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Stern Physics Professor Receives $900K US Dept. of Energy Grant A New Year Begins at YU “The grant will provide the resources to train a new gen- A Message From the President eration of scientists who will become leaders of their re- Welcome to a new year and a new beginning at search teams,” said Dr. Frenkel. Yeshiva University. The grant will fund summer While the world and society confront us with research internship positions much confusion and tension, we know that what we for two YU undergraduates and achieve here together can bring hope from dismay, two at the University of Dela- light out of the darkness, and wisdom to life. We wel- ware. All four students will come you to an environment of inspiration and aspi- spend the summer at Brook- ration, deep belief, knowledge, and values. Here you haven and will be in charge of will find an academic community deeply committed research support of visiting to learning from our past and charting our future. research groups. Each student I look forward to traveling with you on a joyous will receive a $5,000 grant for journey. he US Department of and the University of Dela- three months. Energy awarded a ware and spent on upgrading “This grant will afford the $900,000 grant to Brookhaven’s existing facili- students an unparalleled op- Anatoly Frenkel, PhD, ties and building new ones. portunity and will, undoubt- Tassociate professor of physics Dr. Frenkel will oversee the edly, influence their career at Stern College for Women, research and education activi- decisions,” said Dr. Frenkel. President Richard M. Joel and his colleagues at Univer- ties of the consortium jointly The study will examine the sity of Delaware and Brook- with the other principal in- mechanism of catalysis, a pro- haven National Laboratory. vestigators, Prof. J. Chen of the cess that helps speed up The grant is for $300,000 per University of Delaware and chemical reactions making year for three years. Dr. Fren- Dr. R. Adzic of Brookhaven, them more efficient. kel’s application was for the from September onwards. “Catalysts are important in Special creation of a Synchrotron Day-to-day operations will industrial chemistry and are Orientation Catalysis Consortium dedicat- be carried out by a scientist used in 90 percent of all ed to catalysis and nano- who will be hired by the con- chemical processes, and gen- Spread Inside science research and based at sortium. Research opportuni- erate 60 percent of today’s Brookhaven. ties at the consortium will be chemical products,” he said. See pages 4-5 The funds will be divided open to scientists from the US between Yeshiva University and abroad. continued on page 6

answers to the public,” said “I am hopeful that this will YU Looks to the Stars for Dr. Tyson, who has authored be the kind of interdisciplinary or co-authored seven books. course that will build bridges YC Writer-in-Residence Fun and elucidating prose between the sciences and is what Dr. Tyson hopes to humanities,” Dr. Jacobson said. eil deGrasse Tyson To make money as a gradu- teach to the 12 students tak- Dr. Tyson, who has already grew up in Skyview ate student, Dr. Tyson wrote a ing his course in the Jay and taught science at Columbia Apartments in column for an astronomy Jeanie Schottenstein Honors University, Princeton Univer- Riverdale, NY. Per- newsletter answering the pub- Program at Yeshiva College. sity, and the Hayden Planet- Nhaps the name inspired the lic’s questions about astrono- The Writer-in-Residence arium, dreamed of teaching world-renowned astrophysi- my and space. program was established in writing and was excited about cist to look to the stars. He wrote as “Merlin,” a 1996 to give students an op- the opportunity to teach at YC. Now Dr. Tyson is the Fred- time-traveling tour guide, portunity to learn writing Dr. Jacobson cited Michael erick P. Rose Director of the who has been alive for all of from a working writer, said YC Pollan’s The Botany of Desire, Hayden Planetarium in New the earth’s history. A collec- English Department Chair and Dava Sobel’s Galileo’s York City and the new Yeshiva tion of those columns has Joanne Jacobson. Daughter as representative of a College Writer-in-Residence been published as Merlin’s Previous writers in resi- new genre of writing bringing for the fall semester. Tour of the Universe and trans- dence have been fiction writers, science to a wider audience. It is a welcome career twist lated into eight languages. and Dr. Jacobson sees Dr. Dr. Tyson’s book of essays, Dr. Neil deGrasse Tyson, for Dr. Tyson, who admits he “It gave me a chance to Tyson’s selection as “pushing director of Hayden Planetarium. fell into writing “by accident.” have fun while bringing the disciplinary envelope.” continued on page 6

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D An Interview YU Recruits New Students’ Students Travel

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Sam Hartstein ’43Y, former PR Martin and Shelley Kaufman, YU Leah (Witty) Stromer ’82S, assis- People in the News director, and wife Ruth on the birth Guardians and supporters of tant to the SSSB dean, Office of of a grandson, Jordan Elliot Hart- RIETS, YU, and BRGS (on whose Career Services, on the loss of her stein, to Jonathan and Carole. board Mr. Kaufman serves) on the father, Rabbi Yitzchak (Irwin) Lawrence Bellman, assistant pro- Peter Morgan Kash, an AGS doc- loss of his mother, Hilda Kaufman. Witty YH,’53Y,R. fessor of management and mar- toral student and cofounder of Esther (Finkle) Hollander ’98S, keting and director of the Rennert Paramount Capitol, Inc., authored former media relations writer at YU, Entrepreneurial Institute at SSSB, Make Your Own Luck (Prentice Hall). and husband Yitzchak Hollander Wurzweiler Mourns Passing published “Attracting Undergrad- The book has been translated into ’92Y, on the birth of a son, uates to an Entrepreneurship Pro- Hebrew, Russian and Chinese. Avraham. of Margaret Gibelman gram,” Journal of Entrepreneurship

