YESHIVAUNIVERSITY• VOLUME8 NO. 10 • December 2003
www.yu.edu/news/publications
YUToday
I N S I D E
A
midst the squeals of children’s voices andlively melodies of musicians, threegenerations of Stern Collegefor Women alumnae and theirfamilies gathered at the PuckBuilding in trendy SoHo tocommemorate the school’s50th Anniversary with aFamily Day event on Nov. 2.Featuring a variety of games, food, and entertain-ment, including face painters,balloon sculptors, and a stiltwalker, Family Day not onlycelebrated an institution, butit also lauded the alumnae,faculty, and administratorsresponsible for Stern’s success.Stern College and its JubileeCommittee, co-chaired bySharon Herzfeld, MD, ’88S andDr. Susan Ungar-Mero, MD,’87S, will host a series of cele-bratory events during the2004 academic year.Founded through the gen-erosity and leadership of thelate Max Stern, Stern Collegeenrolls approximately 1,000students and boasts the largest Jewish studies department of its kind in North America.Stern College for Women is oneof the last all-women under-graduate schools in the US.The Jubilee celebrates thethousands of Stern graduatesfrom the first four decadeswho brought their keen senseof mission and values to build-ing their communities, profes-sions, and families. It also cel-ebrates the graduates of thepast decade, who are shapingthe future of Jewish women intheir communities and theworld.“The Jubilee will celebrate agreat idea, Stern College, with
THE POETRYOF NANOSCIENCE
Dr. Anatoly Frankel
page 5
$2.25 MILLIONGIFT
Cardozo to set upHolocaust center
page 8
FASHION TOFORTUNE
YUM wins NEH grant for exhibit
page 6
Left to right: Joan Apple, SCW director of development,and Drs. Sharon Herzfeld and Susan Ungar-Mero, Jubileeco-chairpersons, at the Puck Building on Family Day.
I
n two town hall meetingson November 4 at theMidtown and Wilf cam-puses, President RichardM. Joel addressed faculty, stu-dents, administrators, andstaff on an array of issuesimportant to university lifeand the community at large.The sessions, the first of their kind for YU, underscoredthe president’s stated desire topromote an environment thatis open, direct, and evolving.At both locations, the pres-ident opened with a brief overview followed by 40 min-utes of questions and answersthat covered, among otherthings, campus renovations,student life, community out-reach, faculty support, and theuniversity’s fiscal stability.“So many of you have beengenerous in teaching me andguiding me as I build my newadministration,” the presidentsaid. “I want to create a part-nership with you to set goalsand add richness to the cur-riculum.”He expressed his hope touse the town hall forum “as aplatform to build relationshipswith my office.”To that end, he announcedhe will have evening hours inwhich students can sign up tomeet with him. In addition,he will host regular “brownbag lunches” for universitystaff, faculty, and students andmore student shabbatonim.In response to a concern bysenior Shoshana Hulkowerthat Stern lacks communityleadership training, President Joel said he is working to cre-ate a “cadre of graduate fel-lows,” a year of service inwhich seniors would work atYU after graduation.
continued on page 3continued on page 3
President Joel Hosts FirstTown Hall MeetingStern at 50 Looks to the Future
Dean Karen Bacon Honored With First PresidentialMedallion at 79th Hanukkah Dinner and Convocation
B
raving an early winter
snow storm, more than
700 Yeshiva Universityleaders gathered Sun-day evening (Dec. 14) atManhattan’s Waldorf-Astoriafor YU’s 79th Hanukkah Din-ner and Convocation. Thecombined events recognizedprominent philanthropists, re-corded the success of YU’s$400 million capital cam-paign, and unveiled severalmajor gifts.Highlighting the Convo-cation was President RichardM. Joel’s presentation to KarenBacon, Dr. Monique C. KatzDean of Stern College forWomen, of the University’sfirst Presidential Medallion forher dedication to Stern.President Joel also conferredhonorary doctorates upon:Ruth L. Gottesman, professoremerita of pediatrics at AlbertEinstein College of Medicine; J. Ezra Merkin, managing part-ner of Gabriel Capital Groupand chairman of YU’s invest-ment and Israel committees;Marcia Robbins-Wilf, a notedreading expert and foundingmember of the Stern Collegeboard of directors; and Josh S.Weston, the former chairmanand chief executive officer of Automatic Data Processing,Inc. and a chairman emeritusof the board of directors of Sy
continued on page 4
Marjorie Diener Blenden, Stern board chairman, and President Richard M. Joel applaud SCW DeanKaren Bacon on receiving the Presidential Medallion.
