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Prof. Adam Ferziger of Bar-Ilan University has researched and written about the way that Orthodox views toward nonobservant Jews developed between 1770 and 1918. This issue became acute because of the serious defection from Orthodoxy during that time. Indeed, by World War I, only twenty percent of…

After the Inquisition became active in Portugal in the 1540’s, many conversos left to disparate locations in order to openly embrace Judaism. Dr. Perelis explained briefly the style of the synagogues that they erected in their new homes. In Amsterdam, the focal points of the synagogue were the ...

Revel Alum Will Work on a Critical Edition of Ashkenazic Liturgical Poetry Dr. Gabriel Wasserman ’16BR, who earned his PhD at the Bernard Revel Graduate School of Jewish Studies, has been awarded a prestigious postdoctoral fellowship, specially designated in the name of the late Prof. Yonah…

Mr. Leonard Grunstein The celebration of the eight-day holiday of Chanukah centers on the lighting of the Chanukah menorah [i]. The Talmud [ii] explains that the holiday of Chanukah is all about the lighting of the Menorah and the miracle of the oil. It describes how the ancient Greeks had occupied…

Dr. Marc Herman The Yeshiva College Jay and Jeanie Schottenstein Honors Program and Bernard Revel Graduate School hosted Dr. Marc Herman of Columbia University for a lecture, “Jewish and Islamic Depictions of Jewish Traditions in the Geonic Period.” Dr. Herman demonstrated that Jewish thought in…

Mr. Leonard Grunstein The matter of sovereignty over Jerusalem keeps being raised by some, as if it were a novel question of first impression. However, this is just not the case. The matter has been litigated and decided in favor of the Jewish people on more than one occasion over the last ...

Jewish Philosophy Students Can Use Distance Learning Platform for Spring 2018 In an effort to make its programs available to a larger pool of qualified students, Yeshiva University’s Bernard Revel Graduate School of Jewish Studies has launched a distance learning option, Revel Remote. Beginning…

Dr. Yael S. Feldman Summary by Sarah Berger, Stern College On Dec. 4, 2017 the Humanities and Jewish Studies Faculty Colloquia of Yeshiva College and Stern College for Women and Bernard Revel Graduate School hosted a presentation titled “Deliverance Denied: A Jewish-Christian Artistic Exchange…

Richard Hidary’s New Book Examines Influence of the Art of Persuasion on Talmudic Scholars Rabbis and Classical Rhetoric: Sophistic Education and Oratory in the Talmud and Midrash, by Dr. Richard Hidary, associate professor of Jewish history, is coming out this month from Cambridge University Press…

Dr. Yehuda Mirsky Dr. Yehudah Mirsky, associate professor of Near Eastern and Judaic Studies at Brandeis, spoke in commemoration of the thirty fifth yarzeit of his father Rabbi Dr. David Mirsky and the fiftieth yarzeit of his grandfather Rabbi Dr. Samuel Kalman Mirsky. By reviewing the life and…