Education, vol. 7, 2004; and “Entre- Aaron Levine, Samson and Halina WE MOURN Wurzweiler School of Social Work suffered a great loss June 3 when preneurs: Invent a New Brand Bitensky Professor of Economics, Margaret Gibelman, DSW, professor and director of its Doctoral Name or Revive an Old One?”, authored “Price Controls in Jewish Norman Eisenberg, former YU Program, passed away after battling lung cancer. Dr. Gibelman made Business Horizons, vol. 48, issue 3, Law – An Efficiency Analysis,” in the deputy director of communications a substantial contribution to the field of June 2005. journal Dine Israel, 23, 2005, pp. and public affairs, who passed away social work as a scholar, author, researcher, 1-52. Aug 1. Condolences to his wife, mentor, and practitioner. J. David Bleich, PhD, CSL Herbert Carol; daughter, Samantha; mother, “She was the consummate academic, and Florence Tenzer Professor of Prof Edith (Slomowitz) Lubetski Evelyn, and sister, Elaine. with a commitment to scholarship, her Jewish Law and Ethics, authored ’68B, Hedi Steinberg Library head profession, and her students,” said “A 19th-Century Agunah Problem librarian, addressed a New York Marshall S. Horwitz, MD, chair Sheldon R. Gelman, PhD, Dorothy and and a 20th-Century Solution,” Metropolitan Area chapter meet- of microbiology and immunology David I. Schachne Dean at Wurzweiler. Tradition magazine. ing of the Association of Jewish at Einstein and a world-renowned Before coming to Wurzweiler in 1994, Libraries on the occasion of its virologist, who died May 31. Con- she taught at Rutgers University and the Rabbi Shalom Carmy ’70Y,B,R, 20th anniversary celebration. dolences to his wife, Dr. Susan National Catholic School of Social Ser- YU assistant professor of Bible and Band Horwitz, cochair of molec- vices. Dr. Gibelman’s management expertise was in high demand editor of Tradition, has contributed David Pelcovitz, PhD, Gwendolyn ular pharmacology and the Rose among national organizations. She served as associate executive direc- many of his essays to the Web site and Joseph Straus Professor of C. Falkenstein Professor of Cancer tor of the Council on Social Work Education, and executive director of of the Academy for Torah Initiatives Jewish Education at AGS and SCW, Research at Einstein; sons Joshua the Lupus Foundation of America and the National Association of and Directions, www.atid.org. recently spoke on “Children and and Bruce; and his grandchildren. School Psychologists. Trauma” during Grand Rounds at Dr. Gibelman held senior staff positions with the National Con- Chaim Feuerman, PhD, AGS the Center for Clinical Pastoral Lola Kramer, a Benefactor with ference on Social Welfare and the American Public Welfare Association. Golda Koschitzky Professor of Education; “How External Influ- her husband, Saul, who endowed She served as a consultant to the National Association of Social Jewish Education, presented ences Affect our Children” at the the Saul and Lola Kramer Chair in Workers and to the Council on Accreditation for Services to Families “Building Relationships by Con- Maimonides Academy of Los Molecular Biology, established the and Children. necting with Students” via video- Angeles; “Conflict Resolution” at Lola and Saul Kramer Loan Fund, A prolific author, publishing more than 125 articles and book chap- conferencing, with five schools on the Orthodox Union Synagogue and a fund for Dr. Cedric Raine’s ters, she also authored or co-authored eight books, including What behalf of AMODS: in Dallas, TX; Leadership Seminar; and “The research in multiple sclerosis, all at Social Workers Do (1995, second edition 2005) and the more recent Columbus, OH; Five Towns, NY; Mechanech’s Expanding Role: A AECOM. They also supported the Navigating Human Service Organizations (2003). Cleveland, OH; and Montreal. He is Psychologist’s View” at the Torah Albert Einstein Comprehensive For the past several years Dr. Gibelman ran the mentoring program conducting consultations on behalf U-Mesorah Conference in May. Cancer Center, and the relocation for all new faculty at YU and developed the research infrastructure for of the Combined Jewish Philan- and renovation of FGS. Manhattan Campus faculty out of the Office of the Vice President for thropies of Greater Boston “Peerless Alvin I. Schiff ‘47Y,F, PhD, Irving Academic Affairs. Excellence” project. I. Stone Distinguished Professor of Joseph H. Warburg, a YU Guardian During the last few months of her illness, Dr. Gibelman gained Jewish Education, AGS, authored with his wife, Ilse. Condolences to insight into the indignities of the health care system. “The only thing Scott Goldberg, PhD, AGS assis- “Midor L’Dor—I Remember: High- her, and to their children, Rabbi that makes us human is compassion,” she said in a message sent to tant professor of education and lights of the Founding of the Ronald YH’65 and David YH,’75Y Wurzweiler students at graduation in May. “Our job as social workers psychology, spoke during the sum- March of the Living,” Chadashot, Warburg and Joan Rothman. is to ensure that compassion will always be a part of who and what we mer at South Nassau Communi- the quarterly of the Young Israel of are. In the end, that is all that is important.” ties Hospital Psychiatry Grand Oceanside. Dr. Schiff founded CONDOLENCES TO Rounds, at a conference of the March of the Living, USA, and was Coalition for the Advancement of instrumental in organizing the Janet Adler, WSSW board member Jewish Education (CAJE); at NETA March of the Living, International. who endowed the Janet Saporta Hebrew Language Program Master Adler Scholarship Fund at WSSW, YUToday Teacher Training, in Newton, MA; The third edition of WingWin on the loss of her father, Sam VOLUME 10 • NUMBER 1 at Merkos L’Inyanei Chinuch Instructional software, codeveloped Saporta. Fourth Annual Conference (Plenary by David Schnall, PhD, Herbert H. YESHIVA UNIVERSITY Session), at Denver Academy of Schiff Professor of Management and Harvey Barnett, SSSB adjunct pro- Morry J. Weiss, Chairman Torah, and Hillel Brain Compatible Administration at WSSW and AGS fessor of management, on the loss YU Board of Trustees College, Hillel Community Day dean, with WSSW faculty members of his father, Maurice. Richard M. Joel President School, Miami, FL. Charles Auerbach, PhD, and Heidi Dr. Norman Lamm Heft LaPorte, DSW, was released Dr. Monique C. Katz, vice chair- Chancellor Isaac Hollander, PhD, AGS mas- by Ally and Bacon Publishers. man of the SCW board of directors Georgia B. Pollak ter’s student and Canadian Jewish and a Benefactor with husband Executive Director of University Communications

