Dr. Maria Zaitseva, adjunct instructor in political science, was featured in an interview with i24 news (an English-language Israeli channel) on April 12 about the relationship between the United States and North Korea. She provided a brief analysis of the new administration’s approach in putting…
Dr. Emil Prodan, professor of physics, has published his second book, A Computational Non-Commutative Geometry Program for Disordered Topological Insulators (Springer, 2017). It is part of the Springer Briefs in Mathematical Physics. An abstract for the books states the following: “This work ...
Rabbi Dr. J. David Bleich Rabbi J. David Bleich’s volumes on contemporary halakha [Jewish legal] problems demonstrate the ability of the Jewish mesorah [tradition] to respond to changed conditions and advances in knowledge. He is professor of Talmud at the Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary…
Dr. Ephraim Kanarfogel, E. Billi Ivry University Professor of Jewish History, Literature and Law, recently published three articles: “Rabbinic Conceptions of Matchmaking in Medieval Europe,” in Entangled Histories: Knowledge, Authority, and Jewish Culture in the Thirteenth Century (University of ...
Dr. Marian Gidea, chair of the mathematics department at Stern College for Women, has been awarded two grants as an organizer of the international conference, “A Broad Perspective on Finite and Infinite Dimensional Dynamical Systems,” to be held at University of Barcelona, Spain, from June 12 to ...
Dr. Steven Fine, Dean Pinkhos Churgin Professor of Jewish History and director of the Center for Israel Studies, has two recent accomplishments. On December 15, 2016, Fine gave a lecture at the Metropolitan Museum of Art on his book The Menorah: From the Bible to Modern Israel. The 40-minute…
Daniel Pollack, professor at the Wurzweiler School of Social Work, and Toby G. Kleinman, a lawyer and instructor at Nova Southeastern University, have co-authored Domestic Abuse, Child Custody, and Visitation: Winning in Family Court, published this year by Oxford University Press. Pollack…
Dr. Silke Aisenbrey, associate professor of sociology and chair of the department, recently published three peer-reviewed articles. In 2017, she and Dr. Anette Fasang of the Berlin Social Science Center co-authored “The Interaction of Employment- and Family-Trajectories: Germany and the United ...
Dr. Steven Fine, Dean Pinkhos Churgin Professor of Jewish History and director of the Center for Israel Studies at ۿ۴ý, presented a copy of his book, The Menorah: From the Bible to Modern Israel (Harvard University Press 2016) to Dalia Rabin-Pelossof at an event at the Rabin Center…
Dr. Emil Prodan, professor of physics, published an article titled, “Dynamical Majorana Edge Modes in a Broad Class of Topological Mechanical Systems,” in the February 23rd edition of Nature Communications. The study detailed in the article was conducted on phonons, which are quantities, like small…