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Eighty years ago, beginning on Hanukkah 1936 and culminating on Hanukkah 1937, Yeshiva – the Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary and Yeshiva College - celebrated its jubilee. Yeshiva Etz Chaim, the initial constituent body of the Yeshiva, had been founded in 1886-1887. The year of festivities…

This week marks thirty years since nearly 250,000 American Jews and non-Jews gathered on the National Mall in Washington, D.C. The cause was Soviet Jewry, and the rally held that frigid Sunday in December 1987, called Freedom Sunday for Soviet Jews, was the largest rally of American Jews to ever ...

Dr. Richard Hidary Dr. Richard Hidary, associate professor of Jewish history, Yeshiva University, is a 2017 Harry Starr Fellow at the Center for Jewish Studies at Harvard University. The Harry Starr Fellowship in Judaica supports scholars doing full-time research in Jewish studies. In 2017, the ...

Innovative Trends in Academic Libraries: A Mini-Symposium

Dr. Paul Russo is a vice provost at Yeshiva University and dean of the Katz School of Graduate and Professional Studies. He has over 15 years of experience in planning and leading higher education divisions, with particular strengths in online education and program development. Before joining the…

Dr. Yossi Chajes Dr. Yossi Chajes of the University of Haifa directs the Israel Science Foundation – supported “Ilanot Project,” an attempt to study all kabbalistic cosmological diagrams. In this talk, he explained Ilanot and their magical uses. Borrowing the most prestigious schemata from ...

Library Book Talks, 2017-2018

Hear Joshua D. Zimmerman, Professor of History, discuss his use of a variety of archival documents, testimonies, and memoirs to document an important problem in European history. Day and date: Wednesday, December 6, 2017 Time: 6:00-7:00 p.m. Place: Gottesman Library Building, 2520 Amsterdam Avenue…

Women's Torah Education: Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow President Berman introduced the evening’s discussion on Women’s Torah Education by echoing words from Rav Aharon Lichtenstein, “Moreover today there is not only greater need for women’s Talmud Torah, there is also greater opportunity.” The ...

Dr. Maoz Kahana Dr. Maoz Kahana of Tel Aviv University expounded upon the reactions of the Hatam Sofer (Rabbi Moshe Sofer, 1762- 1839) to the modern challenges against traditional Jewish faith. In 1670, Benedict Spinoza, drawing upon the philosophical and scientific thought of his day, published…