YU News

L-R. Pietro Di Donato, Ralph Ellison, David Fleisher, Philip RothDid you know that Philip Roth, who died yesterday at age 85, spoke at Yeshiva University in 1962, as part of Yeshiva University’s 75th anniversary celebration? The University organized a year-long series of events in conjunction with…

Eleanor Roosevelt visited Stern College on May 22, 1958, and conducted a fireside chat with a group of Stern students. The visit was part of "Stern College Month," a month long series of events held starting on May 19, heralding commencement day on June 19, 1958. Mayor Robert F. Wagner proclaimed…

The holiday of Shavuot has other names: Yom ha-Bikurim, in honor of bringing the first ripe fruits to the Temple in Jerusalem, and Zman Matan Toratenu, the time of the giving of the Torah to the Jewish people. The Machzike Talmud Torah of Borough Park embodied both names of the holiday in its ...

Jeremy Orlian, Yeshiva College '19: Edward Hopper's Early Sunday Morning (1930), oil on canvas Painting 1: Copy of a Master on view in Pollack Library, 2nd floor of Gottesman Library building. These paintings are copies of various modern artists completed by students in the beginning painting class…

Please join us in congratulating Samuel Gelman, a third year Yeshiva College political science major. For Professor Maria Zaitseva’s class, Writing Politics, he researched and wrote " India and America, A New Special Relationship: An Analysis of the Future Alliance between the United States and ...

In this issue: Student library research award winner announced 2018 Catalog of University Authors published Extended hours for reading and final examination periods Exhibit: Painting 1—Copy of a Master A Lag Ba-Omer Haircut, Amsterdam from 1723 Minhagim book Student Library Research Award Winner ...

Lag Ba-Omer is literally the thirty-third day of the Omer, as indicated by the numerical count of the value of the Hebrew letters: “lamed” equals thirty and “gimel” is three, for a total of thirty-three. The Omer period, counted for forty-nine days from the second night of Passover to Shavuot, is…

Please visit the Library and see the new exhibit on the First World War, inspired by the conference, “WWI, Nationalism, and Jewish Culture,” sponsored by the Yeshiva University Center for Israel Studies, on April 25, 2018. Even if you miss the conference, the exhibit will be available on the fourth…

Celebration of University Authors, May 3rd, 2018.