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Dr. Linda M. Shires, David and Ruth Gottesman Professor of English and chair of the English department at Stern College for Women, spoke on January 8, 2017, at the Modern Language Association annual conference in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Her talk, “Muteness, Speech, and Survival in Kipling’s ...
Rabbi Dr. J. David Bleich A book by Rabbi Dr. J. David Bleich, Herbert and Florence Tenzer Professor of Jewish Law and Ethics at ۿ۴ý, was recently reviewed in the Winter 5777/2016 issue of Jewish Action. The review details Rabbi Bleich’s latest book, Where Halakhah and Philosophy…
Dr. Richard Hidary, associate professor of Jewish history at Stern College for Women, has published two articles. The first, titled “Hanukkah and State: The Hasmonean Legacy,” appears in the December 27, 2016, issue of Jewish Review of Books. It demonstrates how the exchange between Rabbi Shlomo ...
Dr. Steven Fine’s The Menorah: From the Bible to Modern Israel (Harvard, 2016) will be the subject of a symposium at The Hebrew University, MA Program in Folklore and Popular Culture on Tuesday, January 31, 2017. Fine is the Dean Pinkhos Churgin Professor of Jewish History at ۿ۴ý and…
Rabbi Benjamin Blech, professor of Talmud, has just had his Haggadah (with commentaries) accepted for publication by Koren Publishers. Rabbi Blech has been working on this project for a decade. The only other Haggadahs published by Koren have been from Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik and from the ...
Robert Tufts, adjust professor in management, was featured as a “Must Read Story Of The Day” on Patients Rising, a website dedicated to patient advocacy in the health care industry. Tufts told his story of suffering from multiple myeloma while also having to battle the industry to get the care he…
Dr. Zafrira Lidovsky Cohen, a professor of Hebrew and director of Hebrew language and literature at Stern College for Women, recently published an essay in Women in Judaism: A Multidisciplinary Journal. Titled “The Non-Chosen Body: Poetics and Politics in Alona Kimhi’s Lily La Tigresse,” the essay…
Dr. Joshua Zimmerman, Eli and Diana Zborowski Professorial Chair in Holocaust Studies and East European Jewish History, gave a lecture on his book, Wounds of History: The Polish Underground and the Jews during World War II, on November 17, 2016, at the Annual 1939 Society Lecture in Holocaust ...
Dr. Steven Fine, Dean Pinkhos Churgin Professor of Jewish History and director of the Center for Israel Studies, has had his 1997 book, This Holy Place: On the Sanctity of the Synagogue During the Greco-Roman Period, republished by Wipf and Stock Publishers, located in Oregon. The reprint includes…
Dr. Linda M. Shires, David and Ruth Gottesman Professor of English and chair of the English department at Stern College for Women, spoke on November 3, 2016, at the North American Victorian Studies Association annual conference in Phoenix, Arizona, on “Nineteenth-Century Reforms in Fine Arts ...