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Dr. Ronnie Perelis Dr. Ronnie Perelis, Chief Rabbi Dr. Isaac Abraham and Jelena (Rachel) Alcalay and assistant professor of Sephardic studies, is featured in a short video with Dr. Steven Zucker, co-founder and executive editor for Smarthistory and faculty emeritus at Khan Academy, about a 14th ...

The Yeshiva University Board of Trustees recently awarded tenure to 17 faculty members across the University’s undergraduate and graduate school. At the same time, at the Bernard Revel Graduate School of Jewish Studies, Dr. Daniel Rynhold, professor of Jewish philosophy, was promoted to the rank of…

Mordechai Cohen, associate dean of and professor of Bible at the Bernard Revel Graduate School of Jewish Studies, gave a 9-hour course on Jewish Bible interpretation at the Center for Judaic and Inter-Religious Studies at Shandong University in May. The aim of the course was to introduce key ...

Rabbi Boruch Oberlander, a leader of contemporary Hungarian Jewry, discussed a controversy which unfolded in his community in the early twentieth century. A man calling himself Shlomo Yehuda Algazi-Friedlander published manuscripts purported to be the tractates of Seder Kodashim of the Jerusalem ...

For information about this event and Dr. Ofer's bio click here. R’ Moshe ben Nahman (1194-1270), also known as the Ramban or Nahmanides, was born in Girona, Catalonia in present day Spain. This city is where he spent most of his life, including where he wrote his commentary on the entire Humash ...

The Bernard Revel Graduate School of Jewish Studies invites you to a lecture - Nahmanides' Revisions in His Torah Commentary Regarding Hebron, RAchel's Tomb and the Shekel Coin by Dr. Yosef Ofer Nahmanides (1196–1270) wrote his Torah commentary while still in Spain, but updated it when he came to…

Exploring Esther Literary, Political and Sociological Reflections on the Megillah Presented by the Bernard Revel Graduate School of Jewish Stuides of Yeshiva University in partnership with Lincoln Square Synagogue. Featuring: Dr. Aaron Koller , Associate Professor of Near Eastern and Jewish Studies…

Professor Joshua Zimmerman will be giving a lecture this Thursday (Nov. 17th) @ 4 PM at the UCLA Center for Jewish Studies: Wounds of History: The Polish Underground and the Jews during World War II http://www.cjs.ucla.edu/…/wounds-of-history-the-polish-und…/ http://www.the1939society.org/our-…

Metropolitan Museum of Art Lecture and Book Signing, Thur. Dec. 15, 3:00 PM The Menorah: From the Bible to Modern Israel Steven Fine, Dr. Pinkhos Churgin Professor of Jewish History, Yeshiva University, and Director, Yeshiva University Center for Israel Studies From Moses to the Maccabees and on to…