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By Michael Bettencourt On May 3, 2018 · Leave a Comment Dr. David Berger, Ruth and I. Lewis Gordon Professor of Jewish History and dean of the Bernard Revel Graduate School of Jewish Studies, spoke on May 2 at a colloquium titled “Jesus and Judaism” hosted by the Department of Theology of the ...

Joe Bednarsh has been the Director of Athletics and Recreation at Yeshiva University since 2006 and has been working at the institution since 1991. He started his tenure working as a lifeguard in the Gottesman Pool and has held every position in the department at some point. Bednarsh has been on ...

Jeremy Orlian, Yeshiva College '19: Edward Hopper's Early Sunday Morning (1930), oil on canvas Painting 1: Copy of a Master on view in Pollack Library, 2nd floor of Gottesman Library building. These paintings are copies of various modern artists completed by students in the beginning painting class…

Please join us in congratulating Samuel Gelman, a third year Yeshiva College political science major. For Professor Maria Zaitseva’s class, Writing Politics, he researched and wrote " India and America, A New Special Relationship: An Analysis of the Future Alliance between the United States and ...

In this issue: Student library research award winner announced 2018 Catalog of University Authors published Extended hours for reading and final examination periods Exhibit: Painting 1—Copy of a Master A Lag Ba-Omer Haircut, Amsterdam from 1723 Minhagim book Student Library Research Award Winner ...

Lag Ba-Omer is literally the thirty-third day of the Omer, as indicated by the numerical count of the value of the Hebrew letters: “lamed” equals thirty and “gimel” is three, for a total of thirty-three. The Omer period, counted for forty-nine days from the second night of Passover to Shavuot, is…

Please visit the Library and see the new exhibit on the First World War, inspired by the conference, “WWI, Nationalism, and Jewish Culture,” sponsored by the Yeshiva University Center for Israel Studies, on April 25, 2018. Even if you miss the conference, the exhibit will be available on the fourth…

Celebration of University Authors, May 3rd, 2018.

By Rona Steinerman On April 10, 2018 the Bernard Revel Graduate School hosted Rabbi Jeffrey Saks (Revel MA 1994), who spoke about S.Y. Agnon, his contribution to Hebrew literature, and the challenges of editing and translating the Nobel Prize winner’s works. In high school, Saks received a copy of…