz Hendricks, Chair of CSWE’s Commission on Accreditation; Dr. Alan Detlaff, Chair of the Commission on Educational Policy; and Dr. Jo Ann Regan, Director of Social Work Accreditation. The 2015 Educational Policy (EP…

Blogging, public speaking, running a website, counseling patients and volunteering: It’s all in a day’s work for Temimah Zucker, 24, a student at Yeshiva University’s Wurzweiler School of Social Work. Temimah Zucker, a recovered anorexic, is helping others cope with eating disorders Zucker, of ...

Dear Students, On a day when it was understandably hard for all of us to focus, you did exactly that demonstrating a good deal of maturity and sensitivity throughout the meeting. The opening discussion about how the security situation impacts on our lives powerfully demonstrated how raw and complex…