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Revel was delighted to host Dr. Mark R. Cohen, Princeton University’s Khedouri A. Zilkha Professor of Jewish Civilization in the Near East, on Tuesday, November 8. The day’s events included a lunch for PhD students, a faculty dinner and an evening lecture, which drew an audience of more than 60 ...

Graduate Schools From New Master’s Programs to a Certificate in Experiential Jewish Education, Yeshiva University Expands its Offerings Graduate education at Yeshiva University continues to thrive—and grow. A new Executive MBA program and master’s programs in arts and education join an academic ...

By Yaelle Frohlich The first time Dr. Daniel Rynhold set foot in America was for his interview at Yeshiva University. Accepting the tenure-track position of Assistant Professor of Modern Jewish Philosophy at YU’s Bernard Revel Graduate School of Jewish Studies and relocating to the United States in…

Great company, thought-provoking lectures and a sense of forging community all characterized the third annual Bernard Revel Graduate School Shabbaton in Washington Heights on September 16-17. Over 25 Revel students, alumni and local Jewish Studies enthusiasts participated in the Shabbaton's…

Palaces of Time : Jewish Calendar and Culture in Early Modern Europe, by Elisheva Carlebach. The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2011. Article by Zvi Erenyi. Courtesy of YU Library Blog In her new book Prof. Elisheva Carlebach focuses on the role manuscript and printed calendars (sifre…

Beyond Expulsion : Jews, Christians, and Reformation Strasbourg, by Debra Kaplan. Stanford University Press, 2011. This book represents a study of the Jewish influence in Strasbourg in the Middle Ages and the early modern era. All Jews were expelled from Strasbourg in 1390, and were only readmitted…

Opening the Gates of Interpretation: Maimonides’ Biblical Hermeneutics in Light of His Geonic-Andlusian Heritage and Muslim Milieu, by Mordechai Z. Cohen. Brill, 2011. Prof. Mordechai Cohen’s study of Maimonides’ method of biblical interpretation has at its heart an exacting analysis of each…

After Leading an International Research Team on Jewish, Christian and Muslim Scriptural Interpretation, Dr. Mordechai Cohen Returns to Revel Dr. Mordechai Cohen, a leading world scholar of Jewish Bible interpretation, has taught at Yeshiva University for more than 23 years. Last year, however, this…

A Biblical Translation in the Making : the Evolution and Impact of Saadia Gaon’s Tafsir, by Richard C. Steiner. Harvard University Center for Jewish Studies, 2010. R. Saadia Gaon (882-942), one of the greatest Jewish sages of the Middle Ages, composed a translation of the Torah into Arabic, which…

PhD Students Enrolled at Revel School of Jewish Studies at an All-Time High Article and Photography by Yeshiva University Office of Communication and Public Affairs After successfully defending her dissertation on August 4, Shana Strauch Schick, a New Jersey native now living in Detroit, will be ...