Education Fellow (Toronto), CONGRATULATIONS TO Mordecai D. Katz, university trus- Joshua L. Muss, Chairman, Board of Directors, Yeshiva College; Marjorie Diener Blenden, authored Jews and Muslims in Lower tee and BRGS Board of Directors Chairman, Board of Directors, Stern College for Women; Bernard L. Madoff, Chairman, Board of Yemen (Brill). Rabbi Kenneth Brander ’84Y,R, chairman, on the loss of her father, Directors, Sy Syms School of Business; Ira M. Millstein, Chairperson, Board of Overseers, Albert Einstein College of Medicine; Kathryn O. Greenberg, Chairman, Board of Directors, Benjamin Center for the Jewish Future dean, Jacques Censor. N. Cardozo School of Law; Robert Schwalbe, Chair, Board of Governors, Wurzweiler School of and Rachel (Tambor) ‘84S on the Social Work; Mordecai D. Katz, Chairman, Board of Directors, Bernard Revel Graduate School birth of fifth child Chaim Yitzchak of Jewish Studies; Katherine Sachs, Chair, Board of Governors, Ferkauf Graduate School of Psychology; Moshael J. Straus, Chairman, Board of Directors, Azrieli Graduate School of Jewish Amichai. Education and Administration; Julius Berman, Chairman, Board of Trustees, (affiliate) Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary; Erica Jesselson, Chairperson, Board of Directors, (affiliate) Yeshiva University Museum. Board listings as of August 1, 2005.

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Rabbi Richard Bieler: Building Bridges Across the US

YU’s relationship with our that some players lived across messages with content. We Center for the Jewish Future past, present, and future stu- the street from our house. had fun. We hardly slept! to offer students leadership dents. As I travel to com- Around the time of my bar People opened up about training programs so that munities across the States mitzvah, I had my first expe- what was important to them. their education prepares and Canada, we are establish- rience in Jewish communal That’s where I first met them for life after they grad- ing ‘community councils’ leadership. The rabbi of our President Joel. uate. They will find increas- comprised of community congregation in Bayside ing opportunities from the leaders and alumni. We want chose me to lead a group of Q: Tell me about your years communities where we are to be a resource—whether teens known in the syna- as a student at YU. establishing local councils to providing leadership train- gogue as the ‘Minyan Corps.’ A: I majored in political sci- strengthen their personal and ing, offering a lecture series ence at Yeshiva College but it communal leadership skills. featuring YU faculty, or Q: What drew you to Jewish was the James Striar School of Our friends in Houston, bringing together groups of communal outreach? General Jewish Studies that led by Ira Mitzner and Shira abbi Richard Bieler—a leaders to discuss common A: Torah Leadership Semi- made the greatest difference Yoshor, came up with the graduate of Yeshiva challenges. We have a collec- nars [sponsored by YU in my college education. The idea of a job fair to en- College (1974), RIETS tive goal to share what we through its former Depart- teachers mastered the art of courage young couples to (1978), and Revel have. That’s the whole point ment of Communal Services] teaching former public school move there. Houston alumni R(1979)—joined YU as senior of education—to draw upon showed me how vibrant and students like myself to read from different professions executive director for commu- previous generations’ experi- exciting a Torah life could basic Hebrew texts while treat- will come to New York, meet nity affairs last December, one ences and inspire future be. That experience con- ing us as adults. with interested graduates and of several key appointments generations. vinced me that I wanted to students, and offer them jobs by President Richard M. Joel I also supervise alumni live an observant life. Q: How has YU changed and housing incentives. to broaden the university’s affairs and serve as a senior since you were a student? leadership in and service to member of the advancement Q: What was it about the A: There is an exciting com- Q: What would you like to communities across North team. Torah Leadership Seminars mitment to looking forward tell this year’s incoming America. He sat down with that attracted you? and reaching outward to stu- undergraduate students? YU Today to discuss his role. Q: Where did you grow up A: It was the spirit, and dents and lay leadership A: Look for opportunities to and go to school? being exposed to some of the around the country. learn how to be a Jewish Q: What do you do as senior A: I was born in the Bronx, most remarkable teachers in leader and to help build a executive director for com- grew up in Queens, and went the community—people like Q: How will students benefit Jewish future. By the time munity affairs? to public school until college. alumnus Rabbi Shlomo from the communal out- you finish your studies here, A: One of my most impor- I was an avid Mets fan grow- Riskin and advisors from YU reach you’re doing? you’ll enter your career path tant goals is to strengthen ing up, helped by the fact who delivered inspirational A: We will work with the with remarkable skills.

CENTER FOR THE JEWISH FUTURE Presidential Fellows Program Builds on YU to Host Orthodox Caucus Auspicious First Year

