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ºÚÁÏÉç All and the Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary (RIETS) celebrates Rabbi Aryeh Lebowitz’s return to the University as director of the semicha [rabbinic ordination] program at RIETS. Rabbi Lebowitz spoke with YU News about coming back to a place he calls home. What will be your…

Dr. William Salton, adjunct assistant professor of psychology at Ferkauf Graduate School of Psychology and clinical director of the Max and Celia Parnes Family Psychological and Psychoeducational Services Clinic, announced that the Parnes Clinic has received the first-ever Clinic Innovations Award…

YC Computer Students Work with AdaCore and SPARK On Friday, February 15, 2019, students in the Yeshiva College computer science program met with engineers from AdaCore, a global company that helps clients build high-integrity software. The workshop centered on SPARK Ada, a programming language that…

For decades now, a book has stopped being an object contained in pages between two covers carried in a reader’s hands and become a part of the digital universe that surrounds us. In The Future of the Book, 13 writers, including 12 ºÚÁÏÉç All faculty members, take on the challenge of ...

Paul Glassman Director of University Libraries At an annual conference for academic librarians at Rutgers University, James G. Neal, then Vice President for Information Services and University Librarian at Columbia University, spoke on “The Imperfect Storm: The Prospects for Systemic Change Across…

Dr. Karen Shawn Associate Professor of Jewish Education and Administration; Founding Editor, PRISM: An Interdisciplinary Journal for Holocaust Educators Holocaust literature will continue to serve as a central repository of trauma and memory for the generations who seek to learn the essentials of…

Dr. Cynthia Wachtell Director of the S. Daniel Abraham Honors Program and Research Associate Professor of American Studies When I think of the future of the book, I think of the past of the book. In particular, I think of one special book: The Backwash of War, by Ellen N. La Motte. I have been ...

Dr. Lisa Chalik Assistant Professor of Psychology We think a lot about how to communicate positive values to our children. We model good behaviors. We reward prosocial actions. We read stories based around positive morals. The list goes on. All of this is to say that we try to cram as much moral ...

Dr. Tamar Avnet Professor of Marketing and Chair of the Marketing Department, Sy Syms School of Business In order to answer this question, one first needs to understand what value a book brings to its readers. In marketing, we differentiate between a product’s features and the value or benefits ...

Dr. Jeffrey Freedman Professor of History Predictions of the book’s imminent death are nothing new. From the advent of mass circulation daily newspapers in the 19th century to the spread of movies, radio and television in the 20th, the prophets of cultural doom have repeatedly declared the book to…