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Blech to Publish Book Exploring End-Of-Life Issues

By On June 7, 2018 · Leave a Comment

Rabbi Benjamin Blech, professor of Talmud, will publish a new book, Hope, Not Fear: Changing the Way We View Death, which explores the question of how to approach the end of one’s life.

The prompt for the book came from a diagnosis Rabbi Blech received that he had a fatal illness which gave him […]

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Zimmerman’s Book Translated into Polish

By On October 30, 2017 · Leave a Comment

Dr. Joshua Zimmerman, Eli and Diana Zborowski Professorial Chair in Holocaust Studies and East European Jewish History and professor of history, has had his most recent work, The Polish Underground and the Jews, 1939–1945, translated into Polish by PWN Publishing House.

The Polish Underground and the […]

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Yudin Publishes Self-Growth Guide

By On August 17, 2017 · Leave a Comment

Rabbi Benjamin Yudin, a professor of Bible in the the James Striar School of General Jewish Studies, recently published Gateways to Greatness through Mosaica Press. Rabbi Yudin has been Rav of Congregation Shomrei Torah in Fair Lawn, New Jersey, since 1969, and has taught at Yeshiva University for decades. He is perhaps […]

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Fine Presents Book to Rabin Center

By On February 27, 2017 · Leave a Comment

Dr. Steven Fine, Dean Pinkhos Churgin Professor of Jewish History and director of the Center for Israel Studies at Yeshiva University, presented a copy of his book, The Menorah: From the Bible to Modern Israel (Harvard University Press 2016) to Dalia Rabin-Pelossof at an event at the Rabin Center. Fine dedicated the book to Rabin-Pelossof’s father, former Israeli […]

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Gurock Publishes Collection of Essays

By On February 22, 2017 · Leave a Comment

Dr. Jeffrey Gurock, Libby M. Klaperman Professor of Jewish History, has just published Constant Challenge: Sports and American Judaism (Michael Scharf Publication Trust of Yeshiva University Press and The Toby Press).

The book collects nine essays that examine the challenges of sports to American Judaism and the varied responses of the American community toward […]

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Fine’s Book Reprinted

By On November 29, 2016 · Leave a Comment

Dr. Steven Fine, Dean Pinkhos Churgin Professor of Jewish History and director of the Center for Israel Studies, has had his 1997 book, This Holy Place: On the Sanctity of the Synagogue During the Greco-Roman Period, republished by Wipf and Stock Publishers, located in Oregon.

The reprint includes a new postscript, which describes the […]

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Shatz Featured in Library of Contemporary Jewish Philosophers Series

By On October 10, 2016 · Leave a Comment

The writings and career of Dr. David Shatz, Ronald P. Stanton University Professor of Philosophy, Ethics and Religious Thought and chair of the philosophy department at Stern College for Women, are the subject of a new volume in Brill’s Library of Contemporary Jewish Philosophers Series. Titled David Shatz: Torah, Philosophy and Culture, the book features an extensive interview […]

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Shmalo Publishes Spiritual Guide to Gap Year in Israel

By On September 1, 2016 · Leave a Comment

Rabbi Gamliel Shmalo, an adjunct instructor in Jewish Philosophy at Stern College for Women, recently published Learning to Grow: A Spiritual Guide to Your Year in Israel (Kodesh Press). The book, according to Shmalo, “serves as a spiritual and intellectual guide to the big themes and even bigger […]

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Hajioff Publishes Guide to Dating, Relationships, Love and Marriage

By On September 1, 2016 · Leave a Comment

Rabbi Lawrence Hajioff, instructor in Jewish studies at Stern College for Women, recently published his second book, titled Will Jew Marry Me?: A Guide to Dating, Relationships, Love and Marriage.

“In this book,” Hajioff explained, “I have collected my thoughts, ideas, experiences and stories from my many years […]

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Lavinsky to Publish Book on John Wyclif

By On September 1, 2016 · Leave a Comment

Dr. David Lavinsky, assistant professor in the English department, will publish a new book, Inscription and Sacred Truth: the Material Text in Wycliffite Biblical Scholarship, with Boydell & Brewer this fall. In the book, Lavinsky examines the extraordinary assortment of commentaries and translations that comprise the universe of scholarship surrounding Oxford theologian and philosopher John Wyclif, with a particular […]

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