he Orthodox Caucus, creative solutions to sensitive he idea of giving oversees the program. administrative skills and a a group of professional and pressing issues,” Mr. Ehr- something back to “I have already learned so professional network that can and lay leaders whose man said. “By partnering with Yeshiva University much about YU and the out- help me in my future career in mission is to address YU we hope to broaden the has inspired 14 of side world in the short time Jewish communal work,” said Tchallenges facing the Ortho- scope of our efforts to strength- TYU’s 2005 graduates to spend that I have been on the job,” Monsey native Aliza Abrams, dox and larger Jewish com- en Jewish life.” another year on campus par- said Malca Fink, who began who is working in the Max munity, has joined forces with The Caucus has tackled ticipating in the Presidential working in Dean Gelman’s Stern Division of Communal Yeshiva University in con- issues such as assisting parents Fellows program established office in early July. Services. junction with the Center for with developmentally disabled by President Richard M. Joel. Ms. Fink has “gone every- The Fellows will attend the Jewish Future (CJF). The children; formulating policies Now in its second year, the where with the dean,” mak- biweekly leadership seminars Caucus will relocate to YU’s for schools regarding sub- Presidential Fellows program ing valuable contacts in NY covering key topics in univer- Wilf Campus in September. stance abuse; developing pre- is part of a broader effort to state and city agencies as she sity administration and Jewish The Orthodox Caucus nuptial agreements in coopera- train top graduates at the uni- considers future studies in communal leadership, taught brings together prominent tion with the Beth Din of versity and expand YU’s serv- psychology or law. by Dean Gelman. rabbis, roshei yeshiva (profes- America and the Rabbinical ice to the Jewish community. Many of the new Fellows Last year’s group of Fellows sors of Talmud), educators, and Council of America to ease the “My intention is to inspire are considering careers in made a substantial contribu- lay leaders in common cause. plight of agunot (chained these young people not only Jewish communal service and tion to the university. They “Bringing the Orthodox Cau- women); and guiding parents to pursue their professional see their participation as a organized student activities cus into the YU sphere of influ- and students in selecting yesh- dreams, but to remain com- good way to test the waters. ence will allow top-tier Jewish ivot and seminaries in Israel mitted to the university and “I hope I will gain both continued on page 7 leaders to draw upon the in- for post-high school studies. the Jewish community by uti- tellectual, spiritual, and edu- The progressive initiatives lizing the very skills they will cational resources of YU, and of the Caucus will add a signi- gain,” President Joel said. strengthen their contribution ficant dimension to the Center The Fellows were chosen to the Jewish community,” for the Jewish Future “by offer- after an intensive screening said President Richard M. Joel. ing solutions to problems fac- process based on their aca- The Orthodox Caucus has ing our community when there demic performance, campus offered programs in approxi- isn’t any other place to turn,” leadership, and concern for mately ten communities in said Rabbi Kenneth Brander, the Jewish community. the New York metropolitan dean of the CJF. Each Fellow will work with area and beyond. Jordana Schoor, executive a senior administrator, who Fred Ehrman, chairman of director of the Caucus, said that will mentor him or her and the Orthodox Caucus, viewed the two entities plan to focus elicit feedback as former stu- the move as an important their energies in complemen- dents, said Sheldon R. opportunity for the organiza- tary ways, thereby cutting Gelman, PhD, the Dorothy tion and the Jewish commu- costs and avoiding institu- and David I. Schachne Dean nity. “Over the past 13 years, tional duplication—both ini- of YU’s Wurzweiler School of L-R: Aviva (Balk) Needle, Diana Benmergui, Shalom Silbermintz, we have succeeded in spurring tiatives that the Caucus is now Social Work. Dean Gelman, Hindy Poupko, Aliza Abrams, and Ilana Lieberson. Not pictured communities to action by introducing to other Jewish who is also associate vice are: Malca Fink, Sarah Agadjani, Ayal Frist, Aaron Gavant, Oren raising awareness and finding communal organizations. I president for academic affairs, Kaufman, Michael Rosman, Sorah Shapiro, and Rebecca Stone.

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I Experts in Bioethics, Middle East, Jewish New Students: Why They Chose YU History

ot all of the new Middle East, including the faces on campus this region’s Jewry and the history semester belong to of Iraq, Dr. Simon was formerly students. Yeshiva the associate director of Colum- NUniversity appointed 31 under- bia’s Middle East Institute. graduate and graduate faculty Steven Fine, PhD, professor members for the 2005–06 aca- of Judaic studies at the demic year, almost double the University of Cincinnati, is number hired last year. YC visiting professor of Jewish “We are reaping the fruits history. He is an historian of of a plan I put in place two Judaism during late antiquity. years ago to increase the num- Sy Syms School of Business ber of full-time faculty,” said appointed Sheldon Friedman, Adey Fisseha Sarah Gogel Rick Lopez Morton Lowengrub, PhD, vice PhD, visiting associate profes- Benjamin N. Cardozo Wurzweiler School of Albert Einstein College president for academic affairs. sor of management. He previ- School of Law Social Work of Medicine Seventeen new positions ously taught at Touro/Lander were created this year—14 College and was director of “I’ve always been interested in “I left Paris, France, in 2001 to “I didn’t think about going back undergraduate and 3 graduate, healthcare management pro- public policy. At Harvard, I study at Harvard because I pre- to school until my two daughters with the remaining positions grams at the Lally School of majored in government, and I ferred the US model of education. went to college. I grew up a ghet- being replacements. Management and Technology worked on Capitol Hill for Con- This June, I started summer to-boy in San Fernando, an inner at Rensselaer at Hartford. gressman Howard Berman, a classes in Wurzweiler’s Block city part of LA. If it weren’t for Graduate Appointments Other undergraduate ap- Democrat representing San Fer- Plan. The school’s warmth was my kids, I wouldn't be going to Adrienne Asch, PhD, a bio- pointments include: nando Valley, CA. My family obvious from the start. I have medical school. They taught me ethics expert and authority on Yeshiva College came here from Ethiopia in never been part of a Jewish com- as much as I taught them. While the rights of disabled, is the • Jennifer Driscoll, lecturer in 1980. Having navigated the im- munity, so it is fascinating to raising my family, I worked vari- Edward Millstein Professor of English migration system, I felt drawn to learn about Jewish approaches to ous jobs in business and played Bioethics at Wurzweiler • Jenny Isaacs, assistant pro- the field of immigrants’ rights, social work. Understanding how gigs as a jazz musician. I always School of Social Work. Pre- fessor of psychology and worked at the National the Jews survived persecution will studied on my own to better viously on the faculty at • Jianfeng Jiang, assistant Immigration Law Center in Wash- help me to understand other eth- myself, whether it was reading Wellesley College, her research professor of chemistry ington, DC. I chose Cardozo nic minorities’ survival skills. financial statements or playing and policy work has focused • Debra Kaplan, assistant because it has committed itself to From September to mid-May I’m the guitar. But without a degree it on reproductive rights, dis- professor of Jewish studies providing financial help to those working at a family health center was difficult to advance in my ability, genetics, and surrogacy. • Evan Resnick, assistant interested in careers in public in the Jewish quarter of Paris. career. So, in 2002 I received my Dr. Asch has co-written or co- professor of political science interest law.” After I graduate, I want to return BA from Cal State University edited seven books. • Maury Silver, visiting profes- to France to work with trauma Northridge. And now I'm pursu- Carmen Ortiz Hendricks, sor of psychology survivors, immigrants, and ing my MD at Einstein after DSW, a 1993 graduate of • Robert Stretter, assistant refugees.” dreaming about this for years.” Wurzweiler’s doctoral pro- professor of English gram and professor at Hunter School of Social Work for the Isaac Breuer College of past 25 years, joins Wurz- Hebraic Studies weiler as professor and associ- • Gil Perl, instructor of Jew- ate dean. Dr. Ortiz Hendricks ish studies (also at YC) has held numerous social • Joshua Flug, instructor of work leadership positions, Jewish studies (also at SCW) including the presidency of the NYC Chapter of the Yeshiva College and Stern National Association of Social College for Women Work. She is recognized for • Jill Katz, lecturer in archeology her expertise in developing • Mario Kessler, visiting pro- curriculum materials on cul- fessor of history tural competence and multi- • Lance Silverman, assistant cultural practice. professor of chemistry Thomas Coghlan Ruth Gafni David and Sara Wolkenfeld Other graduate appointments: Ferkauf Graduate School Azrieli Graduate School of Bernard Revel Graduate • Shani Bechhofer, PhD, assis- Stern College for Women of Psychology Jewish Education and School of Jewish Studies tant professor at Azrieli Grad- • Osnat Bishko, instructor of Administration uate School of Jewish Edu- Hebrew cation and Administration • Robin Freyberg, instructor “As an NYPD detective, I handle “This is my fourth year as princi- “My husband and I are starting • Richard Bierschbach, Eric Pan, of psychology special projects for the chief of pal of the Solomon Schechter the master’s program together. and Julie Suk, all assistant pro- • Rabbi Lawrence Hajioff, personnel. I’ve worked on large School in Bergen County, NJ. I We both recently taught a num- fessors of law at Benjamin N. instructor of Jewish studies projects such as recommending wanted to connect with other ber of classes at the Hamptons Cardozo School of Law • Elizabeth Hollander, visiting entry-level physical standards for Jewish educators and establish Synagogue. I’d like to improve my assistant professor of English new officers, which have changed an in-depth relationship with an teaching of Talmud, and am hop- Undergrad Appointments • Elizabeth Hollow, instructor since 9-11, and revising psycho- institution that would promote ing my master’s will serve as a A number of new faculty of English and assistant direc- logical tests. I review candidates academic and Jewish excellence. grounding for a PhD. My hus- have been appointed in the tor of the Writing Center and research their psychological I’ve attended short programs at band is focusing on Jewish histo- humanities and social sciences. • Ann Peters, assistant profes- background. I am also a member other schools in Israel and the ry and would like to be a pulpit or These include five appoint- sor of American literature of the department’s Hostage States but I wanted more. campus rabbi. Revel’s night classes ments in English, two in art, • Esther Scheiner, assistant Negotiation Team. I chose Fer- Azrieli’s PhD program has a good are convenient for us because my and three in psychology. professor of education kauf for my doctorate in clinical reputation among some of the husband is studying at Yeshivat Reeva Simon, PhD, previ- • Traci Tullis, assistant profes- psychology because it offers a teachers I met at those courses.” Chovevei Torah and I will be a ously adjunct associate pro- sor of art wide array of perspectives, from teaching fellow at Salantar Akiba fessor, has joined full time as • Rivka Weiner, instructor of cognitive behavioral therapy to Academy of Riverdale. We were professor of history at both Hebrew psychoanalysis.” also drawn by the school’s strong Stern College and Yeshiva • Jacob Wisse, associate pro- Jewish studies faculty.” College. An expert in the fessor of art history

