As many instructors at Yeshiva University know by now, most students can only be expected to have all the assigned books for their classes some 10-15 business days into the semester, to allow time for shipping from various book websites. Fortunately, there is an extraordinarily simple answer to this problem: send out the class syllabi earlier.
Unless you’re Hermione Granger and are in possession of a time-turner, you had a tough choice to make last Thursday at 2:45PM. Among the many events to choose from were a lecture from a candidate for professor of American History, a special panel on teaching science in a Torah institution with Dr. Feit and Rabbi Tendler, and a Jewish Studies colloquium with visiting talmudist Isaiah Gafni.