Dear Editor: The Impact of Advice Columns in the Yiddish Press
What draws people to advice columns? Is it the advice, entertainment value, or even just…
Magda Teter
Fordham Provost Stephen Freedman, Global Education Innovator, Dies at 68
University Provost Stephen Freedman, Ph.D., whose commitment to local and global academic partnerships enhanced Fordham’s…
Photo Exhibit Tells Story of Revival
From 1975 to 1983, photographer Chuck Fishman traveled to Poland to document the dwindling remains…
New York Public Library and Fordham Announce Fellowship in Jewish Studies
Fordham University’s Jewish Studies program and the New York Public Library (NYPL) have announced a…
Turkish Student Finds Inspiration in Freedom to Study Other Religions
Mustafa Kilicarslan had never set foot in New York City before he moved here to attend…
McGinley Lecture Discusses Faith in Higher Education
The Great Seal of Fordham is inscribed with the words Sapientia et Doctrina. Wisdom and…
New Jewish Studies Minor Launched
A new interdisciplinary minor in Jewish studies launches this fall, to be taught by faculty…
Integrating Jewish History into General History
If Jews were integrated into European society, culture, economy, and politics, can historians justify confining…
Rejecting Hatred: 50 Years of Catholic Dialogue with Jews and Muslims
It has been 50 years since Nostra aetate, the Vatican II declaration that changed the…
Scholar Shares Little Known History of Hebrew Texts
When Magda Teter, PhD, was young, her father made her aware of the Jewish establishments…