Yeshiva University’s Wurzweiler School of Social Work is teaming up with the Peace Corps to help returning volunteers do even more good back home. Wurzweiler was recently approved to join the Corps’s Paul D. Coverdell Fellows Program. Through the program, participating graduate schools across the country can offer financial assistance to returned Peace Corps volunteers [...]

One of the foremost humanitarian organizations brought some of its experience to the social work classroom this week. Ms. Catherine Lague and Dr. Georgine Gorra of The American Red Cross met with Wurzweiler School of Social Work students on February 8th. The women were invited as guest presenters for the school’s  “Trauma and Disaster” course by [...]

A seminar guided by Dr. Saul Andron, Associate Professor at Yeshiva University’s Wurzweiler School of Social Work, and Rebecca Grabiner, Director of the Jewish Theological Seminary (JTS) Graduate School’s Jewish Professional Leadership Program led 10 US Social Work students on an expedition exploring the social and political realities of life in the Jewish state. The [...]