InTouch Week of May 12, 2025

Commencement Speakers Set to Inspire Class of 2025 Students Express Gratitude to Their First Patients During Convocation of Thanks Harnessing Digital Innovations in Ophthalmic Surgery TCDM Hosts Sixth Annual Convocation and Induction Ceremony TCDM’s Fourth Annual Research Day and Poster Competition Recognizes Student Researchers and Faculty Mentors Student Spotlight: Lynne MacFadyen Aspires to Help Others Find Their Voice Student Spotlight: Callie Hollander Finds Her Rhythm in Neuroscience Researchhttps://touroscholar.touro.edu/in_touch/1363/thumbnail.jp

InTouch Week of May 19, 2025

Vikas Grover, Ph.D., CCC-SLP, and Ronnie Myers, D.D.S., Named Healthcare Heroes by Westchester Magazine Annual Louis Del Guercio, M.D., Research Day Showcases Outstanding Surgical Research NYMC Celebrates Homecoming 2025 with Alumni, Students, and Campus Tours Teaching and Learning Symposium Brings Faculty Together to Enrich Their Educational Practice Philip Kuehl, Ph.D., Addresses Drug Development Problem Statements at the Neighborhood Science Seminar Series 185 TCDM Students Don White Coats as They Head to Touro Dental Health Clinics in New York and New Mexico Student Spotlight: David Zuckerman to Address Graduates Before Beginning Neurology Residency at NYUhttps://touroscholar.touro.edu/in_touch/1364/thumbnail.jp

The Shochet: A Memoir of Jewish Life in Ukraine and Crimea (Vol. 2)

Set in Ukraine, Crimea, and Israel, this unique two-volume autobiography offers a fascinating, detailed picture of life in Tsarist Russia and Israel during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Goldenshteyn (1848-1930), a traditional Jew who was orphaned as a young boy and became a shochet (kosher slaughterer) as a young man, is a master storyteller. Folksy, funny, streetwise, and self-confident, he is a keen observer of his surroundings. His accounts are vivid and readable, sometimes stunning in their intensity. The memoir is brimming with information. Goldenshteyn’s adventures shed light on communal life, persecution, family relationships, religious practices and beliefs, social classes, local politics, interactions between Jews and other religious communities, epidemics, poverty, competition for resources, migration, war, technology, modernity and secularization. In chronicling his own life, Goldenshteyn inadvertently tells a bigger story—the story of how a small, oppressed people, among other minority groups, struggled for survival in the massive Russian Empire and in the Land of Israel. Volume two begins in 1873, when Goldenshteyn obtains his first position as a shochet in Slobodze, and it follows him to the Crimea, where he endures 34 years of vicissitudes. In 1913, he fulfills a dream of immigrating to the Land of Israel, hoping to find tranquility in his old age. Instead, he is met with the turbulence of the First World War, as battles rage between the retreating Ottoman Turks and the advancing British forces. Informed by research in Ukrainian, Israeli and American archives and personal interviews with the few surviving individuals who knew Goldenshteyn personally, The Shochet is a magnificent new contribution to Jewish and Eastern European history.https://touroscholar.touro.edu/tup/1048/thumbnail.jp

InTouch Week of February 24, 2025

Medical Students Dance the Night Away at NYMC Formal NYMC T-Shirt Contest Winner NYMC Donates Microscopes to Schools, Enhancing Science Education Furry Friends Bring Comfort to 19 Skyline Lobby Transforming Rehab Care: QI Initiative Recognized for Reducing Length of Stay Faculty Spotlight: From Pupil to Professor: Martin Katzenstein, M.D. \u2778 Student Spotlight: Adiya Katseff’s Scientific Pursuit of Immunological Defensehttps://touroscholar.touro.edu/in_touch/1353/thumbnail.jp