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Join us on Monday, January 25, 2021 at 7:30 p.m. and hear Joanne Jacobson, Professor Emerita of English and Former Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, Yeshiva College, discuss her book, Every Last Breath. When Jacobson's writing about her mother’s respiratory illness was interrupted by her own ...

Rescue Children, Inc. home in Schirmeck,Hanukah, 1946Yeshiva University Archives The holiday of Hanukah, the Festival of Lights, celebrates the re-dedication of the Temple in Jerusalem by the Maccabees after its desecration by King Antiochus Epiphanes and the miracle of a day’s worth of oil burning…

Yeshiva University Archives,Central Relief Committee Collection, 26/4 The Central Relief Committee (CRC) issued a Thanksgiving appeal for Jewish War Sufferers in 1916, one example of the CRC’s fundraising efforts in its many years of work on behalf of Jews trapped between the warring sides during…

On Tuesday, December 8, 2020 at 7:30PM via Zoom, Chana Stiefel ’90SCW will trace the trajectory of her career in the presentation From Stern to Scholastic: A Journey in Children’s Publishing. The author of more than 25 books for children, Chana Stiefel has written My Name is Wakawakaloch!, with ...

Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks, former Chief Rabbi of the United Hebrew Congregations of the British Commonwealth, died on November 7, 2020. Rabbi Sacks, a noted scholar, writer, and lecturer, had a long-term connection to Yeshiva University and to Rabbi Dr. Norman Lamm, the University’s recently ...

On Tuesday, November 17, 2020, Rabbi Allen Schwartz, Raymond J. Greenwald Chair in Jewish Studies, will discuss his new book at 7:30PM via Zoom. In Conflict & Resolution in the Early Prophets, Rabbi Schwartz compiles, categorizes, and explains many violations of Biblical law. In each case, he…

Yeshiva University Libraries present a series of book talks by two distinguished faculty members and an accomplished alumna this fall semester 2020. Rona Milch Novick, Dean of Azrieli Graduate School of Jewish Education and Administration, will speak on her children's book, Mommy, Can You Stop the…

Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Chief Justice of Harmonia, at Cardozo School of Law, 1995 “Oyez, oyez, oyez! The International Constitutional Court of Harmonia is now in session,” Chief Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg presiding. If you haven’t heard of Harmonia, you’re not alone: Harmonia was a construct, an ...