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Shai Secunda has been appointed Jacob Neusner Professor in the History and Theology of Judaism at Bard College, of Annandaleon-Hudson, N.Y.
Secunda will join the faculty in fall 2016.
He is a specialist in Talmudic and Judaic studies and will teach courses in Jewish studies and other topics in the religion program at Bard.
The position, which is an endowed chair, was created to recognize Neusner’s contributions to the field and to Bard College.
Secunda’s academic interests range from rabbinic and Middle Persian literature to classical Jewish history, the Babylonian Talmud in its Sasanian context, Zoroastrianism, and critical approaches to the study of religion, including gender and religion.
His degrees include a bachelor of rabbinic law from Ner Israel Rabbinical College; a master of liberal arts from Johns Hopkins University; and master of arts and doctoral degrees from Bernard Revel Graduate School, Yeshiva University.
He has taught at universities in Israel and the United States, including the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Yale University, where he was a postdoctoral associate. He previously served as a member of the Martin Buber Society of Fellows at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and lecturer in the university’s comparative religion and Hebrew literature departments. ••• Westwood Metes & Bounds Realty Ltd. has announced its top associates for June:
Top-listing associates were Nina Schultz-Terner, of Lake Hill, N.Y., in the Woodstock office; Amy Levine, of Stone Ridge, N.Y., in the Stone Ridge office; Joan T. Hagedorn, of West Hurley, N.Y., in the West Hurley office; and Ann Jean Semilof, of Kingston, N.Y., in the Kingston office.
Top-selling agents wer Nina Schultz-Terner, of from Lake Hill, in the Woodstock office; Mary Ellen Flemming, of Kerhonkson, N.Y., Colleen Bicknese, of High Falls, N.Y., Hayes Clement, of Kingston, and Stefan I. Bolz, of New Paltz, N.Y., all of the Stone Ridge office; and Jonathan Korn, of Kingston, of the Kingston office.
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