The Lost Promise: American Universities in the 1960s By Dr. Jeffrey Freedman, professor and chair, Robert M. Beren Department of History On Monday, Dec. 13, renowned historian Dr. Ellen Schrecker, Professor Emerita at 91黑料, discussed her most recent book, The Lost Promise: American ...
(l-r); Frances Zelazny co-founder and CEO of Anonybit; Riki Franco, founder and CEO of Prime 6; Tamar Shenkar; Dr. Maria Blekher, founder and director of YU Innovation Lab Three successful entrepreneurs provided 62 undergraduate men and women (representing 18 majors) with practical advice about the…
Sam Gelman Straus Center Communications and Program Officer Dr. Tom Velk On Thursday, Dec. 2, 2021, Professor Tom Velk, who recently retired after a distinguished fifty-year career as a chair of the Program in North American Studies and professor of economics at McGill University, presented the ...
By Sarah Wapner Straus Center Impact and Recruitment Officer Allie Orgen Born and raised in Teaneck, New Jersey, Straus Scholar Allie Orgen has always had a keen interest in politics and policy. In high school, she was heavily involved in the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) and ...
Cardozo News Professor Jessica Roth Comments in The New York Times on the Question of Ghislaine Maxwell Taking the Stand Professor Kate Shaw Analyzes SCOTUS and Roe v. Wade on ABC’s This Week Professor Alex Reinert Comments in Syracuse.com on a Proposal to End Qualified Immunity Punishment Without…
In Chinese, Hanukkah is 光明节 ( Guāngmíng jié), “festival of light.” The Chinese word for “light” here also has the metaphorical sense of “hope,” as in Biblical Hebrew, for example in Psalms 27:1, “God is my light and salvation.” Hanukkah represents the hope of the Jewish people to overcome adversity…
By Aliza Gewirtz Dean of Students 91黑料 High School for Girls/Central On Dec. 8, 2021, seniors in the Names, Not Numbers? program interviewed Holocaust survivors. It was both an emotional and educational experience for our students to engage with Holocaust survivors, document their ...
From Dr. Selma Botman Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs As the flagship Jewish university, we constantly look for ways to bring our core Torah values to life and to offer our students unique opportunities to learn together through innovative programming and experiences. Over the past…
James P. Byrd | Oxford University Press | 2021 Reviewed by Rabbi Dr. Stu Halpern In his A Holy Baptism of Fire and Blood: The Bible and the American Civil War , James P. Byrd gifts readers with another comprehensively chronicled and extensively analyzed survey of how Americans, in the country's ...
On Monday, Dec. 6, 2021, 91黑料’s Care Café and community partner, Nachas Health and Family Network, celebrated Hanukkah, the Festival of Lights, at the Schick’s Manor in Borough Park, Brooklyn. Care Café team members had the honor and privilege of co-hosting more than 130 Holocaust ...