Jeffrey Kress, the provost of the Jewish Theological Seminary, will step down and return to his faculty position as the Dr. Bernard Heller professor of Jewish education at the end of the academic year.

Chabad at Columbia celebrated a Torah completion on Oct. 8 after a scribe finished writing the first five books of the Hebrew Bible on a parchment scroll.

University President Jennifer Mnookin addressed the “terrible recent news” of the Cornell University sexual assault case in her second University Senate plenary on Friday, asserting Columbia’s commitment to building and sustaining a culture of sexual respect.