Wurzweiler student Andrew Chelser received a $500.00 award from the New York State Society of Clinical Social Work. He was joined by Wurzweiler Professor and Vice Chair, Social Work Hospice & Palliative Care Network, Dr. Gary Stein. Dr. Gary Stein and award recipient Andrew Chelser (L to R)
Revel Professor Steven Fine and his undergraduate Ancient Jewish History class featured in The Jewish Week this past Tuesday, after an exciting semester of tombstone deciphering and cross-country friendship. An article by Fine, "Tales From Tombstones," caught the eye of Californian Pastor Carl ...
Nehama Leibowitz, one of the most influential Tanakh teachers of the 20 th century, will be the focus of the inaugural event of Revel鈥檚 special lecture series this year. The evening program, 鈥淣ehama Leibowitz and Tanakh Study: Yesterday and Today,鈥 will take place on Tuesday, October 22. It will ...
Dr. Daniel Tsadik, Assistant Professor of Iranian and Sephardic Studies at Revel, has presented a paper at an interdisciplinary conference sponsored by the Yale Program for the Study of Antisemitism. The topic of this international conference which was held on October 4, 2013 at Yale University was鈥
Revel congratulates Shai Secunda on his recently published book, The Iranian Talmud: Reading the Bavli In Its Sasanian Context (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2013). Secunda earned his Revel PhD in Talmud in 2008, completing his dissertation: 鈥淒ashtana鈥擪e-Derekh Nashim Li: A Study鈥
He鈥檚 been published in the New York Observer, VentureBeat, and Forbes. Business Insider named him one of the 鈥淭op 20 Under 25鈥 in the New York-area technology scene. And he works with early-stage companies and startups, advising them on best practices. Alex Taub, a 2009 Yeshiva College graduate ...
Dr. Archishman Chakraborty, a new appointment at Sy Syms, is the Mel Harris Chair in Financial Risk and Insurance. He earned a PhD in economics from Princeton University, and previously taught at York University and Baruch College鈥檚 Zicklin School of Business. 1. What did you do before you joined鈥
Over a century ago, news of the discovery of the Cairo Genizah in Egypt rocked the world of Jewish Studies. Scholars made pilgrimages to Cairo to study and gather the fragile fragments. Today students of the Genizah are able to sit comfortably at computers and virtually weave together document ...
In an article just published in the Jewish Studies Internet Journal, Revel Professor Richard C. Steiner proposes a new solution to a blatant internal contradiction within Kol Nidre going back to the time of Rabbenu Tam and his father, R. Samuel of Ramerupt. The article entitled Kol Nidre: Past ...
In the most recent issue of the journal Hakirah, Heshy Zelcer, who is on the editorial board, published an article entitled 鈥淪hemoneh Esreh in Eretz Yisrael ca. 220-250 C.E.鈥 He sent a copy of the journal to Prof. Elazar Hurvitz, who had not known about the project, because of the dedication, which鈥