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On Monday, Oct. 7, 2019, the students in the Bet Tzedek Civil Litigation Clinic of the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law held an Advanced Directives Pop-Up Clinic for constituents from New York State Assemblyman Al Taylor’s Northern Manhattan district. The Pop-Up Clinic was held in the senior…

Dr. David Lavinsky, associate professor of English at Yeshiva College, gave a talk at the Biennial London Chaucer Conference, organized by the Institute of English Studies at the University of London, from June 28-29, 2019. The conference topic was “Chaucer and Europe,” and Dr. Lavinsky’s talk, ...

Dr. Rachel Mesch, professor of English and French and chair of the English Department at Yeshiva College, presented at a conference from May 28-29, 2019, titled “Des Revues et des Femmes,” organized by the Sorbonne Université. The two-day colloquium explored the relationship between 20th-century ...

Dr. Lauren Fitzgerald, professor of English at Yeshiva College and director of the Wilf Campus Writing Center, presented at the 6th Annual Conference of the International Crime Fiction Association at the Università degli Studi “G. d’Annunzio” in Pescara, Italy, from June 12-15, 2019. Her paper, ...

David Puretz teaches first-year writing and advanced writing classes at Yeshiva College. He recently became the editorial director at Global City, a publishing collective started by Linsey Abrams in the early 1990s that for the past 25 years has published the literary and cultural journal Global ...

On Oct. 3, 2019, the Yeshiva University community lost a dear and beloved professor, Bob Tufts, after a 10-year battle with cancer. Bob will be missed by students, faculty and alumni of Yeshiva University. What follows are reflections on the passing of this wonderful man. Michael Strauss, Associate…

Professor Jessica Roth is a Guest on CBS Radio Professor Jessica Roth was a guest on CBS Radio to discuss the impeachment inquiry. She expects the President to cite executive privilege regarding previous actions. “The fact that the White House has released so much information on these matters ...

On Oct. 5, 2019, Dr. Linda Shires, David and Ruth Gottesman Professor of English Chair, Stern College for Women and division head for humanities, lectured at an invitation-only symposium at Princeton University, “A Single Drop of Ink for a Mirror: A Symposium on Nineteenth-Century Literature and…

On Sept. 25, 2019, the Ferkauf Graduate School of Psychology hosted the second biannual Big Apple Health Psychology Colloquium in the Weissberg Commons on the Wilf campus. The colloquium is a student-led event that brings together psychology doctoral students in the New York City area who have an…

Shulamith Z. Berger Curator of Special Collections and Hebraica-Judaica Does your name belong to you? What about your photo or image? Does it matter if you’re dead or alive? May your name or likeness be used for commercial purposes? These queries fall under the question of publicity rights, defined…