Dr. Raymond Scheindlin, professor of Medieval Hebrew Literature and director of the JTS Shalom Spiegel Institute of Medieval Hebrew Poetry, will give a lecture and reading at the Poets House on May 14. His lecture is based on his newest book, The Song of the Distant Dove: Halevi's Pilgrimage (Oxford University Press).

Dr. Leonard Levin, assistant professor of Jewish Philosophy, recently translated The Classic Jewish Philosophers from Saadia to the Renaissance and Philosophy of the Bible as Foundation for Jewish Culture, both by Eiezer Schweid. He also translated the forthcoming The Reasons for the Commandments in Jewish Though From the Bible to the Renaissance by Isaac Henemann (Academic Studies Press, 2008).

Dr. Levin's newest book is Seeing With Both Eyes: Ephraim Luntshitz and the Polish Jewish Renaissance (Brill, Summer, 2008). In addition, he is editor of the English translation of The Idea of Modern Jewish Culture (Academic Studies Press, 2008).

Rabbi Michael B. Greenbaum, vice chancellor and assistant professor of Educational Administration, was named one of Newsweek's "Top 50 Influential Rabbis of America." In addition, Ramah: A Paradigm," an essay by Rabbi Greenbaum, will appear in the forthcoming volume of Ramah at 60.

Dr. Edna Nahshon, an associate professor of Hebrew whose specialty is Jewish theater and performance, has received support for her forthcoming book, Jews and Shoes (August 2008) from the Littauer Foundation.

Dr. Boaz Tarsi, associate professor of music, has just published a paper entitled "On a Particular Case of Tonal, Modal, and Motivic Components in Sources for Liturgical Music of East and West European Origins" in Iggud—Selected Articles in Jewish Studies.

His paper, "Music Theory as an Expression of Musical and Extra-Musical Views Reflected in Leib Glantz's Liturgical Settings," is included in the forthcoming book Leib Glantz, The Man Who Spoke to God (Tel Aviv: Institute for Jewish Liturgical Music).

Dr. Burton Visotzky, Nathan and Janet Appleman Professor of Midrash and Interreligious Studies, has just published his first novel, A Delightful Compendium of Consolation: A Fabulous Tale of Romance, Adventure and Faith in the Medieval Mediterranean (Ben Yehuda Press, March 2008).

Dr. Alan Mintz, Chana Kekst Professor of Hebrew Literature and chair of the Department of Hebrew Language, has received a grant from the Littauer Foundation in support for An Anthology of American Hebrew Literature, his forthcoming book which he is co-editing with Yaron Peleg.

Everyday Jews: Scenes From a Vanished Life, (Yale University Press), edited by Dr. David Roskies, Sol and Evelyn Henkind Professor of Yiddish Literature, is available for purchase.

Dr. Anne Lapidus Lerner, assistant professor of Jewish Literature and the director and founder of the Jewish Women's Studies Program, has authored Eternally Eve: Images of Eve in the Hebrew Bible, Midrash, and Modern Jewish Poetry  The book is available for purchase.

Dr. David Kraemer, Joseph J. and Dora Abbell Librarian and Professor of Talmud and Rabbinics, recently published Jewish Eating and Identity Through the Ages (Routledge Press). The book is a colorful history of Jewish eating that gives the reader more than a taste of how expressive and crucial eating choices have been since the beginning of time.