Touro College Launches Ph.D. Program in Jewish Studies
Touro College’s Graduate School of Jewish Studies (GSJS) will launch a Ph.D. program in Jewish Studies in September 2018. The program will be Touro’s first doctoral level course of study in the arts and sciences, and will build on Touro’s highly-regarded master’s program in Jewish Studies.
The Tech-Savvy Rabbi
Tech-savvy and Yeshiva don’t often show up in the same sentence.
Alumni Spotlight: Avraham Groll
Avraham Groll is a 2016 graduate of Touro’s Graduate School Of Jewish Studies with a MA in Judaic Studies. He is the Director of JewishGen.org, a non-profit organization affiliated with the Museum of Jewish Heritage devoted to helping people research their Jewish roots, connect with relatives, and learn what it means to be part of the Jewish people. Avraham lives in Passaic, New Jersey with his wife and family.
Division of Graduate Studies, Commencement 2016
More than 1,000 master’s degree recipients were honored at the Touro College Division of Graduate Studies (DGS) Commencement Ceremony at Lincoln Center in New York City on June 16.
7 Tips for Teachers, from Rabbi Dr. Shmuel Klammer
Veteran educator Rabbi Dr. Shmuel (Stuart) Klammer, who earned his Ed.D. in Curriculum and Teaching from Columbia University, is currently an adjunct professor at the Graduate School of Jewish Studies and Lander College for Men. Previously the principal of The Hebrew Academy of Long Beach and The Maimonides School, he currently serves as Head of School at Shulamith in Brooklyn. His GSJS alumni have earned successful placements in schools such as HAFTR, DRS, Darchei Noam, Lander College for Men, and more; and in shuls all over the country from Philadelphia to Queens, Los Angeles to Monsey.
The Rockin' Rabbi
When Rabbi Leonard Garner retired after a four-decade-long career in healthcare as a Medicaid specialist, he decided that what he really wanted to do was study Jewish history.
Q & A with Professor Maya Katz
Maya Balakirsky Katz, PhD, is Professor of Art History at the Lander College for Women of Touro College and on the faculty of Touro’s Graduate School of Jewish Studies. She earned her master’s and doctorate in art history at Bryn Mawr College. She is editor of Revising Dreyfus (Brill Press, 2013), co-editor of Images: A Journal of Jewish Art and Visual Culture, and the author of The Visual Culture of Chabad (Cambridge University Press, 2010); her book Drawing the Iron Curtain: Jews and the Golden Age of Soviet Animation is forthcoming with Rutgers University Press. In this interview, we spoke to Professor Balakirsky Katz about her undergraduate experience at Touro, her inspiration and motivation to write, and why she’d love to gossip with Valentina Brumberg.
The Hanukah Symbolism
As Jews around the world celebrate again Hanukah, the festival of lights, it is well to ponder a bit on the significance of this holiday. Over the lifespan of the Jewish people there have been renewed attempts to expel Jews from the stage of history.
Kristallnacht, Then and Now
Having again commemorated Kristallnacht, the large-scale Nazi orchestrated pogrom in Germany, on November 9, 1938, that targeted all remaining Jewish small businesses and Jewish homes, torched hundreds of synagogues, and sent over 20,000 Jews to concentration camps—let us reflect on the underlying causes that led to this horrific event and the implications for other horrific events of our days.
'They Care—and Care That Their Students Care, Too'
Ira Bedzow is a triple threat. In addition to being an ordained rabbi, an accomplished scholar and a published author, he holds three advanced degrees.