In 1983, Italian-Israeli professor Sandra Debenedetti Stow stunned the scholarly world with an explosive article that proposed that Jews introduced pizza to the European diet.
She cited Yehuda …
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By Henry Abramson
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6/12/19
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Graduating seniors at Touro’s Lander Colleges marched into Lincoln Center’s David Geffen Hall for the school’s 45th commencement. In all, 608 graduates were awarded baccalaureate …
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6/5/19
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Every year before Purim, my inbox and social media fill up with dire exhortations from rabbis and yeshivas warning against the dangers of celebratory excess — as if drunkenness on the …
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By Henry Abrahmson
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3/20/19
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That the scourge of anti-Semitism remains uncured does not surprise Elyakim Rubinstein, former vice president of Israel’s Supreme Court, who said that many years ago “there was a notion …
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By Ed Weintrob
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3/13/19
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Touro College Graduate School of Social Work students pursuing careers in mental health networked and learned from top Orthodox professionals in the field at the 22nd annual conference of NEFESH …
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1/31/19
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The flagship campus of Touro’s Lander College of Arts Sciences on Avenue J in Flatbush was renamed in memory of Simon and Lenke Roth, parents of donor Dr. Alex Rovt.
Dr. Robert …
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1/22/19
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Alumni of Touro’s Lander College For Men are paying it forward by sharing their professional experiences with current students. …
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1/3/19
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Opposition to vaccination on political and religious grounds has been swaying parents across the country to refuse immunizations for their children. Recently this has resulted in two of the largest …
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By Dr. Alan Kadish, president of the Touro College and University System, and Dr. Edward C. Halperin, chancellor and chief executive officer of Touro’s New York Medical College
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12/12/18
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Israeli tech guru Hillel Fuld told the 37th commencement of the Touro College Division of Graduate Studies that “the core of business is passion and giving.”
Diplomas were conferred on …
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7/18/18
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Touro College’s Graduate School of Jewish Studies (GSJS) will launch a Ph.D. program in Jewish Studies in September 2018, Touro’s first doctoral course of study in the arts and sciences. …
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7/4/18
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