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Prof. Daniel Pollack Coauthors Article on Fitness to Parent

By On June 26, 2020 · Leave a Comment

Prof. Daniel Pollack, professor at Wurzweiler School of Social Work, has co-authored “Unfit to Parent: American and Jewish Legal Perspectives” for Touro Law Review with Michoel Zylberman (a rosh chabura at the Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary who also works with the Beth […]

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Dr. Aaron Koller’s Timely Essay on Genesis 22

By On June 24, 2020 · Leave a Comment

Dr. Aaron Koller’s new book, Unbinding Isaac, is a bold and timely essay on the Akedah [the binding of Issac]. Taking a tour through the vast trove of Jewish responses to this most famous of stories, the book argues that modern Jewish thought has been heavily and unfortunately influenced by the […]

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Dr. Shannon Lane Collaborates on a Study of Voter Engagement

By On June 23, 2020 · Leave a Comment

Dr. Shannon Lane, associate professor of social work at the Wurzweiler School of Social Work, collaborated with three other authors to publish “From the Empire State to the North Star State: Voter Engagement in the 2016 Election” in the Journal of Sociology and Social Welfare.

In the […]

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Dr. Mordechai Cohen Publishes New Book

By On June 23, 2020 · Leave a Comment

Dr. Mordechai Cohen, professor of Bible, associate dean of the Bernard Revel School of Jewish Studies and divisional coordinator of academic Jewish studies, has published a new book: The Rule of Peshat: Jewish Constructions of the Plain Sense of Scripture and Their Christian and Muslim Contexts, 900–1270 (

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Dr. Ran Drori Co-Authors a Study of Twisted Crystals

By On June 5, 2020 · Leave a Comment

Dr. Ran Drori, assistant professor in the department of chemistry and biochemistry, has co-authored “Crystals of benzamide, the first polymorphous molecular compound, are helicoidal” in Angewante Chemie (International Edition), a journal of the German Chemical Society.

Dr. Drori was part of an international team that published the paper about twisted […]

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