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YESHIVA COLLEGE • STERN COLLEGE FOR WOMEN • SY SYMS SCHOOL OF BUSINESS Summer Research Beckons Undergrads to Einstein

Why They Chose YU I Working Under Top Scientists

Alanna Apfel Chavi Becker Esther Sofer Stern College for Women Stern College for Women Sy Syms School of Business

Los Angeles, CA: “I went to high Efrat, Israel: “My family made Panama City, Panama: “I am Roth Scholar Sarah Weinerman worked in a cell biology lab, school at Yeshiva University High aliyah from Cleveland in 1997. excited to meet other Jewish peo- helping to develop gene therapy methods to cure blood diseases. School of Los Angeles and spent a I’m returning to the US to study ple from around the world. year at Michlelet Mevasseret because, although I’m interested Yeshiva University is the best fter a year’s worth of in Dr. Diana Pettit’s lab in the Yerushalayim. I considered Ivy in science and medicine, I want a option for Orthodox Jewish youth hard work toward neuroscience department, League schools, but what drew me general education. After high because it has all the facilities earning their under- helping to identify kainate re- to Stern was its dual curriculum school I spent a year volunteering and programs that make being graduate degrees, a ceptor distribution in various and high acceptance rate to grad- in the intensive care unit at observant easier. I like the fact Ahandful of Yeshiva College types of interneurons in the uate school. Why go elsewhere Sha’are Tzedek Hospital in Jeru- that I can take Jewish studies and and Stern College for Women hippocampus part of the when I can get it all here? I plan salem. It was an eye-opening study marketing and advertising seniors marked the beginning brain. Dr. Pettit’s lab is research- to study history, specifically experience, working with Rus- at Sy Syms School of Business. of summer by taking on yet ing the role of these receptors Jewish history in the context of sians, Arabs, Christians, and all Almost 10,000 Jews live in Pan- another academic challenge— in modulating the rhythmic world history. Ultimately, I’d like sorts of Jews. My parents, grand- ama City. We have Jewish intensive biomedical research brain waves produced by to pursue a career in the business parents, and all my aunts and schools, kosher restaurants, a at YU’s Albert Einstein College interneurons, which could have world. I want to continue on my uncles studied at YU. My grand- youth movement, and social of Medicine. applications for the treatment religious path, and learn to bal- father, Abe Stern, [who was the clubs. There is very little anti-Sem- This year, eight Roth Scholars of epilepsy. ance being in both the religious youth bureau director of the itism. I was a madricha (coun- and two University Summer Most of the students are and secular worlds.” Community Service Division] selor) in the youth movement, Research Scholars spent nine considering pursuing medical influenced a generation of people. and I was in charge of its maga- weeks doing graduate-level degrees. But the experience It gives me a good feeling to go to zine. I’d like to get involved in research under the tutelage of often piques their interest in a place that he helped build.” the undergraduate newspaper.” Einstein’s top scientists. research, and pushes them to “Both programs, which are apply to MD/PhD programs, funded separately, allow under- Dr. Potvin said. graduate science students the Each year a few of the stu- opportunity to experience dents continue their research high-level research with uni- at Einstein, or use the experi- versity scientists,” said Barry ence to network with other Potvin, PhD, professor of biol- researchers so they can partic- ogy at YC and chairperson of ipate in similar work at labs the Roth Summer Research closer to the Beren or Wilf Fellowship Committee. The campuses. students work in teams along- Toronto native Ilana Pister— side graduate and post-doctor- who studied spleen growth in ate students. mice as a result of the parasite Stern student Yael Saden trypanosoma cruzi, which Barach, of Teaneck, NJ, said causes Chagas’ disease—is con- the Roth Scholars experience tinuing her work at Einstein Seraphya Berrin Jeremy Hellman Jakob Nowotny exposed her to the day-to-day during the year with Dr. Yeshiva College Yeshiva College Yeshiva College life of working in a lab. Linda Jelicks, associate profes- “I’ve learned new tech- sor of physiology and bio- New York, NY: “I’m returning to St. Louis, MO: “My parents, Munich, Germany: “I studied at niques under the guidance of physics. Brooklynite Frida the States after living for two brother, and sister studied at YU. Yeshivat Hakotel in Jerusalem for my mentor, and participated Fridman, has also extended years in Australia, where my I graduated from Block Yeshiva a year. I will concentrate on sci- in departmental functions and her research into potential mother worked as a professor. We High School in St. Louis and ence courses at Yeshiva College as seminars that have exposed me inhibitors for tumor growth have also lived in Jerusalem and spent two years in Israel at Kerem I plan to be a doctor. I want to to exciting discoveries in neu- with Dr. Vern Schramm, Ruth London, England. I spent two B’Yavneh. I want a good all- grow as a Jew in a Jewish envi- roscience taking place at Ein- Merns Professor of Biochem- weeks this summer at an under- around education while continu- ronment, which I couldn’t do in stein,” the biology major said. istry, at Cornell Weil Medical water field school run by the ing my Jewish studies, and I want my home community in Munich. Ms. Saden Barach worked College. I PAST Foundation in the Florida to remain in a Jewish atmos- Moreover, I am looking forward to Keys, doing research on a ship phere. I may major in pre-med having contact with Jewish stu- that sank in 1880. I was part of and am thinking of getting dents and meeting new and inter- Roth Scholars University Summer a scuba diving team that mapped involved in some of the Israel esting people.” Research Scholars out the shipwreck. I’m interested clubs, as well as basketball. I’m Yael Saden Barach Helen Nissim David Krausz in archeology, which I guess is excited about meeting new people Stern College Stern College Yeshiva College due to my mother’s influence, as and experiencing the different Frida Fridman Ilana Pister Shani Snyder it is close to her field of study— roshei yeshiva and rebbeim.” Stern College Stern College Stern College Bible. I hope to make good con- Tamar Gold Tehilla Stepansky nections with the rabbis and stu- Stern College Stern College dents. I like the mix of yeshiva Joshua Hamburger Sarah Weinerman and university at YU.” Yeshiva College Stern College