Elchanan Adler
‘95AG,R, RIETSrosh yeshiva, Talmud lecturer, andEva, Morris, and Jack K. Rubin Pro- fessor of Rabbinics, coedited
Or HaMizrach
(Mizrachi/HaPoel Ha-Mizrachi - Religious Zionists of America) with Nathaniel Helfgot YH,’85Y,AG,R.
William Arsenio,
PhD, FGS associ-ate professor of psychology anddirector of its developmental psy-chology doctorate program, willbe a Distinguished Speaker ata conference on emotion regula-tion in families at Texas A & MUniversity in February.
Harvey J. Babich,
PhD, professor of biology, coauthored a study,“In vitro cytotoxic and anti-inflam-matory effects of myrrh oil on hu-man gingival fibroblasts and epith-elial cells,”
PubMed
, National Lib-rary of Medicine.
Rabbi Benjamin Blech
‘54Y,R,professor of Talmud, authored
Taking Stock: A Spiritual Guide to Rising Above Life’s Financial Ups and Downs
(American Man-agement Association). The bookoffers practical advice on how tocombat the financial blues by mar-shaling one’s spiritual resources.
J. David Bleich,
PhD, Herbert andFlorence Tenzer Professor of JewishLaw and Ethics, CSL, RIETS,published “Palliation of Pain: AJewish Perspective” and “MedicalMalpractice,”
Selected Topics in Jewish Medical Ethics
(Rosner,Goldstein, Reichman, eds., Den-mark 2003); and “Mitzvot in thePolar Regions and in Earth Orbit,”
Tradition
, Fall ’02; and lectured atUniversity of Haifa, Israel; Lauder Chorev Midrasha, Frankfurt amMain; and Center for JewishHistory, NYC.
Richard Caputo,
PhD, WSSW pro- fessor, coauthored “Health and Fe-male Self-Employment,” whichappeared in the
Journal of Small Business Management
in summer 2003.
Cris Cristofaro,
YC sculpture andart instructor, exhibited pieces of his artwork—sculpture consistingof paper bags, rope, and string—in five windows at the corner of Broadway and East Tenth Street,through October 13.
Jonathan Fast,
DSW, WSSW assis-tant professor, published “When Isa Mental Health Clinic Not aMental Health Clinic? Drug Trial Abuses Reach Social Work” in
Social Work,
summer 2003, and“How Becoming Mediators Affects Aggressive Students” (which hecoauthored) in
Children in Schools.
Also, Dr. Fast was invited to jointhe Melchoir Book Award Com-mittee (yearly award for a bookdealing with progressive religiousissues) and nominated to sit on theboard of directors of the Center for Hope, an agency in Darien, CT.
Joshua A. Fishman,
PHD,Distinguished University ResearchProfessor Emeritus of Social Sci-ences, authored “Empirical Explor-ations of Two Popular Assump-tions: Inter-Polity Perspective onthe Relationships between Ling-uistic Heterogeneity, Civil Strife,and Per Capita Gross NationalProduct,”
Sociolinguistics:The Essential Readings
(Paulston, Tucker eds., Blackwell Publishing 2003).
Sheldon Gelman,
PhD, Dorothyand David I. Schachne Dean, WSSW, attended a meeting of theSt. Louis Group, a gathering of 40social work deans from the American Association of Univer-sities (AAU) and Carnegie ResearchExtensive Universities, hosted by Washington University’s George Warren Brown School of Social Work. They examined ways toincrease the capacity of deans toimplement a significant researchagenda on campuses.
