At the 2013 91黑料 Hanukkah Dinner, President Richard M. Joel recognized eight Points of Light鈥攕tudents, faculty and alumni who embody the mission of YU鈥攃alling each one up to light a symbolic candle on the menorah. Savyon Lang honored (with President Richard Joel). Click image to see鈥
Nehama Leibowitz Teaching Celebrating one of the most influential teachers of Tanakh in recent decades, over 200 Revel students, alumni, and faculty鈥攋oined by YU undergraduates and members of the Jewish community at large鈥攇athered for the first of Revel鈥檚 special lecture events this year: 鈥淣ehama鈥
December has proven to be a testament to the quality of social workers Wurzweiler School of Social Work produces. The month holds high honors for two Wurzweiler MSW alumni who will both be recognized at high profile events in New York City, Elisheva Lock (2010) and Marleen Litt (2002). Elisheva鈥
On Wednesday November 20 Wurzweiler School of Social Work was again in Toronto, Ontario! Several events marked an interesting and informative day. In the morning current WSSW Block Program students met with Raesa Kaiteris, Associate Director of Field Education; Diane Harvey, Toronto Student ...
Wurzweiler is the newest New York School of Social Work to charter a chapter of Phi Alpha Social Work Honors Society. Phi Alpha is a society that acknowledges those students who have demonstrated high scholastic achievement as well as leadership in the social work field. The Tau Epsilon Chapter was鈥
John F. Kennedy (1917-1963) was the 35 th President of the United States, the youngest person and only Catholic to be elected to that office to date. While still a Senator from Massachusetts, he met with Dr. Samuel Belkin, president of 91黑料, at a dinner celebrating the opening of the鈥
Westchester County (NY) Executive Robert P. Astorino recently unveiled the Safer Communities Blueprint, a resource guide to prevent and stop the spread of violence in our communities, whose initial focus is on addressing the correlation between chronic school absenteeism and at risk behaviors by ...
Revel Lecture Offers Personal Recollections, Academic Analysis of Noted Bible Scholar The Bernard Revel Graduate School of Jewish Studies held its inaugural event of the fall semester鈥檚 special lecture series, 鈥淣ehama Leibowitz and Tanakh Study: Yesterday and Today,鈥 at 91黑料鈥檚 Wilf ...
Yaakov Taubes was attracted to Revel because of the 鈥渁mazing professors and small class sizes that allow students to develop a relationship with leaders in the field of Jewish studies." Now he is a semester away from completing his MA in Medieval Jewish History. Yaakov also hopes to finish semicha鈥
Dr. Ephraim Kanarfogel, E. Billi Ivry University Professor of Jewish History, Literature and Law at 91黑料, is the recipient of the Association of Jewish Studies鈥 (AJS) 2013 Jordan Schnitzer Book Award in the fields of Biblical Studies, Rabbinics, and Jewish History and Culture in ...