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“The other well-defined areas course that will train re- Longtime English Professor Retires of industrial catalysis are petro- searchers to use a technique leum, pharmaceutical, and called x-ray absorption spec- touch with many of the stu- environmental industries.” troscopy. YU’s contribution dents who took her class. Yeshiva University will co- will enable more graduate stu- “These were highly motivated sponsor the consortium’s first dents to attend the workshop. individuals. Almost every time workshop in September. Dr. I I taught the course, people Frenkel is the organizer and went to Dublin afterwards for one of the lecturers in the Bloom’s Day,” she said. workshop. It will be a short In addition to teaching, Dr. Haahr served on many faculty, administrative, and student- related governing bodies and YC Writer-in-Residence, continued from page 1 committees, including the YC Senate, the Humanities Exe- Universe Down to Earth, is a Dr. Tyson plans to focus on cutive Committee, the Faculty good example of this kind of various nonfiction forms of Executive Committee, and the writing. In the essays, Dr. Tyson writing during his Monday Joan Haahr at home in Riverdale, where she is working YC Dean Evaluation Commit- says he tries to “connect you night classes, training stu- on a family history project. tee, as chair. She served as with cosmic subjects by refer- dents to write letters to the president of YU’s American encing things around you editor, feature stories for mag- his spring, Joan Haahr fellow for two years before Association of University Pro- that are familiar.” azines, chapters in a book, bid farewell to her stu- coming to YU in 1969. fessors chapter since its “I don’t just want to write entries in an encyclopedia, dents and colleagues Her involvement with the founding. about the universe. I want to news articles, and perhaps after 36 years on the honors track began when she Though she is officially take you there. I want you to some fiction assignments. I Tfaculty at Yeshiva College. Pro- developed the Freshman retired, Dr. Haahr plans to feel that we are having a con- fessor of English and depart- Honors 1 and 2 seminars dur- return to Yeshiva College next versation at dinner.” ment chair from 1981 to 1988 ing the 1980s, precursors to spring to teach an introducto- and 1989 to 2000, she said it’s today’s Jay and Jeanie Schot- ry course on the British novel time to “shed my full-time tenstein Honors Program at and in spring 2007 to partici- position for one of greater YC. She also pioneered the pate in another interdiscipli- YESHIVA UNIVERSITY HIGH SCHOOLS flexibility.” interdisciplinary honors cours- nary honors course with Dr. During her tenure at YU, es, which she team-taught Bevan. Otherwise, she is work- Dr. Haahr taught the works of three times with Dr. Ruth A. ing at home on a long-term YU Launches High School English, Scandinavian, and Bevan, David W. Petegorsky project to trace the recent his- Continental medieval authors. Professor of Political Science. tory of her family—German Summer Program She also taught courses in Last summer, she accompa- Jews who escaped the Holo- British novels and novelists, nied students in her Ulysses caust. She also plans to travel and said she may have taught honors class and others to and has just returned from a wenty eight high studying secular subjects. more honors courses at Dublin to focus on James trip to Iceland, Denmark, and school seniors from “The highlight for me was Yeshiva College than anyone Joyce and explore Irish culture. Germany. as close as Brooklyn, being exposed to the roshei on the faculty. “Initially, I decided to teach “I think it’s important to NY, and as far away as yeshiva [professors of Talmud] “I’m a medievalist by train- Joyce because no one else was lead a balanced life. That’s TWinnipeg, Canada, came to of the modern Orthodox ing, but I’ve taught a broad doing it. It turned out to be where many faculty members New York City this summer to world,” said Talia Abell of array of subjects at Yeshiva one of my top courses and shortchange themselves. My participate in YU’s first sum- Chicago, a student at Hannah College,” said Dr. Haahr, who I’ve taught it every five years retirement is another part of mer high school program. Sacks Bais Yaakov Girls High earned her doctorate at Har- or so since then,” she said, that balance,” she said. I “It far exceeded anybody’s School. vard, where she was a teaching noting that she keeps in expectations,” said Aliza Star- They sampled New York’s eshefsky, coordinator of the vibrant cultural and Jewish life Summer at YU program, which visited museums, saw a Broad- ran July 3-31. way show, and spent Shabbat Many universities offer in communities around the Georgia Pollak to Lead summer programs for high New York metropolitan area. school students to take classes, The students were also University Communications explore the campus and get a treated to a barbeque at YU sense of whether they want to President Richard Joel’s home. apply during the next school “That was a big highlight,” Yeshiva University recently appointed Georgia B. Pollak as executive director of uni- year, Ms. Stareshefsky said. said Jonathan Korman of versity communications and member of the President’s Cabinet. YU wanted to offer a similar Highland Park, IL, a student Ms. Pollak brings almost 30 years of experience in all areas of communications, experience, but with a twist. at Ida Crown Jewish Academy including media relations, advertising, print publications, “Our program offers the in Chicago. Web development, and event management. Her work has additional component of im- Mr. Korman was interested spanned several academic institutions as well as leading inter- mersing students in Orthodox in YU for its “mixture of Torah national companies in consumer and industrial marketing. life on YU’s undergraduate and secular life” before attend- “I am delighted to welcome Georgia to the YU family,” said campuses,” Ms. Stareshefsky ing the summer program, but President Richard M. Joel. “I am confident that with her said. spending four weeks on the knowledge of academic communications, for-profit market- The students spent their Wilf Campus has solidified his ing, and strategic planning, Georgia will play a key role as we mornings in Jewish studies interest in applying. I write the next chapter for Yeshiva, build on our excellence, classes and their afternoons attract wonderful students, and find a voice for YU as a whole.” “I am particularly pleased to expand the presence and influence of talented women professionals in the senior leadership of the university,” he said. Ms. Pollak comes to YU from Sarah Lawrence College, where she served for the last six years as its spokesperson and director of communications for its undergrad- uate and graduate programs. Previously, she served as vice president of communications at American Friends of Hebrew University and director of development and public affairs at The Abraham Joshua Heschel School in Manhattan. Ms. Pollak also has extensive experience in the for-profit arena and holds an MBA from Columbia University. She was account supervisor at Ogilvy & Mather and McCaffrey & McCall advertising agencies. For over a decade, she headed a market- ing consulting and research firm with a diverse client base of Fortune 500 and pri- vately held corporations. I The high school students visited the ‘Printing the Talmud’ exhibit at YU Museum during their stay on campus.

