Some women are known for their style, others for their business acumen. And for some, fashion and business merge as they have for Bari Weizman 鈥08SB, 鈥12SB the president and publisher of Hadar Magazine. Weizman grew up in Wesley Hills, NY, always knowing she would attend Stern College for Women, as鈥
This month, 80 YU students will embark on service missions to Ukraine, Southern Israel, and several American cities including Cleveland, Columbus, Toledo and Detroit as participants in the Center for the Jewish Future鈥檚 (CJF) winter missions. The missions, designed to offer students the opportunity鈥
In 2007, after 20 years at Yeshiva College as an adjunct instructor of English as a Second Language, Professor Norma Silbermintz became the full-time Coordinator of Academic Affairs for International Students at YC. 1) What did you do before you joined YU as a faculty member? I taught high school鈥
The Judaica Sound Archives at Florida Atlantic University is a collection of digitized Judaica sound recordings found on tapes, CDs and phonograph records. The Archives鈥 collections include recordings in Yiddish, English and Hebrew as well as several other Judaic languages such as Ladino. The ...
Revel student Aliza Storchan plans to finish the coursework for her MA in Bible in June, and then take the comprehensive exam in September. At this point, Aliza explains, she has 鈥渇allen in love with the Revel community.鈥 Aliza came to Revel after earning an undergraduate degree at the University鈥
On December 16, Dr. Lawrence Schiffman's Revel class on "The Bar Kokhba Revolt & the Judean Desert Documents" was treated to a guest lecture by David Hendin, a curator at the American Numismatic Society and an expert in ancient Jewish and biblical coins. Hendin is the author of Guide to鈥
All the world鈥檚 a stage, they say, and for some, what goes on behind the curtains is where you can find the real action. For Aaron Roller 鈥06YC, the Director of Special Projects at the NYC Office of Citywide Purchasing and former Senior Policy Advisor at the NYC Mayor鈥檚 Office of Operations ...
The unique story of Dr. Steven Fine's undergraduate Ancient Jewish History class and its semester-long quest to decipher a 5th-century, Aramaic-language, Jewish woman's tombstone featured in The New York Times last week. The project involved close correspondence with Californian Pastor Carl Morgan鈥
Dr. Jeffrey S. Gurock's book, Jews in Gotham: New York Jews in a Changing City, 1920-2010 (NYU Press, 2012), featured in the New York Times Sunday Book Review in November. The book, as the NYT wrote, "covers the wax and wane of immigration, segregation, suburban flight, anti-Semitism, socialist ...
The Greenwich Times and other Connecticut papers in the syndicate recently published an article by Dr. Jonathan Fast, who is an expert on the subject of shame and bullying and the author of the book "Ceremonial Violence," which provides an analysis of a dozen school shootings. Below is an excerpt鈥