Margaret Gibelman,
DSW, pro- fessor and doctoral program direc-tor, Wurzweiler School of Social Work received a grant from theOffice of Research Integrity at theNational Institutes of Health tolead an investigation of whether,and to what extent, universities inthe US educate students in themental health disciplines inresponsible research conduct. Theresearch team includes TerryDiLorenzo, PhD, assistant professor of psychology at Stern College;Nigel Bark, MD, associate profes-sor of clinical psychiatry at AlbertEinstein College of Medicine, and Alison Link, a PhD student at Wurzweiler who is assisting in theresearch.
Rabbi Scott Goldberg,
instructor at AGS, presented “IntegratingLiterary Devices in Teaching Read-ing Comprehension in Chumash”at the NJ Association of Jewish DaySchools’ “The Art of TeachingLimudei Kodesh in Multi-Level Class-rooms” conference in September.
Arthur Hyman,
PHD, BRGS dean,participated in the EleventhInternational Conference of theSociety of Judaeo-Arabic Studies,held at the State University of St.Petersburg, Russia. He read apaper, “The Influence of Averroeson Late Medieval Jewish Phil-osophy,” at the opening session of the conference, and chaired a ses-sion on “Halakhic and LiteraryDocuments.”
Jay Ladin,
PhD, has been namedoccupant of the new David andRuth Gottesman Chair in English atSCW.
Edith Lubetski
‘68B, SCW profes-sor and Hedi Steinberg Libraryhead librarian, chaired a session atthe Society of Biblical LiteratureInternational Meeting, “Languageand Linguistics,” held in Cam-bridge, England, last July.
Joseph Luders,
PhD, has beendesignated the inaugural occupantof the David and Ruth GottesmanChair in Political Science at SCW.
Susan Mason,
PhD, WSSW profes-sor, presented “Belief Systems andTreatment Behaviors for Patientswith Schizophrenia” at the 14thInternational Symposium for theTreatment of Schizophrenia, inMelbourne, Australia.
Joanna Mellor,
DSW, wasappointed assistant professor, WSSW. Her research interestsinclude social welfare policy, edu-cation, administration, and geron-tology. She taught at Hunter College School of Social Work,CUNY, and was most recently vicepresident for information services,Lighthouse International, a not- for-profit offering resources onvision impairment.
Daniel Pollack,
JD, and
Susan E.Mason,
PhD, previously WSSWassociate professors, have beenmade full professors. Prof. Pollackwas appointed to the editorialboard of the
Journal of Social Work Values and Ethics.
Alvin I. Schiff,
PhD, Irving I. StoneDistinguished Professor of JewishEducation, AGS, gave lectures atCong. Torah Ohr, Boca Raton,Hebrew Academy of NassauCounty (NY), and Young Israel of Oceanside (NY). Also, he authoredtwo Hebrew essays for the MillatHaparshah program sponsored bythe National Center for theHebrew Language, of which he ispresident, on www.ivrit.org.
Peninnah Schram,
associate pro- fessor of speech and drama, SCW,is author of “Rabbi AbrahamJoshua Heschel of Apt onListening,” an essay that was pub-lished in the anthology
Best JewishWriting 2003
(Jossey-Bass, 2003).She had three reviews published inthe fall 2003 issue of
Jewish Book World
. Also, she was a guest lectur-er at the Occupational TherapyProgram at SUNY DownstateMedical Center, where she spokeon “Communication with a Focuson Listening and Storytelling”; andat the Columbia University Schoolof Social Work, where she spoke on“Ethnography and Storytelling.”
Ellen Schrecker,
PhD, professor of history and an expert onMcCarthyism, lectured at theHarry S. Truman Library, Indepen-dence, MO; American Museum of Natural History, NYC; and SmithCollege, Northampton, MA.