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JAY AND JEANIE SCHOTTENSTEIN HONORS PROGRAM S. DANIEL ABRAHAM HONORS PROGRAM Classroom Lessons Come to Life on Summer Trips Abroad

I YC Students Learn About Renaissance Culture and Science in Italy I A Literary View of London for Stern Students

eeing was believing for David in Florence, the Torre “Shabbat in Italy gave further a group of 14 Yeshiva del Mangia in Siena, and the meaning to the new perspec- College students who Doge’s Palace in Venice. tive we gained from practicing traveled to Italy during For the science segment of Judaism during our visit,” said Sthe summer to explore the the trip, they visited Alexander Grange, a senior. flowering of Italian Renais- Florence’s Museum of the “Experiencing the joy of Shab- sance culture and science. History of Science, where bat in a foreign culture taught Sponsored by the college’s Galileo’s instruments are dis- us that one does not need Jay and Jeanie Schottenstein played, and the University of New York to be a faithful Jew.” Honors Program, the summer Padua, where the father of sci- The students visited the program offered two courses, ence wrote Sidereus Nuncius, Jewish ghetto in Venice, “Italian Renaissance Culture: the first scientific treatise where the Italian Jews made Aliza Forman, Jenni Richton, Annie Berman, Architecture, Art, Music, and based on observations made their home but nonetheless and Eva Simons toured London. Literature” and “Galileo and through a telescope. participated in Italian culture the Origins of Classical The trip also expanded the and commerce. here is perhaps no taking tours around the city Physics.” After three weeks of students’ Jewish horizons. On Perhaps one of their most city more literary in that focused on Shakespeare’s classes and field trips in New a visit to the Uffizi Museum in fascinating trips was to a labo- the English language London, London in the 18th York City, students toured Florence, Ayol Samuels was ratory at the University of than London. Seven century, the London of Sher- Italy, stopping in Rome, Flor- taken by the painting The Florence where 21st-century TStern College students traveled lock Holmes, and Jewish Lon- ence, Siena, Pisa, Padua, and Sacrifice of Isaac by Caravaggio, science is used to decipher to London in late May to ex- don, as well as visiting muse- Venice. which depicts the angel inter- 16th-century documents. The plore the relationship be- ums and attractions such as “It’s one thing to read rupting Abraham as he pre- students saw a particle accel- tween literature and the city the Tower of London, the about art works, see slides, or pares to slit Isaac’s throat. erator that is used for, among of London between 1600 and British Library, and the Tate examine reproductions,” said “The intense expressions other things, dating the inks 1900. Museum. Will Lee, PhD, director of the and realism of the scene gave in Galileo’s manuscripts. Taught by English profes- Students attended perfor- college’s honors program, a perspective on the story that “We opened the students’ sor Nora Nachumi, “Literary mances at the Globe Theatre, “but it adds another dimen- cannot be conveyed in words,” eyes to a different culture,” London” was offered through the Open Air Theatre at Re- sion to see where the art was said the junior from Riverdale, said Gabriel Cwilich, PhD, the S. Daniel Abraham Honors gent’s Park, and the Royal produced—artist by artist, city NY. “The painting changed the associate professor of physics Program at Stern. Students Shakespeare Theatre at Strat- by city, painting by painting, way I think of the Biblical at YC, who designed the course studied works by British ford-upon-Avon. and building by building.” story.” on classical physics and led authors such as William Shake- “I wanted students to see The group visited such The Italian Jewish commu- the way during the science speare, Charles Dickens, Sam- several styles of playing Shake- renowned sites as the Coli- nities embraced the students segments of the journey. I uel Pepys, Frances Burney, and speare, ranging from innova- seum in Rome, Michelangelo’s and hosted them for Shabbat. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, and tive productions like ‘Pericles’ learned about the cultural, to more traditional versions,” political, and historical con- Prof. Nachumi said. text in which the works were Aliza Forman, an English written, read, or experienced. major from Teaneck, NJ, said Prof. Nachumi, who spe- she went on the trip to see her cializes in 18th- and 19th-cen- favorite texts “spring to life in tury British literature, said she the land of their origins.” wanted students to “envision “Seeing the manuscript of what was being described in Jane Austen’s novel Persuasion the literature.” on her writing desk was Mornings were dedicated inspiring,” she said. “It’s my to seminars led by either Prof. favorite novel and to see it in Nachumi or guest lecturers its creator’s handwriting, with from Kingston University, Uni- cross-outs and smudges, gave versity College London, and me a newfound appreciation the Graduate Center of the for both the novel and the City University of New York. author.” I Yeshiva College students with Prof. Will Lee (bottom right) on top of the Leaning Tower of Pisa. Students spent the afternoons

