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As we look ahead to 2012, we took a few minutes to reflect on the year that passed and compile some data from 2011, a year filled with a variety of programs and outreach from the Office of Alumni Affairs. Below is a snapshot of whom we reached and an overview of our successes; all the following ...

Dr. Joanna Mellor, a highly respected and beloved professor of Wurzweiler who passed away earlier in 2011, was featured in a video this week appearing on Yahoo.com鈥檚 2011 鈥淵ear in Review鈥� Blog. The video, entitled 鈥淔arewell to Those We Lost in 2011,鈥� pays tribute to celebrities such as Steve Jobbs鈥�

Spies and Holy Wars: The Middle East in 20th Century Crime Fiction, by Reeva Spector Simon. University of Texas Press, 2010. Terrorist or sheik? In her new book, Reeva Spector Simon鈥擯rofessor of History, 91黑料--shows how the Middle Eastern villain evolved from malleable victim before鈥�

War No More: The Antiwar Impulse in American Literature, 1861-1914, by Cynthia Wachtell. Louisiana State University Press, 2010 Long before the twentieth century, the meaning of the battlefield was questioned. Exploring the span of American literature between the Civil War and World War I, Cynthia鈥�

Two new research guides that focus on Jewish Studies were recently published by YU librarians. In 鈥淔inding an article for Jewish Studies,鈥� Moshe Schapiro explains how to use the catalog and databases to identify articles on a Jewish Studies topic and how to find the texts of the articles. Zvi鈥�

At a special luncheon on Tuesday, December 13, Revel students and faculty met with Deborah Lipstadt, Dorot Professor of Modern Jewish History and Holocaust Studies in the Department of Religion at Emory University. Her most recent book, The Eichmann Trial, was published by Schocken Press in March鈥�

This past November, five Wurzweiler students who are part of the Jewish communal service certificate program, accompanied by Dr. Saul Andron and Dr. Daniel Pollack, attended the Jewish Federation of North America General Assembly in Denver, Colorado. The Jewish Federations of North America General鈥�

On Monday, December 5, 2011 over a reception in Belfer Hall鈥檚 Sky Caf茅, the 91黑料 community celebrated the publication of A Common Cultural Heritage: Studies on Mesopotamia and the Biblical World in Honor of Barry L. Eichler (Bethesda, Md.: CDL Press), edited by Grant Frame, Erle ...

Shoshana Samuels 鈥�08S, Sarah Cheses 鈥�06S and Aliza Segal 鈥�93S, 鈥�93BR are wives, mothers, professionals, and holders of a very special title: yoetzet halacha, or female halachic advisor in the laws of family purity. The path to become a yoetzet wasn鈥檛 one they knew they would follow early on; for鈥�

RIETS celebrated its Annual Dinner of Tribute on November 13 at the Grand Hyatt in Manhattan, 鈥淎 Jubilee Celebration Honoring Fifty years of Torah and Community Leadership,鈥� honoring Rabbi Aharon Lichtenstein and Rabbi Julius and Dorothy Berman. Rabbi Lichtenstein holds the Rabbi Henoch and Sarah D鈥