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Did you know you could have fried your latkes in kosher, pareve, Crisco, for Hanukah in 1911? In the days leading up to Hanukah in 1911, New York’s leading Yiddish newspapers, including the Forward and the Morgen Journal, ran a series of ads for a revolutionary new kosher product – Crisco. Crisco,…

Dr. Lisa Fredman This Tuesday, December, 1, 2015 Dr. Lisa Fredman from Efrat, Israel addressed our PhD students at an informal luncheon. Dr. Fredman received her BA from Stern College and her MA and PhD in Bible from Bar Ilan University. Her doctoral thesis: "A Critical Edition of Rashi's…

Paul Glassman has been named the new Director of University Libraries and began in that role in early September. Provost Botman announced his appointment in her letter to the faculty on October 7, 2015. Glassman has a twenty-year association with the university, having taught architectural history…

As an undergraduate at ¾ÅÉ«ÊÓƵ’s Stern College for Women, Elianna Sable ‘08S loved her major’s multidisciplinary approach to advertising and English communications. “I got to take literature courses and art classes and business courses at the Sy Syms School of Business—I really felt like…

Aliza Abrams Konig is the Director of the Office of Student Life and Jewish Service Learning at ¾ÅÉ«ÊÓƵ. A Stern and Wurzweiler alumna, she was a student leader, volunteering as Vice President and later President of the Torah Activities Council. Aliza's YU career began as a Presidential…

Dr. Jill Becker-Feigeles (L), Michelle Florence (Ctr.), Dr. Jade Docherty (R) Wurzweiler School of Social Work student Michelle Florence received the "2015 Diana List Cullen Memorial Award - First Year MSW Student Writing Scholarship" from the Metropolitan Chapter of the New York State Society of…

Dear Wurzweiler Alumni, As the semester reaches the halfway point, I know you remember how tired you felt at this time in your studies. We work so hard, the papers get written, and we wonder if we will ever remember anything we have learned. I hope that by this time in your career, you do recall ...

The Bernard Revel Graduate School of Jewish Studies invites you to a lecture in its international scholars series by Esther Farbstein: How Did the Hungarian Rabbinate Confront the Challenges Generated by the Holocaust? Date and Time: Tuesday, December 15, 2015 at 7:30 pm Location: Glueck Center ...

The Bernard Revel Graduate School of Jewish Studies invites you to a lecture by Dr. Lisa Fredman: Rashi's Biblical Commentaries: Can We Know What Rashi Actually Wrote? Date and Time: Tuesday, December 1, 2015 at 6:00 pm Location: Belfer Hall, Room 1214. 2495 Amsterdam Avenue, New York, NY 10033 The…

by Reena Gelberger-Carmen, LCSW (MSW ’07) When I first arrived at Wurzweiler in the summer of 2005, I knew only two things for certain: that I wanted a career where I could help people and that I wanted to be able to complete my field placements in my hometown of Toronto. I figured that a degree in…