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Azrieli Summer Programs Attract Rising Enrollment across the US and Israel, dev- eloped a set of recommenda- his summer, Azrieli In the past, Azrieli’s Block tions on enhancing YU’s Graduate School of Educational Plan offered four undergraduate education, and Jewish Education and courses each summer, with an created the Incubator Project Administration average of 35-40 students a to support fledgling programs Tattracted 123 master’s and session. This summer, two ses- in need of sponsorship. doctoral students to its sum- sions and a total of twelve Some have been hired by mer sessions, almost quadru- courses offered 123 students the university. Elysia Roth- ple the number of students the opportunity to study ad- enberg Stein is coordinating from four years ago. vanced teaching methods and the Fellows program in the “It’s a popular opportunity administrative techniques. Office of the Vice President for for full-time teachers and edu- “Our mandate is twofold,” Academic Affairs, Joshua Ross cational leaders who don’t said Dean Schnall, “to offer a is working part-time in the have time for advanced study program of academic excel- dean’s office at Sy Syms during the year,” said David lence and rigor, and to be suf- School of Business, and Anat Schnall, PhD, Azrieli Dean. ficiently flexible to make it Barber is splitting her time This year’s summer classes accessible to a broad variety of between a double master’s at attracted students from across students. New faculty member Shani Bechhofer taught in the Block program. NYU (where she will be study- the continent—Toronto and “The rising number of our ing on a Wexner Fellowship) Montreal, Seattle, Memphis summer students is one more ing advanced training in Jew- large, diverse core of Jewish edu- and the Center for the Jewish and Florida—and Israel. example of how Azrieli is mak- ish education available to a cators,” said Dean Schnall. I Future. I

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ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE Einstein PhD Candidate Receives Major Ford Foundation Diversity Fellowship

hristina Medina, a technology degree that would grams and my attendance at graduate student in qualify her to get a job as a several minority conferences, I the Sue Golding Grad- laboratory technician. learned about the disparities uate Division at the “Although I always knew I in my field and in higher edu- CAlbert Einstein College of wanted science to be a part of cation,” she says. Medicine of Yeshiva University, my life, I never fathomed striv- “I realized that there are has been selected to receive a ing for a PhD,” she says. “I did- many people like me, whose 2005 Ford Foundation Diver- n’t even know what one was.” parents chose the work force sity Fellowship. That changed during her over higher education so they The three-year fellowship, sophomore year, when the wouldn’t have to live another which annually supports the chair of biology at St. Francis, day poor, and who lacked studies of approximately 60 Dr. Burt Goldberg, told her educational role models. But pre-doctoral fellows through- that he believed she was capa- with some encouragement, we out the nation conducting ble of pursuing something can overcome that and strive research in a broad range of more than a technical job. for the stars.” disciplines, provides an annual “He told me how a career Ms. Medina adds, “Dream- stipend of $17,000 as well as in science works and he ing the big dream, without $5,000 to the recipient’s insti- encouraged me to major in trepidation, is what led to my tution of study. biology and to set my goals application and admittance to The award recognizes both on attaining a PhD,” recalls several top graduate programs. scholarly competence and the Ms. Medina. That all became possible promise the recipient shows “He said, ‘You’ll feel the because someone—Dr. Gold- for future achievement as a greatest about the accom- berg—cared enough to share scholar, teacher, and researcher plishments that you work the his vision of my potential.” in an institution of higher hardest for,’ and his words Her dream includes en- education. inspired my commitment to couraging others like her, in Ms. Medina will pursue her pursue a doctoral degree in the way that Dr. Goldberg did, doctorate in the laboratory of the biomedical sciences.” with just a few words. Dr. Richard Kitsis, the Dr. In pursuing her new goal, “I understand the power Gerald and Myra Dorros Pro- Christina Medina dreamed of being a lab technician until Ms. Medina applied to take my words will have and I look fessor of Cardiovascular Disease a professor encouraged her to strive for her PhD. part in summer research pro- forward to fulfilling the re- and professor of medicine and grams for underrepresented sponsibility that my represen- of cell biology at Einstein. Her The fellowship is particu- As a freshman at St. Francis students, first at Hunter tation as a minority woman research will focus on an larly special to Ms. Medina, College, in Brooklyn, Ms. College and then at Harvard in science beholds,” Mr. inhibitor of cell death (apop- since she feels strongly about Medina had a dream, but it Medical School. Medina says. Her selection as tosis) in breast cancer and being able to give back some- was not on the scale of the The experiences solidified a Ford Foundation Diversity whether the loss of this pro- day, by teaching and encour- path that led her to Einstein her interest in a career in sci- Fellow recognizes that com- tein can help prevent cancer aging minority students like College of Medicine. Instead, entific research. mitment. I from forming. herself to dream big. she began pursuing a medical “Through the research pro-

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