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Yeshiva University President Richard M. Joel delivered the keynote presentation at the Leadership Summit of the Jewish Federation of Monmouth County on September 7, on the topic of imperatives and challenges of change. Titled “Change for God’s Sake,” President Joel’s address outlined how a leader…

Rabbi Benjamin Blech, professor of Talmud at Yeshiva University, spoke at the AIPAC’s third National Rabbinic Symposium on September 3 in Washington D.C. The symposium afforded American pulpit rabbis the opportunity to meet and hear insightful leaders and speakers on the topic of United States and…

Professor Joy Ladin, David and Ruth Gottesman Professor of English and director of the Beren Writing Center, will publish her seventh book of poetry, Impersonation (Sheep Meadow Press), in spring 2015. Ladin’s poems were recently featured in Sweet, Cutbank, Right Hand Pointing, and The Forward ...

Dr. Emil Prodan, associate professor of physics at Yeshiva University’s Stern College for Women, recently published an article in the September 2014 edition of Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical, a journal reporting on the mathematical structures that describe the fundamental ...

Rabbi Kenneth Brander, Vice President for University and Community Life, recently participated in the Chief Rabbi Cyril Harris Annual Rabbinical Conference via skype together with 60 rabbis from the South African Jewish community. Rabbi Brander’s lecture focused on a vision for a synagogue and ...

Dr. Arthur Hyman, distinguished service professor of philosophy and former dean of Yeshiva University's Bernard Revel Graduate School of Jewish Studies, will be recognized with the Alumni Award of Merit at the St. John’s College where he received his Bachelor of Arts degree in 1944. The award,…

Peninnah Schram, professor of speech and drama at YU’s Stern College for Women, recently published a story in New Mitzvah Stories for the Who le Family (Reclaiming Judaism Press, 2014), an anthology of 43 stories in honor of poet Danny Siegel. Her story is titled, “Bringing Joy to Others.” The…

Professor Ephraim Kanarfogel, E. Billi Ivry University Professor of Jewish History, Literature and Law at Yeshiva University, has been named to the Executive Committee of the American Academy for Jewish Research, where he joins colleagues from Columbia University, Princeton University, the ...

Dr. Gabriel Cwilich and Dr. Neer Asherie have both been promoted to full professor of physics and full professor of physics and biology, respectively, at Yeshiva University's Yeshiva College. Gabriel Cwilich Cwilich is the director of Yeshiva College's Jay and Jeanie Schottenstein Honors Program…

Dr. Gillian Steinberg, associate professor of English and director of writing at Yeshiva University's Yeshiva College, has recently published an analytic book on the works of Thomas Hardy. Thomas Hardy: The Poems (Analysing Texts) (Palgrave Macmillan, September 2013) offers an approachable ...