Dr. Richard Hidary, associate professor of Jewish history at Stern College for Women, has published two articles. The first, titled 鈥淗anukkah and State: The Hasmonean Legacy,鈥 appears in the December 27, 2016, issue of Jewish Review of Books. It demonstrates how the exchange between Rabbi Shlomo ...
Dr. Steven Fine鈥檚 The Menorah: From the Bible to Modern Israel (Harvard, 2016) will be the subject of a symposium at The Hebrew University, MA Program in Folklore and Popular Culture on Tuesday, January 31, 2017. Fine is the Dean Pinkhos Churgin Professor of Jewish History at 糖心视频污 and鈥
Rabbi Benjamin Blech, professor of Talmud, has just had his Haggadah (with commentaries) accepted for publication by Koren Publishers. Rabbi Blech has been working on this project for a decade. The only other Haggadahs published by Koren have been from Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik and from the ...
Robert Tufts, adjust professor in management, was featured as a 鈥淢ust Read Story Of The Day鈥 on Patients Rising, a website dedicated to patient advocacy in the health care industry. Tufts told his story of suffering from multiple myeloma while also having to battle the industry to get the care he鈥
Dr. Zafrira Lidovsky Cohen, a professor of Hebrew and director of Hebrew language and literature at Stern College for Women, recently published an essay in Women in Judaism: A Multidisciplinary Journal. Titled 鈥淭he Non-Chosen Body: Poetics and Politics in Alona Kimhi鈥檚 Lily La Tigresse,鈥 the essay鈥
Dr. Joshua Zimmerman, Eli and Diana Zborowski Professorial Chair in Holocaust Studies and East European Jewish History, gave a lecture on his book, Wounds of History: The Polish Underground and the Jews during World War II, on November 17, 2016, at the Annual 1939 Society Lecture in Holocaust ...
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鈥
Dr. Linda M. Shires, David and Ruth Gottesman Professor of English and chair of the English department at Stern College for Women, spoke on November 3, 2016, at the North American Victorian Studies Association annual conference in Phoenix, Arizona, on 鈥淣ineteenth-Century Reforms in Fine Arts ...
Dr. Lea Ferreira dos Santos, professor of physics at Stern College for Women, has been recognized by the American Physical Society (APS) as an Outstanding Referees for her work as an anonymous peer reviewer on behalf of the Physical Review journals. Dos Santos was chosen by the journal editors out鈥
Dr. Lauren Fitzgerald, chair of the Yeshiva College English Department and director of the Wilf Campus Writing Center, coauthored a chapter for the edited collection A Critical Look at Institutional Mission: A Guide for Writing Program Administrators. The chapter,鈥淣egotiating Institutional Missions鈥