Dr. Karen Shawn, visiting associate professor of Jewish education, and Dr. Jeffrey Glanz, the Raine and Stanley Silverstein Professor of Professional Ethics and Values, both at Azrieli Graduate School of Jewish Education and Administration are the editors of a new journal, PRISM: An Interdisciplinary Journal for Holocaust Educators. It is published by Azrieli with funding from the [...]

   Dr. Jonathan Feldman, assistant professor at Ferkauf Graduate School of Psychology, is the co-recipient of a $2.5 million grant from the National Institute of Health’s National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine to study ethnic disparities in childhood asthma. The grant is shared with researchers at Arizona State University. Research will be conducted by [...]

Dr. Jill Katz, adjunct professor of anthropology and archaeology at Yeshiva University, recently published The Archaeology of Cult in Middle Bronze Age Canaan (Gorgias Press). The book is based on Prof. Katz’s archaeological research at the biblical site of Gerar (Tell Haror) in southern Israel and attempts to unearth what the Canaanite religion was like during the time [...]

Dr. Jeffrey S. Gurock, the Libby M. Klaperman Professor of Jewish History, has been elected a fellow of the American Academy for Jewish Research, the oldest professional organization of Judaica scholars in North America. Prof. Gurock joins a distinguished group of University faculty who are members of the academy, including former academy president and former [...]

Dr. Adam Newton, university professor of English, has been appointed as the Ronald P. Stanton Professor of Literature and Humanities retroactively effective as of Jan. 1, 2009. The appointment has been made in recognition of Dr. Newton’s outstanding contributions in both teaching and scholarship. Dr. Newton will deliver an inaugural lecture as the Stanton Professor [...]

  Dr. Richard Caputo (left), professor of social policy and research and director of the doctoral program at Wurzweiler School of Social Work, is working on a longitudinal study on the usage or take-up rate of the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC). “The EITC lifts a substantial number of people out of poverty, second only [...]

Dr. Jonathan Feldman, assistant professor at Ferkauf Graduate School of Psychology, is the co-recipient of a $2.5 million grant from the National Institute of Health’s National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine to study ethnic disparities in childhood asthma. The grant is shared with researchers at Arizona State University. Research will be conducted by Arizona [...]

Dr. Jonathan Fast Professor, Wurzweiler School of Social Work“Answers to Life’s Worries, in Three-Minute Bursts” The New York Times, Aug. 31, 2009 Dr. Victor SchwartzUniversity dean of students, Yeshiva University, and associate professor of clinical psychiatry and behavioral science, Albert Einstein College of Medicine“Study: 30 Percent Report Depression” The Daily Texan, Aug. 31, 2009 Rabbi [...]