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Book Talk with Author Jeffrey S. Gurock Libby S. Klaperman Professor of Jewish History At the Seforim Sale Sunday, February 12, 2017 | 4 p.m. | Weissberg Commons Belfer Hall, 2495 Amsterdam Avenue, New York, NY 10033 The Jews of Harlem : The Rise, Decline and Revival of a Jewish Community, by ...

Note the refrigerators in the photograph. The advent of modern electric refrigeration is the primary factor in the end of the era of the large-scale ice business and the closing of the Knickerbocker ice plant. On December 12, 1946, Yeshiva students were stopped by police blockades on their way to…

Dr. Chaim Nissel, Psy.D. is Yeshiva University’s Dean of Students and an Adjunct Assistant Professor at the Wurzweiler School of Social Work. He was recently recognized for the completion of 20 years of service to the YU community. He holds a master’s degree in education and a doctorate in School…

Yeshiva’s first Hanukkah dinner took place over a century ago in 1915, in honor of the dedication of Yeshiva’s new home in a small refurbished building on Montgomery Street on New York’s Lower East Side. Yeshiva has a long history of Dining for the Divine on Hanukkah; a festivity of fellowship,…

Thanksgiving 1945, the first Thanksgiving after the end of World War II, was a time for the free world in general, and Jews in particular, to give thanks for the Allied victory in World War II. A variety of synagogues in Philadelphia united to organize the “First Annual Thanksgiving Service of the…

The upcoming holidays of Hanukkah and Thanksgiving both celebrate “the family,” especially all of those ancestral legacies that help make us who we are. At Yeshiva University, we consider everyone who has ever passed through the University’s doors to be part of a worldwide family, and over the past…

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…

Today academic Jewish studies programs as well as associations of Jewish academics flourish in the United States. The situation was far different a century ago, when Rabbi Dr. Bernard Revel, president of the Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary, founded the Society of Jewish Academicians of ...