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On Sunday, May 2, 2021, over 500 people on Zoom attended the book launch of The Rabbi of Buchenwald: The Life and Times of Herschel Schacter, written by Dr. Rafael Medoff and published by YU Press. Dr. Medoff is the founding director of The David S. Wyman Institute for Holocaust Studies, based in…

Stephen Howard Browne | Penn State University Press | 2020 Reviewed by Rabbi Dr. Stu Halpern During George Washington's first inaugural address on April 30, 1789, as Stephen Howard Browne writes in The First Inauguration: George Washington and the Invention of the Republic, America's first…

Rabbi Dr. Alan Brill During Sabbatical Year in India On Monday, April 12, 2021, the Jay and Jeanie Schottenstein Honors Program at Yeshiva College hosted Rabbi Dr. Alan Brill ’87YC, ’87BR, ’90R, the Cooperman/Ross Endowed Chair for Jewish-Christian Studies at Seton Hall University, to speak at its…

ISSUE 12 • May 3, 2021 Note from the Executive Director What is one sign that you are doing well at your internship? When people start speaking to you as an employee, and not as a summer time-limited intern. I always tell students, “Perform in the role you want, in addition to the one you have. Be…

Dr. Matthew Incantalupo, assistant professor of political science at Yeshiva University, and Dr. Zachary Oberfield, professor of political science at Haverford College, co-published “Racial Discrimination and Street-Level Managers: Performance, Publicness, and Group Bias” in Public Administration…

Cardozo News Commencement 2021 Will Be Held at SummerStage in Central Park Prof. Kate Levine Quoted on CBC Radio on Police's Blue Wall of Support in Criminal Cases Prof. Alex Reinert Discusses Qualified Immunity on Bloomberg’s UnCommon Law Podcast Prof. Lela Love Talks to Business Insider about Jur…

Throughout her career, Dr. Julie Kardachi has worked primarily with adults with neurological and orthopedic conditions. Dr. Julie Kardachi, who has decades of experience in a variety of clinical practice areas in occupational therapy, has been named director of the Occupational Therapy Doctorate ...

Rabbi Daniel Feldman For the spring 2021 semester, Rabbi Daniel Feldman, RIETS rosh yeshiva, is teaching Judaism and Economics. YU News sat down with Rabbi Feldman to discuss the course, which is being offered at Yeshiva College in collaboration with the Zahava and Moshael Straus Center for Torah…

In 2020, OU Press and Koren Publishers issued a very unique book written by Rabbi Dr. Benjy Leibowitz ’05YUHS, ’10YC, ’12A, ’13R and Michael Adler ’10YC: the Koren Yachad Siddur, one of the first, if not the first, siddur authored to meet the spiritual needs of those with developmental challenges…

Al-Farabi (left) and Maimonides (right) On Wednesday, March 10, 2021, the Zahava and Moshael Straus Center for Torah and Western Thought hosted Dr. Alexander Orwin, assistant professor of political theory at Louisiana State University, for a lecture titled “Al-Farabi and Maimonides on Self-…