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By Sam Gelman Communications and Program Officer The Jewish World of Alexander Hamilton by Andrew Porwancher In The Jewish World of Alexander Hamilton, published by Princeton University Press, Dr. Andrew Porwancher looks at Hamilton’s origins and determines that he was in all likelihood born and ...

Dr. Elizabeth Seng Dr. Elizabeth Seng, associate professor at Ferkauf Graduate School of Psychology and research associate professor in the Department of Neurology at Albert Einstein College of Medicine, will use a grant from the National Institutes for Health/Nation Center for Complementary and ...

Dr. S. Abraham Ravid, professor of finance and chair of the finance department at Sy Syms School of Business, spoke with National Public Radio’s Marketplace on Aug. 13, 2021, about how the “vertical integration” of streaming studios today evokes old Hollywood’s power. Below is an edited transcript…

Sarit Kattan Gribetz | Princeton University Press | 2020 Reviewed by Rabbi Dr. Stu Halpern In her National Jewish Book Award-winning Time and Difference in Rabbinic Judaism, Sarit Kattan Gribetz seeks to uncover the rabbinic conception of time. Starting with a charming anecdote about having to get…

Dr. James Kahn (photo courtesy of Wallethub) In Wallethub’s recent review of “2021’s Best Personal Loans,” Dr. James Kahn, Henry and Bertha Kressel University Professor of Economics and chair, Department of Economics at Yeshiva University, was one of several experts asked for their insights about…

Cardozo News Cardozo’s LL.M. Class of 2022 Begins Its Law School Journey at In-Person Orientation Professor Pamela Foohey Comments on Federal Student Loan Forgiveness in The Hill Professor Edward Zelinsky’s Legal Challenge to NY State Tax Rules Reported in Bloomberg E. Nathaniel Gates Scholars ...

Cardozo News Dean Melanie Leslie Comments to CNN Business about Activision Lawsuit Professor Kate Shaw Testifies Before Senate Judiciary Committee, Focusing on Conflicts Between Executive Privilege and Congressional Oversight Professor Edward Zelinsky’s Legal Challenge to NY State Tax Rules…

The summer of 2021 brought a welcome surprise to the school children of Lod, Israel. From June 27 to July 26, eighteen undergraduates from Yeshiva University, all counselors in the Counterpoint Israel program, taught English and mentored more than 400 elementary and high school students in the…

The exhibition, Kindertransport – Rescuing Children on the Brink of War, first opened at the Yeshiva University Museum on Nov. 26, 2018. From July 22 to Oct. 31, 2021, it will have a new life at the American Swedish Institute in Minneapolis, Minnesota. The exhibition illuminates the story of the ...

By Shulamith Berger Curator of Special Collections and Hebraica-Judaica The old adage, don’t judge a book by its cover, fails to consider that the cover itself may tell a story. Yeshiva University LibraryStrauss 2208 Three manuscript fragments were sewn together to create this cover of Sefer…