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The Bernard Revel Graduate School of Jewish Studies invites you to a lecture Should We Seek to Understand the Ways of God? Contrasting Perspectives in Jewish Thought By David Shatz Theodicy—the attempt to explain how God allows evil—is a central part of Jewish tradition. But so is antitheodicy, the…

The nomination of the first female presidential candidate of a major American political party is a time to reflect on the history of women and the vote. At the very same time the campaign for women’s voting rights was taking center stage in the United States, a similar debate was taking place in…

By Isaac Choua Poetry during the High Middle Ages of Spain under Islamic rule “was in the very heart of that culture”, according To Professor Peter Cole. Being a star in those days meant being a poet. Poetry dealt with more than just the beauty of the physical world, instead dealing with the divine…

Professor Marnin Young is Associate Professor of Art History at Stern College for Women. Professor Young was born in Indiana and grew up on the west coast. He received both his B.A. and Ph.D. degrees in History of Art from the University of California, Berkeley. His doctoral dissertation eventually…

Just in time for the mid-term examination period, the transformed lower-level periodical room in the Hedi Steinberg Library on the Beren Campus is nearly complete and opens to students this week. It re-purposes a former set of stacks for bound and unbound periodicals into a much-needed set of…

The Bernard Revel Graduate School of Jewish Studies invites you to a reading and conversation with Peter Cole: Angels in Al-Andalus, and Beyond MacArthur Fellow Peter Cole will talk about the role of poetry in the history of Hebrew and Judaism. He’ll read from his award-winning poems and ...

Agnon’s Stories of the Land of Israel Celebrating the 50 th Anniversary of S. Y. Agnon’s Nobel Prize Organized by the Yeshiva University Center for Israel Studies and its Joseph and Faye Glatt Program on Israel and the Rule of Law Co-sponsored by: Agnon House, Jerusalem; The Bernard Revel Graduate…

On Monday October 31, the Yeshiva University Center for Israel Studies is holding a conference celebrating the 50 th anniversary of S.Y. Agnon’s receipt of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1966. In Stockholm at the Nobel awards ceremony, a scroll from Yeshiva University was presented to Agnon, “in…

Please join us to celebrate the release of Jeffrey S. Gurock's The Jews of Harlem: The Rise, Decline, and Revival of a Jewish Community. During World War I, Harlem was the home of the second largest Jewish community in America. But in the 1920s, Jewish residents began to scatter to other parts of…

Eighteen student photographers are on exhibit on level 2 in the Gottesman Library Building, forming the first installation in a gallery space devoted to the work of Yeshiva University students. The project was realized with support from Shlomo Friedman of the Photography Club and funding from the…