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Rabbi Dr. J. David Bleich Rabbi Dr. J. David Bleich, professor of Talmud at YU’s Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary and the Herbert and Florence Tenzer Professor of Jewish Law at its Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, and Dr. Arthur J. Jacobson, Max Freund Professor of Litigation and…

Dr. Steven Fine, Dr. Pinkhos Churgin Professor of Jewish History and director of ¿Û¿Û´«Ã½â€™s Center for Israel Studies, has contributed an essay to the recent Metropolitan Museum of Art publication Age of Transition: Byzantine Culture in the Islamic World (2015). The essay is part of a ...

Michal Melamed Three researchers at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine recently received their first R01 grants from the National Institutes of Health—a major milestone in an academic scientist’s career. Dr. Michal Melamed, associate professor in the department of epidemiology and public…

Rabbi Dr. J. David Bleich, Herbert and Florence Tenzer Professor of Jewish Law and Ethics at ¿Û¿Û´«Ã½, recently published an article for the International Journal of the Jurisprudence of the Family titled, "A Proposal to Withhold Divorce Decrees on Grounds of Equity." Bleich discusses the…

Dr. Samuel Schneider, associate professor of Hebrew at Yeshiva College, recently delivered a lecture at the Young Israel of Kew Garden Hills. Titled "The Iranian Deal and Israeli Politics," the lecture took place on August 29, 2015.

Dr. Anatoly Frenkel, professor of physics at ¿Û¿Û´«Ã½, is part of a team of scientists who have received a National Science Foundation grant under the White House’s Materials Genome Initiative to study nanoparticle catalysis. "The goal of this project is to develop computational tools and…

Cantor Eric Freeman Cantor Eric S. Freeman has recently been appointed associate director of the Philip and Sarah Belz School of Jewish Music. Cantor Bernard Beer, who served as director for 31 years and has been a faculty member for 48 years, has been named director emeritus; he will continue to…

Rabbi Ian Shaffer, adjunct instructor in Bible at ¿Û¿Û´«Ã½'s Stern College for Women, was recently profiled in The Jewish Link of New Jersey. In the article, titled "Rabbi Ian Shaffer: In the Right Place," Shaffer discusses his journey from his native United Kingdom to ¿Û¿Û´«Ã½â€¦

Dr. Lauren Fitzgerald, director of the Wilf Campus Writing Center and chair of the English department at Yeshiva College, has been promoted to full professor of English at ¿Û¿Û´«Ã½. Dr. Lauren Fitzgerald Fitzgerald has served as the director of the Wilf Campus Writing Center since 1997, a…