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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…

Phil Goldfeder was named Assistant Vice President for Government Relations at Yeshiva University in 2016 and has hit the ground running to lead YU government relations efforts by working to strengthen and develop relations between the University and federal, state, and local governments, and…

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 ...

YU librarians were a vital presence at the Association of Jewish Libraries annual conference, held at Hebrew Union College in New York in June. Shulamis Hes, Electronic Resources and Reference Librarian, served on the Conference Committee. Shulamith Berger, Curator of Special Collections and ...

Leonard Fuld is Clinical Assistant Professor of Accounting, Tax and Entrepreneurial Business Management at the Sy Syms School of Business of Yeshiva University. He has lectured extensively on U.S. and International tax and business issues throughout the world. Prior to joining Yeshiva University ...

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 ...

Learn about the renovation of the Mendel Gottesman Library of Hebraica-Judaica (levels 5 and 5A) scheduled for this summer. Architects Ran Oron and James Driscoll of ROART will present the schematic design for the project on Monday, May 8, 2017 at noon in the Mendel Gottesman Library Building, 2 nd…

Rabbi Hayyim Angel is the National Scholar of the Institute for Jewish Ideas and Ideals (jewishideas.org). He has taught advanced Bible courses to undergraduate, graduate, and rabbinical students at Yeshiva University since 1996, and lectures widely. He has published over 130 scholarly articles ...