The 19th century Scottish historian Thomas Carlyle coined the moniker for the discipline of economics as “the dismal science” but then again, he never got to meet Michael Szenberg. With his irrepressible good cheer and upbeat, can-do attitude, this leading economist a frum Jew with Gerrer roots who serves as honorary chair of the economics and business departments at Touro’s Lander College of Arts & Sciences in Brooklyn is the very antithesis of dismal. He even recently coauthored a book with his longtime collaborator, Lall Ramrattan, that uses the dual lenses of Judaism and economics to explore one of his favorite topics: Happiness.
In Memoriam: Frances Degen Horowitz, President of The Graduate Center from 1991 to 2005
Frances Degen Horowitz
The Graduate Center community deeply mourns the passing of Past President and Professor Emerita
Frances Degen Horowitz, who died on March 15 at age 88. A prominent child psychologist, Horowitz served as The Graduate Center’s president from 1991 to 2005 and remained a member of the faculty until her retirement in 2010. She is widely admired for having the conviction and determination to move The Graduate Center from its original space in an office building on 42
nd Street to its current location in the landmark former home of the B. Altman & Company department store at 34
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“The International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance(IHRA) unites governments and experts to strengthen, advance and promote Holocaust education, research and remembrance and to uphold the commitments
to the 2000 Stockholm Declaration. The IHRA (formerly the Task Force for International Cooperation on Holocaust Education, Remembrance and Research, or ITF) was initiated in 1998 by former Swedish Prime Minister Göran Persson. Today the IHRA’s membership consists of 34 member
House passes joint resolution to remove ERA deadline
The House on Wednesday passed a joint resolution that would remove a deadline for states to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment, after a recent federal court ruling said the deadline for the ERA expired long ago.
Proponents of the ERA believe the court ruling signaled that it’s now up to Congress to validate their argument that the ERA has already been ratified and should be published as the Constitution’s 28th Amendment. But opponents say Congress cannot retroactively change its imposed deadline decades after it expired and blast the vote as a political stunt.
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