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Dr. Ari Mermelstein’s Book on Power and Emotion

By On June 17, 2021 · Leave a Comment

Dr. Ari Mermelstein is associate professor of Bible and Second Temple Literature and chair of the Department of Bible, Hebrew, and Near Eastern Studies. He is also assistant director of the YU Center for Jewish Law and Contemporary Civilization and the Israeli Supreme Court Project, both located at the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law.

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Dr. Jess Olson Gives Readers a Quick Immersion Into Judaism

By On November 25, 2019 · Leave a Comment

Dr. Jess Olson, an associate professor of Jewish history at Yeshiva College, has published a book for Ediciones Tibidabo / Tibidabo Publications titled Jewish Culture: A Quick Immersion, one of a series of “quick immersions” that “uses accurate and straightforward language to offer a good introduction, or […]

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Schram Publishes Book of Jewish Love Stories

By On November 4, 2015 · Leave a Comment

Peninnah Schram, professor emerita of speech and drama at Yeshiva University’s Stern College for Women, has recently published Jewish Stories of Love and Marriage: Folktales, Legends and Letters (Rowman & Littlefield, September 2015). The book, which was co-authored by Sandy Eisenberg Sasso, brings together for the first time Jewish love stories from Biblical through modern […]

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