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The first International Bible Contest for Adults in thirty-two years took place at the International Convention Center in Jerusalem on December 12, 2012. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Education Minister Gideon Sa'ar opened the event by lighting Hanukkah candles. Twenty-seven experts on the…

A s ymposium commemorating the influential contemporary Israeli Bible scholar Amos Hakham, co-sponsored by the Bernard Revel Graduate School and the Yeshiva College Jewish Studies Department, was held on the Wilf Campus this past November 15th. It featured presentations by Professors Shalom Carmy…

All Revel students, faculty and alumni are cordially invited to a special dinner and lecture that Revel is hosting as part of our guest-lecture series. Professor Meir Bar-Asher of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, a world expert on Islam, will be speaking on the topic of Parallel Illumination ...

Hailing from Monsey, NY, Rivka Jacob graduated from Revel this past January with a concentration in Medieval Jewish History. At Revel, she valued the accessibility of her professors, many of whom are distinguished scholars. She also appreciated the fact that some of her classes brought her into ...

Having completed her Judaic Studies major at Stern this past spring, Elianna Mitnick is now pursuing a dual graduate degree in Jewish Education and Jewish Studies as part of the inaugural class of the new ARDD (Azrieli-Revel Dual Degree) Program. It was not inevitable for Elianna to end up pursuing…

On Thursday, October 25th, Andrew B. Kraebel of Yale University spent the day as the first visiting scholar of the year at the Bernard Revel Graduate School of Jewish Studies, having been invited by Revel’s Associate Dean Mordechai Cohen. Now completing his PhD, Mr. Kraebel has already published a…

A current Revel student herself, Anne had to make a bit of a trip to get to Washington Heights this fall. Born in Paris and raised in London, Anne never spent much of time in North America—until now. She attended Hasmonean High School in London, after which she spent a year at Michlalah Seminary in…

Rivka (Banner) Skaist, from Queens, NY, is studying for her Master’s degree in Jewish Philosophy at Revel. Rivka is one of those people fortunate to find deep meaning in their studies and be inspired by them. As an undergraduate at Queens College, she had planned to study speech therapy, but was so…

Join us for An Evening in Memory of Amos Hakham on Thursday, November 15th from 8:00-9:00pm in Furst Hall Room 535. Of humble origins, Amos Hakham became an instant celebrity when he won the first International Bible Contest (חידון התנ"ך העולמי) in 1958. He was “more famous than Yaakov Hodorov,” ...

S hoshannat Yaakov honors Yaakov Elman, Professor of Talmud at Yeshiva University, and celebrates Elman’s contributions to a broad range of disciplines within Jewish and Iranian studies. The fruits of Elman’s seminal project of bringing together of scholars of Iranian studies and Talmud in ways…