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Levine Delivers Lectures in Queens and Israel

By On September 10, 2013 · Leave a Comment

Dr. Michelle Levine, associate professor of bible at YU’s Stern College for Women, delivered several lectures this summer.

At the Sixteenth World Congress of Jewish Studies, held in Jerusalem from July 28-August 1, she presented a paper in Hebrew titled, “The Art and Meaning of Biblical Poetry in Nahmanides’ Biblical Commentary.”

Levine was […]

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University-School Partnership Experts Keynote Speakers at Shabbatons

By On January 29, 2013 · Leave a Comment

Dr. Scott J. Goldberg, director of Yeshiva University’s Institute for University-School Partnership, and Rabbi Maccabee Avishur, associate director for teaching and learning at the University-School Partnership, will keynote two Shabbatons at the Kemp Mill Synagogue and Beth Sholom, respectively, on February 1-2.

Goldberg will discuss the most pressing issues in Jewish education facing […]

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Pelcovitz Leads Positive Jewish Parenting Session at West Side Institutional Synagogue

By On January 29, 2013 · Leave a Comment

Dr. David Pelcovitz, Gwendolyn and Joseph Straus Chair in Psychology and Jewish Education at YU, will lead a Positive Jewish Parenting program organized by the West Side Institutional Synagogue and the Orthodox Union on February 18. The program, titled “How to Speak to Your Children about Difficult Topics,” will feature two sessions, “National Tragedies […]

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Book in Schram’s Honor Selected as Finalist for Jewish Book Council Award

By On January 23, 2013 · Leave a Comment

A book published in honor of Peninnah Schram, professor of speech at Stern College for Women, has been selected as a finalist for a 2012 National Jewish Book Award by the Jewish Book Council.

The book, Mitzvah Stories: Seeds for Inspiration and Learning, is one of three finalists in the Education and Jewish Identity […]

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Levine Publishes Article in Business Ethics Handbook

By On January 10, 2013 · Leave a Comment

An article by Dr. Aaron Levine a”h, the late Samson and Halina Bitensky Professor of Economics at Yeshiva University, will appear in the 2013 Springer Handbook of the Philosophical Foundations of Business Ethics. His article, “Imitatio Dei and Jewish Business Ethics,” is one of more than 78 contributions by notable philosophers and economists […]

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Shires Publishes Essays on Color Theory and Thomas Hardy

By On January 9, 2013 · Leave a Comment

Dr. Linda M. Shires, David and Ruth Gottesman Professor and Chair of the English Department at Stern College for Women, recently published essays on color theory and on Thomas Hardy. “On Color Theory, 1835: George Field’s Chromatography,” published in BRANCH: Britain, Representation and Nineteenth-Century History (web), examines a seminal book’s importance to a material […]

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Grunhaus Publishes Book on Radak

By On January 8, 2013 · Leave a Comment

Dr. Naomi Grunhaus, associate professor of Bible at Stern College for Women, recently published a book about medieval Jewish commentator Rabbi David Kimhi, known as the Radak. Titled Challenge of Received Tradition: Dilemmas of Interpretation in Radak’s Biblical Commentaries (Oxford University Press, November 2012), the book confronts one of the most vexing problems facing […]

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