Six years ago, Rabbi Benjamin Blech, assistant professor of Bible, was informed that he was suffering from cardiac amyloidosis, a fatal and incurable disease.
The book he has written about this experience, Hope, Not Fear: Changing the Way We View Death, received a laudatory review in the New York Jewish Week by […]
Joy Ladin, director of the Beren Writing Center at Stern College for Women and David and Ruth Gottesman Professor of English, has been publishing and speaking extensively.
Brandeis University Press published her second book of creative non-fiction, The Soul of the Stranger: Reading God and Torah from a Transgender Perspective, which […]
Mark Finkel, clinical associate professor of entrepreneurship at Sy Syms School of Business, in “Why Uber Bought JUMP,” described why a small electric bike company decided to let a major transportation disrupter acquire it and explained how “a small company can disrupt a market and how a large company […]
Dr. Sharon Poczter, chair of the strategy and entrepreneurship department at Sy Syms School of Business, published a piece in Inc. titled “This Fundamental Problem Can Kill Your Startup–Here’s How to Avoid It.”
Dr. Poczter noted that “presented with the everyday existential challenges of a startup—from funding to […]
Dr. Joshua D. Zimmerman, professor of history and Eli and Diana Zborowski Professorial Chair in Holocaust Studies and East European Jewish History, presented a paper at “November Hopes: Jews and the Independence of Poland in 1918,” a conference organized by the Museum of the History of Polish Jews and the Institute of History of […]
Dr. S. Abraham Ravid, professor of finance and chair of the finance department at Sy Syms School of Business, was interviewed by Marketplace as part of a segment on the financial success of the 2018 Broadway season. (His interview begins at 1:25.)
Dr. Ravid noted that “if you own a Broadway […]
Dr. Cynthia Wachtell, research associate professor of American studies and director of the S. Daniel Abraham Honors Program at Stern College for Women, presented a paper at a conference, “Artistic Expressions and the Great War: A Hundred Years On,” organized by the Hofstra Cultural Center and Department of History and held […]
Dr. Irit Felsen, adjunct professor at Ferkauf Graduate School of Psychology, is co-chair of the Trauma Working Group in the NGO Committee on Mental Health. The NGO Committee works with the United Nations (UN), and its specialized agencies, “to ensure the inclusion of mental health issues within a […]
Rabbi Dr. Richard Hidary, associate professor of Judaic studies, reviewed Vered Noam’s Shifting Images of the Hasmoneans: Second Temple Legends and Their Reception in Josephus and Rabinnic Literature as part of a collaboration between the Jewish Book Council and Yeshiva University for Jewish Book Month. Dr. Hidari’s most […]
Daniel Pollack, professor at Wurzweiler School of Social Work, has authored two brief articles for Policy & Practice, the flagship publication of the American Public Human Services Association: “Children, Sports, and Sexual Predators: Ten Commandments for Parents to Follow” and “Sexting, Schools, and Law Enforcement: […]
