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Blech’s New Book is Reviewed

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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 […]

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Ladin Publishes and Lectures Extensively

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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 […]

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Finkel Writes About How Ebikes Disrupt the Marketplace

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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 […]

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Poczter Promotes the Virtues of Organizational Design

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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 […]

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Zimmerman Presents Paper at Conference

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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 […]

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Ravid on Broadway Ticket Prices

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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 […]

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