David Strug,
PhD,
Gertrude
2YUToday
December 2003
Faculty News
YESHIVAUNIVERSITYRonald P. Stanton,
ChairmanYU Board of Trustees
Richard M. Joel
President
Dr. Norman Lamm
Chancellor
Peter L. Ferrara
Director of Communications and Public Affairs
Joshua L. Muss, Chairman, Board of Directors,Yeshiva College; Marjorie Diener Blenden, Chairman, Board of Directors, Stern College for Women; Bernard L.Madoff, Chairman, Board of Directors, Sy Syms School of Business; Robert A.Belfer, Chairperson, Board of Overseers, Albert Einstein College of Medicine; EarleI. Mack, Chairman, Board of Directors, Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law;Robert Schwalbe, Chair, Board of Governors, Wurzweiler School of Social Work;Mordecai D. Katz, Chairman, Board of Directors, Bernard Revel Graduate Schoolof Jewish Studies; Katherine Sachs, Chair, Board of Governors, Ferkauf GraduateSchool of Psychology; Moshael J. Straus, Chairman, Board of Directors, AzrieliGraduate School of Jewish Education and Administration; Julius Berman, Chair-man, Board of Trustees, (affiliate) Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary; EricaJesselson, Chairperson, Board of Directors, (affiliate) Yeshiva University Museum.
Board listings as of Nov. 4, 2003
YESHIVAUNIVERSITYTODAYHedy Shulman Kelly Berman
Editor Associate Editor
Norman Eisenberg
ManagingEditor
Doug Dayhoff
Graphic Designer
Jerry Bergman, Esther Finkle, June Glazer,Norman Goldberg, Cara Huzinec, Peter Robertson, V. Jane Windsor
Contributors
www.yu.edu/news/publications
Yeshiva University Today
is published monthly during the academic year by the Yeshiva University Department of Communications and Public Affairs, 401 FurstHall, 500 West 185th St., New York, NY 10033-3201 (212-960-5285). It is distrib-uted free on campus to faculty, staff, and students. © Yeshiva University 2002
YUToday
VOLUME 8 • NUMBER 10
Rutkove Sanders,
DSW, and
JoanBeder,
DSW, WSSW associate pro- fessors, and
Heidi Heft LaPorte,
DSW, WSSW assistant professor,presented “The Process Log: ATeaching Tool to Enhance StudentSelf-Awareness,” at the III Taller International de Trabajo Social,Havana, Cuba in September. Also,Dr. Strug and
Susan E. Mason,
PhD, WSSW professor, and FrancesEicholz-Heller ‘03W presented “AnExploratory Investigation of theImpact of the Year of 9/11 amongOlder Hispanic Immigrants in New York City.”
Hayim Tawil,
PhD, YC instructor in Hebrew, published “Paved withLove (Cant 3,10d): A New Inter-pretation” in
Zietschriffit Für die Alttestamentlichi Wiessenschaft,
2003.
Jeffrey Weisburg,
PhD, is the newDoris Kukin Professor of Molecular Biology at SCW. A, AECOM Albert Einstein College of Medicine • AG AzrieliGraduate School of Jewish Education and Administration • BG,BGSS Belfer Institute for Advanced Biomedical Sciences • B, BRGSBernard Revel Graduate School of Jewish Studies • BSJM BelzSchool of Jewish Music • CTI Cantorial Training Institute • C, CSLCardozo School of Law • F, FGS Ferkauf Graduate School of Psychology • I, IBC Isaac Breuer College of Hebraic Studies • J,JSS James Striar School of General Jewish Studies • MSDCS MaxStern Division of Communal Services • Y, MYP YeshivaProgram/Mazer School of Talmudic Studies • SBMP Stone BeitMidrash Program • R, RIETS Rabbi Isaac Elchanan TheologicalSeminary • S, SCW Stern College for Women • SG Sue GoldingGraduate Division of Medical Sciences • SB, SSSB Sy Syms Schoolof Business • T, TI Teachers Institute • T, TIW Teachers Institute for Women • W, WSSW Wurzweiler School of Social Work • Y, YC Yeshiva College • YH, YUHS Yeshiva University High Schools(MSTA The Marsha Stern Talmudical Academy) (SWHSG SamuelH. Wang Yeshiva University High School for Girls)
Key to School Abbreviations
Shulamith Berger,
curator of spe-cial collections at the MendelGottesman Library, authored“Eat, Mama, it’s Kosher: Portrait of the American Housewife in Advertisements in the New York Yiddish Press,” in
Yiddish, Yivo-Bleter New Series, Vol. IV: YiddishFolklore
(YIVO Institute for JewishResearch, NY 2003).FGS clinical psychology student
Todd Bresnick
was awarded aCouncil on Spiritual Practices (CSP) William James Award for his disser-tation proposal, “Spatial andTemporal Continuities in Phen-omenal Experience in Fringe andDifferent States of Consciousness.”He received the maximum $1,500award for his dissertation work,which was sited by CSP for its con-tribution to the study of primaryreligious experience.
