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YU librarians were a vital presence at the Association of Jewish Libraries annual conference, held at Hebrew Union College in New York in June. Shulamis Hes, Electronic Resources and Reference Librarian, served on the Conference Committee. Shulamith Berger, Curator of Special Collections and ...

Learn about the renovation of the Mendel Gottesman Library of Hebraica-Judaica (levels 5 and 5A) scheduled for this summer. Architects Ran Oron and James Driscoll of ROART will present the schematic design for the project on Monday, May 8, 2017 at noon in the Mendel Gottesman Library Building, 2 nd…

Today, a consumer shopping for kosher for Passover products enjoys choosing from a myriad of prepared, packaged, and frozen foods. Supermarket shelves overflowing with wares offer a selection of 52,000 kosher for Passover foods, according to the newsletter KosherToday. Jewish Life, April 1947 In ...

The Menorah: from the Bible to modern Israel, by Steven Fine. Harvard University Press, 2016. Professor Fine's new book explores the history of the menorah, both in terms of how it was represented and what it symbolized and continues to symbolize for Jews and others. Dr. Fine traces the religious…

Bernard Revel’s Reorganization of RIETS and the Chag HaSemikhah of 1919 The 1919 Chag HaSemikhah was the first fruit of Bernard Revel’s reorganization of the Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary (RIETS), which commenced when Revel was appointed as its Rosh Yeshiva in 1915. Revel ascended to…

Mordecai Paldiel. Saving One’s Own: Jewish Rescuers during the Holocaust. University of Nebraska/Jewish Publication Society, 2017. Mordecai Paldiel – Adjunct Professor in Jewish History, Stern College for Women – has created a welcome and vital addition to Holocaust scholarship. Saving One’s Own ...

Matthew Silkin, Yaacov Samel & Yoni Kornblau with Rachel Mesch, Associate Professor of English & French, at the opening reception for their Parisian Views: Instagram Discoveries by Yeshiva College Students Parisian Views: Instagram Discoveries by Yeshiva College Students is the most recent…