From “The Jewish Week”, May 22, 2012 Roman Shmulenson, 34 Part of a Ukrainian-Jewish family that came to the U.S. in 1993, Roman Shmulenson made his first meaningful contact with the Jewish community while studying at a Brooklyn high school the next year. A social worker from the Jewish Board of Family and Children’s Services [...]

Wurzweiler School of Social Work concluded its fifty-third annual Diploma and Hooding Ceremony today, sending nearly sixty new MSW and PhD graduates into the world of social work to continue making a difference. The commencement speaker was Dr. William L. Pollard, MSW, PhD, president of Medgar Evers College of The City University of New York. [...]

From the Wall Street Journal, May 8, 2012 When Froma Benerofe went back to college later in life to become a social worker, she did so with the same motivation of a person decades younger: She wanted to help people heal. That motivation, drawn in part from the Jewish concept of tikkun olam, or to [...]