Scholarship
A Yom Kippur prayer book fragment from the Cairo Genizah, circa 11th/ 12th century, National Library of Israel Collection. (Credit: National Library of Israel)
November 24, 2025, 12:08 pm
AI unlocks Cairo Genizah’s hidden world
A new automatic transcription project makes 400,000 medieval fragments fully searchable for the first time.
By Sharon Altshul
Ruth Wisse receives the National Humanities Medal from then-President George W. Bush in Nov. 2007. (Photo by Eric Draper, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons)
May 27, 2025, 5:12 pm
Tikvah weekend headlined by renowned scholar Ruth Wisse
Prior to arriving in Pittsburgh, Harvard emerita professor implores readers to recognize, 'What is absolutely self-evident is what is least evident to many people'
By Adam Reinherz
Richard Weisberg's new book builds on a field he helped pioneer. (Photo courtesy of Cardozo School of Law)
April 9, 2025, 7:45 pm
Law, literature and the Holocaust collide in CMU professor’s new book
Probing the disciplines, and the manners in which each operates, generates an understanding of human endeavors and history
By Adam Reinherz
A still from a humorous video created by Alan Katz to help promote Taylor Allderdice Class of 1973’s attempts to raise money for a new scholarship honoring their graduation 50 years ago. Screen shot by David Rullo.
April 17, 2023, 3:22 pm
‘Know something, do something, be something’ drives Taylor Allderdice class of ’73
“We saw this as an opportunity to come full circle with a sense of gratitude,” Klein said.
By David Rullo
Mikey Butler's graduation from Yeshiva University at the Greater Pittsburgh International Airport with YU Chancellor Rabbi Dr. Norman Lamm. Photo provided by Nina Butler.
January 20, 2022, 2:20 pm
Yeshiva University establishes scholarship in memory of Pittsburgh alum Mikey Butler
“‘I have cystic fibrosis; cystic fibrosis doesn’t have me,’ he said.
By David Rullo
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