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Aharon Dovid Shainberg and William Berman in Hebron Today, it is de rigueur for modern Orthodox student to spend a “gap” year or two studying in yeshivas in Israel after they finish high school, prior to starting their college studies. Ninety years ago, in 1929, two RIETS (Rabbi Isaac Elchanan ...

Model of the Beit Ha-Mikdash at Yeshivas Hakhme Lublin, 1931 Tishah B’Av, the ninth day of the month of Av, marks the destruction of the Beit Ha-Mikdash, the Temple in Jerusalem. Over the millennia, Jews have mourned the loss of the Temple in a myriad of ways. One form of memory and memorial is ...

Did you know that even before the moon landing in 1969, Yeshiva had a “moonrock” of its own? In May 1960, Dr. Irvin Rock, chairman of the experimental psychology department of the Graduate School of Education, simulated the moon on the roof of Stern College. His experiment explained why the moon ...

Leah Adler, Head Librarian, Mendel Gottesman Library The Yeshiva University Library mourns the passing of our colleague Leah Adler, who served as Head Librarian of Hebraica and Judaica at the Mendel Gottesman Library for over thirty years. She was a scholar's librarian who ushered the library into…

Golda Meir at Yeshiva University, November 1963. Yeshiva University Archives Israeli stateswoman Golda Meir’s first documented connection with Yeshiva University was in June 1948, only two weeks after the founding of the State of Israel, an event which the students of Yeshiva celebrated and ...

Coffee for Passover: The Maxwell House Haggadah in the American Jewish Home, 1932 and Beyond Collection of Shulamith Z. Berger Make way for Mrs. Maisel! This year brings a new special edition of the Maxwell House Haggadah, one of the most popular Passover Haggadahs ever published in the United ...

Matt Miller, Associate Professor of English at Stern College for Women, provided insights to his book Collage of Myself: Walt Whitman and the Making of “Leaves of Grass." Based on Miller's hands-on examination of Whitman’s original notebooks, the book stems from a breakthrough in dating sections of…

Office of the Provost and University Libraries present A Celebration of University Authors featuring Disparities and Challenges in Modern Society: A YU Ideas Faculty Symposium with Vera Békés, Assistant Professor of Clinical Psychology, Ferkauf Graduate School of Psychology PTSD: Recovery and ...