Ruth Bigman
, MSW, former WSSW assistant director of fieldinstruction, was made WSSWdirector of admissions, with
Donna Harris,
MSW, taking over Ruth’s previous role.
Chaya Sara (Hallie) Cantor
, HediSteinberg Library staff assistant,edited “Illuminating Life’s Journey,”translated by Rabbi ElchononLeshes and published by Otsar Sifrey Lubavitch.
Eleanor Chiger
(YUM office man-ager) and husband Rabbi JacobChiger were honored by TempleIsrael of Long Beach at its annualdinner in June. They were recog-nized for their extensive commit-ment to the congregation and theJewish community.
Jennifer Gottesman
‘03W wonthe Student Humanitarian Awardat the Hospital for Sick Children,Toronto, her hometown. Jennifer,who graduated from the WSSWBlock Program in July, did her fieldwork at the hospital.
Jeffrey M. Rosengarten
has beenpromoted to associate vice presi-dent, administrative services.President Richard M. Joel and VicePresident for University Life HillelDavis said the promotion was “inrecognition of Jeff’s thirty years of successful administrative service tothe university students, faculty,and staff.”
Jeff Socol
YH,’85Y, senior associatedirector of facilities management,and wife Rivka (Weitz) YH’87 werehonored by Young Israel of KewGardens Hills. Steven Socol YH’86Yand wife Leslie were also honored.
Jeremiah Unterman,
PhD, Assoc-iation of Modern Orthodox DaySchools and Yeshiva High Schools(AMODS) director, MSDCS,pre-sented “The Relationship betweenEthics and Ritual in the Prophets”and “The New Day SchoolCurriculum in Eretz Yisrael/-Religious Zionism,” CAJE Conf-erence for Jewish Day School andEarly Childhood Educators, HofstraUniversity, in June. AMODS co-sponsored the gathering.
December 2003
YUToday3
People
a strong network of friendsand Stern alums, and to investin building an even brighterfuture for women’s educa-tion,” said Karen Bacon, PhD,Dr. Monique C. Katz Dean of Stern College and a 1964 Sternalumna.Other Jubilee events willinclude a lecture series at theYU Museum from February toDecember 2004 featuringspeakers such as DavidMakovsky, senior fellow anddirector of Project on America,Israel, and the Peace Process atthe Washington Institute, andSylvia Barach Fishman, a 1964Stern alumna who will discusswomen and Halakhah (Jewishlaw). A Jubilee dinner isplanned for 2004, and analumnae and friends day willtake place at the Tisch FamilyBiblical Zoo in Jerusalem inMay 2004.An international confer-ence, “Between Rashi andMaimonides: Themes in Med-ieval Jewish Law, Thought,and Culture,” co-sponsored bythe Rebecca Ivry Departmentof Jewish Studies at Stern andthe Leonard and BeatriceDiener Institute of Jewish Lawat YU’s Benjamin N. CardozoSchool of Law, is planned forNovember 2004.“An exhibition at the YUMuseum chronicling thegrowth of Stern and its impor-tance in advancing Jewishwomen’s education will beunveiled in fall of 2004,” Dr.Ungar-Mero said. “I am indebt-edto Stern because it gave melife-long tools to succeed. The Jubilee is a great way to bringback alumnae and to thank awonderful institution.”
Dean Karen Bacon watches the magic show at Family Day withher granddaughters Shira, to her right, and Aliza, (center).Dr. Sheldon Socol (right), vice president of business affairs, andhis wife, Ginger, with son Jeff (left), senior associate director of facilities management, and grandchildren.
