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Oxford University Press has recently published Economic Morality and Jewish Law, written by the late Rabbi Dr. Aaron Levine z”l , former Samson and Halina Bitensky Professor of Economics at Yeshiva University. A leading authority on Jewish commercial law, Levine published widely on the interface ...

Dr. Emil Prodan, assistant professor of physics at Yeshiva University’s Stern College for Women, will present Stern College’s first physics conference, “ Blackboard Lectures in Condensed Matter Physics,” from July 16-19. Funded by the National Science Foundation, the lectures will demonstrate a ...

A natol y F re nkel, professor of physics at Yeshiva University, is part of a team of physicists who have secured a three-year grant for nearly $2 million from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) to study how sub-microscopic manmade nanoclusters can be used to create more efficient energy sources…

Dr. Harvey Babich, professor of biology at Stern College for Women, Dr. Harriet Zuckerbraun, clinical associate professor of biology, Dr. Jeffrey Weisburg, clinical assistant professor of biology, Dr. Alyssa Schuck, clinical assistant professor of biology, and Stern College senior Ilana Ickow ...

An article by Yeshiva University’s Dr. Sergey Buldyrev, professor of physics, was recently cited in a work published in Physics Today, the flagship publication of the American Institute of Physics. The Physics Today article, “ Networks in Motion,” cited a 2010 article published by Buldyrev in…

Dr. Eliezer Jones, educational technology specialist at Yeshiva University’s Institute for University-School Partnership, delivered the keynote address at the Board of Jewish Education - Los Angeles retreat for heads of school and Yeshiva principals on March 28, 2012. Jones’ presentation was titled…

Dr. Lee Manion, assistant professor of English at Stern College for Women, recently traveled to the annual meeting of the Medieval Academy of America in St. Louis, MO to receive the Van Courtlandt Elliott Prize for 2012 for the best article published by a first-time author in the area of medieval…

Dr. Michelle Levine, associate professor of Bible at Stern College for Women, presented an academic paper at the 43rd Annual Conference of the Association for Jewish Studies, held in Washington, D.C.’s Grand Hyatt on Dec. 18-20, 2011. Titled “Nahmanides’ Structural Analysis of the Pattern and…

Without a doubt, the Jewish holidays are the high points of the Jewish calendar. Purim is no exception, with its whirlwind of Megillah reading, skits, costumes, mishloach manot, and general frenetic activity bordering on the frivolous. Rabbi Dr. Norman Lamm, Chancellor and former President of ...

Dr. Scott J. Goldberg, inaugural Director of the Institute for University – School Partnership and associateprofessor at Yeshiva University’s Azrieli Graduate School of Jewish Education and Administration, shared his expertise with parents, grandparents and educators at Congregation Ahavas Achim's…