Alexander Kushnir, adjunct professor of Biology at Yeshiva College, successfully defended his Columbia University Phd. thesis entitled “Phosphorylation of the ryanodine receptor in the cardiac response to acute stress and heart failure.” Dr. Kushnir’s thesis work focuses on two novel molecular pathways which explain how the heart beats stronger when we exercise and how dysfunction [...]

Ephraim Kanarfogel, the E. Billi Ivry Professor of Jewish History at the Bernard Revel Graduate School of Jewish Studies and at Stern College for Women, has been named a co-chair of the academic advisory committee of the Foundation for Jewish Culture, along with Prof. David Myers of UCLA. The co-chairs oversee the evaluation process for the [...]

Dr. Linda M. Shires, professor and chair of English at Stern College, gave one of three invited workshops at the annual three day international conference of the North American Victorian Studies Association on November 11th in Montreal. Her presentation, “Interart Analysis and the Question of Hardy’s Poetry” focused on two kinds of interart comparisons in [...]

The American Committee for the Shaare Zedek Medical Center in Jerusalem will present its Marbitz Torah Award to Rabbi Dr. Manfred Fulda, chair of the division of Jewish studies and associate professor of talmud at Yeshiva University, at a national dinner on Tuesday, November 30, 2010, at Pier 60 on Manhattan’s upper west side. Rabbi [...]

Chazzan (Cantor) Sherwood Goffin, professor of cantorial training at YU’s Belz School of Jewish Music, has recorded a new mp3 titled “Favorite Synagogue Nigunim”, which presents the complete guide for the congregational melodies of the Shalosh Regalim [Three Jewish Festival]. The recording  provides multiple versions of appropriate, effective classical and contemporary niggunim [tunes] for the [...]

Dr. Eliezer Schnall, professor of psychology at Yeshiva College, lectured at the annual conference of the Society for the Scientific Study of Religion on Sunday, October 31, 2010 in Baltimore, MD. His presentation, “Psychological and Social Characteristics Associated with Religiosity: The Women’s Health Initiative,” focused on the relationship between religious service attendance and various psychosocial [...]

Dr. Shmuel Schneider, former chair of the Department of Hebrew language and literature at Yeshiva College, has published a new book titled Existence and Memory in the Writings of Aharon Appelfeld, Yosef Chaim Brenner and Other Writings (Carmel, 2010). The anthology is a collection of essays, book reviews and interviews, and deals with one of [...]

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