STERN 50TH ANNIVERSARY
Continued from page 1
Family Day reflected the remarkable intergenerational character of YU, particu-larly Stern alumni and students. It marked the beginning of a year of celebratoryevents to commemorate the founding of Stern College and to set the stage for future growth and excellence. An exciting lecture series by Stern alumnae and other distinguished speakers,planned February-December 2004, will cover topics of Jewish political and socialinterest.The series includes a presentation February 29, under the Dr. Marcia Robbins- Wilf Scholar-in-Residence Program, by
David Makovsky
, senior fellow and director of the Project on America, Israel, and the Peace Process at the WashingtonInstitute;
Malcolm Hoenlein
, executive vice chairman of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations; and
Gary Rosenblatt
,editor and publisher of
The Jewish Week
; a lecture titled “Breaking New Ground:Orthodox Women in the 21st Century” by
Shani Taragin
, lecturer at MidreshetLindenbaum, and
Rivka Lubitch
, an Ohr Torah Stone legal advocate for womenseeking a
get
(halakhic writ of divorce); and will end with a lecture by
SylviaBarack Fishman
’64S, assistant professor of contemporary Jewish life and sociolo-gy of American Jews in the Near Eastern and Judaic studies department at BrandeisUniversity and codirector of the Hadassah International Research Institute onJewish Women. She will speak on challenges facing the contemporary OrthodoxJewish family.Israel alumnae and students will gather next May for a celebration at the
TischFamily Biblical Zoo
in Jerusalem; and a
Jubilee Dinner
is planned for next year aswell. Celebrations will culminate with a retrospective exhibit at Yeshiva UniversityMuseum next fall, highlighting Stern’s history, growth, pioneering philosphy, and future, through photography, memorabilia, and text.Other events: a
Jubilee Back-to-School Day
in December 2003; a youngleadership seminar in spring 2004; and an international conference in November 2004,
“Between Rashi and Maimonides: Themes in Medieval Jewish Law,Thought, and Culture,”
sponsored by Stern’s Rebecca Ivry Department of JewishStudies and the Leonard and Beatrice Diener Institute of Jewish Law at YU’sBenjamin N. Cardozo School of Law.For more information, please contact Joan Apple, director of development for Stern, at 212-340-7863 or apple@yu.edu;or the Office of University Alumni Affairs at 212-960-5373 or alumdesk@yu.edu. Check the YU Web site frequently for Stern Jubilee news and events (
www.yu.edu/news
or
www.yu.edu/sternjubilee
to register for lectures).
The Stern Jubilee: A Year of Celebration
In remarks uptown, headded that such fellowshipswould afford individual op-portunities to impact universi-ty life and broaden their per-spectives before pursuing doc-torates. One possible initiativewould be a graduate seminaron Jewish institutional leader-ship, he said.President Joel added thatthe Max Stern Division of Communal Services (MSDCS)can help students breathe lifeinto Torah Umadda and liveup to their destiny.On long-standing facultyissues, President Joel ack-nowledged that some profes-sors were overworked andunderpaid. MortonLowengrub,vice president for academicaffairs, working with variousdeans, has begun exploringbest practices for recruitingand retaining both junior andsenior faculty.President Joel urged hisaudience to “keep my feet tothe fire, and push me all youcan to work together to havemore richness in the curricu-lum and to make YUa place of intellectual fervorand ferment.”
TOWN HALL MEETING
Continued from page 1
NEW ASSISTANT DEAN OF STUDENTS
Alumnus Bradley Karasik has joinedthe staff of Yeshiva College as itsassistant dean of students inSeptember. Mr. Karasik headed youthservices and programming atNational Council of Young Israelbefore coming to YU. He received amaster’s degree in higher educationadministration from New YorkUniversity in 1998 and a bachelor’sdegree in sociology from YC in 1996. Mr. Karasik lives inKew Gardens Hills, Queens, with his wife, Adina, and their two daughters, Gila Miriam and Chana.
Search History:
Result 00 of 00
00 results for result for
p.
More From This User
Notes
Load more
