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On Tuesday, January 28, 2014 the Bernard Revel Graduate School welcomed Professor Yeshayahu Maori of Haifa University and Professor Amos Frisch of Bar-Ilan University for a symposium titled, “New Perspectives on Parshanut ha-Miqra: Medieval and Modern.” Revel Associate Dean and Bible Professor ...

The Iranian Talmud: Reading the Bavli in Its Sasanian Context, authored by Revel alumnus Dr. Shai Secunda, has been reviewed by Simcha Gross on the blog of the Center for Jewish Law and Contemporary Civilization at Cardozo Law School. Review of Shai Secunda, The Iranian Talmud: Reading the Bavli in…

Dr. Daniel Tsadik, Assistant Professor of Sephardic and Iranian Studies, will moderate a distinguished panel of writers, scholars and local community members discussing Iranian Jewish Identity on Monday, Feb. 3, 2014 at the Center for Jewish History in Manhattan. A large community of Iranian Jews…

Revel alumna Dr. Shana Schick's article, "Negligence and Strict Liability in the Babylonian and Palestinian Talmuds: Two Competing Systems of Tort Law in the Rulings of Early Amoraim," was recently published in the Jewish law journal Dine Israel (vol. 29 [2013]). The article explores the…

Save the Date: the Shabbat of January 31-February 1, Revel's Professor Steven Fine, also Director of the Yeshiva University Center for Israel Studies as well as the Arch of Titus Digital Restoration Project, will serve as Scholar-in-Residence at the Tribeca Synagogue for a weekend program titled ...

Revel student Aliza Storchan plans to finish the coursework for her MA in Bible in June, and then take the comprehensive exam in September. At this point, Aliza explains, she has “fallen in love with the Revel community.” Aliza came to Revel after earning an undergraduate degree at the University…

On December 16, Dr. Lawrence Schiffman's Revel class on "The Bar Kokhba Revolt & the Judean Desert Documents" was treated to a guest lecture by David Hendin, a curator at the American Numismatic Society and an expert in ancient Jewish and biblical coins. Hendin is the author of Guide to…

The unique story of Dr. Steven Fine's undergraduate Ancient Jewish History class and its semester-long quest to decipher a 5th-century, Aramaic-language, Jewish woman's tombstone featured in The New York Times last week. The project involved close correspondence with Californian Pastor Carl Morgan…

Dr. Jeffrey S. Gurock's book, Jews in Gotham: New York Jews in a Changing City, 1920-2010 (NYU Press, 2012), featured in the New York Times Sunday Book Review in November. The book, as the NYT wrote, "covers the wax and wane of immigration, segregation, suburban flight, anti-Semitism, socialist ...

Nehama Leibowitz Teaching Celebrating one of the most influential teachers of Tanakh in recent decades, over 200 Revel students, alumni, and faculty—joined by YU undergraduates and members of the Jewish community at large—gathered for the first of Revel’s special lecture events this year: “Nehama…