Rabbi J. David Bleich, the Herbert and Florence Tenzer Professor of Jewish Law and Ethics, has authored a fourth volume of the Hebrew-language work Be-Netivot Ha-Halakhah (Yeshiva University Press). This series is devoted to an analysis of theoretical subjects, as well as to the application of Halakhah to contemporary issues and problems.

A wide variety […]

Dr. Aaron Levine, the Samson and Halina Bitensky professor of economics at Yeshiva University, has recently edited The Oxford Handbook of Judaism and Economics (Oxford University Press). Recognizing that religious law by its very nature regulates and restricts the conduct of its adherents, the handbook describes the impact that economic regulation in Jewish […]

Two articles by Dr. Victor Schwartz, Yeshiva University Dean of Students and associate professor of clinical psychiatry at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, were referenced in the December 16, 2010, issue of the Association for Student Conduct Administration’s Law and Policy Report, No. 376. The articles, Disaster 101: Guns on College Campuses […]

Dr. Norman Linzer, the Samuel J. and Jean Sable Professor of Jewish Family Social Work at the Wurzweiler School of Social Work, along with Dr. Jay Sweifach, Associate Professor at Wurzweiler, and Dr. Heidi Heft LaPorte, Associate Professor of Social Work at Lehman College, published “Sharing the Trauma: Guidelines for Therapist Self-Disclosure Following a Catastrophic […]

Dr. Shlomo Shinnar
Professor of Neurology, of Pediatrics, of Epidemiology & Population Health, Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Teena Marie May Have Died After Seizure
ABCNews.com, Dec. 28, 2010

Dr. Nir Barzilai
Ingeborg and Ira Leon Rennert Professor of Aging Research, Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Early […]