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Dr. Jeffrey Glanz, Raine and Stanley Silverstein Chair in Professional Ethics and Values at the Azrieli Graduate School of Jewish Education and Administration and senior fellow at the Institute for University-School Partnership, has co-authored a book titled Revisiting Dewey: Best Practices for ...

Dr. Karen Bacon will receive the Torah Chesed Award from �ۿ۴�ý Women’s Organization and the Future Builders Young Leadership at Lincoln Center’s Avery Fisher Hall on Saturday, November 13, 2010. The award will be presented at their 28th Après Dinner Gala, after a performance of ...

�ۿ۴�ý socio-linguist, Dr. Joshua A. Fishman, received an honorary certificate of membership to the Euskaltzaindia, or Royal Academy of the Basque Language, for his contribution to the struggle on behalf of “minoritized” languages on Octoober 3. A Distinguished University Research ...

Prof. Edith Lubetski, head librarian at Hedi Steinberg Library of Stern College for Women, presented a lecture titled “The Art and Science of a Biblical Bibliography,” at the Ninth Congress of the European Association for Jewish Studies (EAJS), held in Ravenna, Italy, on July 2010. The lecture ...

How has religious belief shaped American history? What role have religious ideas and spiritual experience played in shaping the social, political and cultural life of what has become the world's most religiously diverse nation? Dr. Jeffrey Gurock, the Libby M. Klaperman Professor of Jewish History…

Dr. Lawrence Glassman Assistant clinical professor of plastic surgery, Albert Einstein College of Medicine Doctor, Hospital Chairman Honored by Nyack Hospital Medical Staff Nyackpatch.com, Oct. 27, 2010 Dr. Paul Saenger Professor of pediatrics, Albert Einstein College of Medicine Stunting tall men…

A decade after child sexual abuse in the Orthodox Jewish community came to public light, there is a nascent but historic transformation taking place on the issue. Communal leaders, rabbis, mental health professionals, parents, school administrators and teachers, and survivors are ready to fully ...

Dr. Peninnah Schram's most recent anthology, THE HUNGRY CLOTHES AND OTHER JEWISH FOLKTALES (Sterling Publishing, 2008), has just be en published in a Spanish version titled PENINNAH SCHRAM, EL REI DELS CAPTAIRES I ALTRES CONTES HEBREUS. Published by Vicens Vives (Barcelona Spain), 2010, and ...

Dr. Manfred Weidhorn, Guterman Professor of English at Stern College for Women and Yeshiva College, has been published in the August 2010 issue of OTOLITHS. Weidhorn’s essay, "Is There an Afterlife--for Imaginary Persons?" speculates on what the protagonists of some of the most famous works of ...

Two professors at Wurzweiler School of Social Work, Drs. Joan Beder and Jonathan Fast, have been matched with international universities to serve as Fulbright Specialists in January. The Fulbright Specialist Program is designed to award grants to U.S. faculty and professionals in select disciplines…