The 31st edition of the Journal of Jewish Music and Liturgy, edited by Cantor Bernard Beer, director of Yeshiva University’s Philip and Sarah Belz School of Jewish Music, was recently published in conjunction with the Cantorial Council of America (CCA). Beer succeeded longtime editor and cantor Macy Nulman, a former director of the school and […]

An article by Stern College for Women biology faculty Dr. Harvey Babich, Dr. Harriet L. Zuckerbraun, Dr. Alyssa G. Schuck and Dr. Jeffrey H. Weisburg appears in the first edition of Tea in Health and Disease Prevention (Elsevier/Academic Press 2013), edited by Victor R. Preedy. The article is titled, “In Vitro Studies on the Responses […]

Rabbi Dr. Jacob J. Schacter, University Professor of Jewish History and Jewish Thought at Yeshiva University, will be Scholar-in-Residence at the Young Israel of Kew Garden Hills on November 16-17, 2012.  Over the course of the weekend, he will deliver three lectures, titled: “Did Moshe Rabbeinu Know Everything?,” “Printing and the Unfolding […]

Rabbi J. David Bleich, the Herbert and Florence Tenzer Chair in Jewish Law and Ethics at Yeshiva University, recently delivered two lectures on family law and human life at conferences in Chicago and Doha, Qatar.

The first, “Duties vs. Rights: Differing Models of Family Law,” was given at the Symposium on the Jurisprudence […]

A new book by Hugh Sheehy, lecturer-in-writing at Yeshiva University’s Yeshiva College and Stern College, has been named a Flannery O’Conner Award for Short Fiction winner. The award is an important proving ground for writers and a showcase for the talent and promise that have brought about a resurgence in the short story as […]