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Based on the Jerusalem research group directed by Revel Dean Cohen in 2010/11, the new volume Interpreting Scriptures in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam: Overlapping Inquiries, published by Cambridge University press, will appear in January 2016. This volume contains the following chapters, each…

The Bernard Revel Graduate School of Jewish Studies invites you to a lecture by Professor Yair Lorberbaum: Ta’amei ha-Mitzvot in the Thought of Rashba Professor Yair Lorberbaum received his doctorate in Jewish thought from The Hebrew University of Jerusalem and is currently a professor at Bar-Ilan…

Rabbi Dr. Leo Jung, rabbi of the Jewish Center on West 86th Street in Manhattan, and professor at Yeshiva College, participated in an international Rosh Hashanah radio program in September 1935. The program, entitled the “Synagogue Council Greeting to the World,” was broadcast on radio station WJZ…

Dr. Ariel Malka, associate professor of Psychology at Yeshiva College, was recently granted tenure. He graduated with a BA from the University of Rochester, with an MA and PhD from the University of California, Berkeley. He is a social/personality psychologist who studies political psychology and…

YU recently d eveloped the Blue & White Club, the official booster club of the Yeshiva University Maccabees, and it has now added the Young Alumni Board (YAB) to ramp up athletic alumni involvement. “Alumni involvement in college athletics is part and parcel of college athletics,” said Josh…

In 2004, a group of Central High School and Stern College for Women alumni banded together to form ACHI (“my brother”), an acronym for American Communities Helping Israel. The organization, which was founded during a time when Israel was suffering from a lack of tourists, seeks to create ...

The Bernard Revel Graduate School of Jewish Studies, in partnership with YU Global, invites you to a lecture by Dr. Youde Fu: Hebrew Prophets and Confucian Sages: A Comparison This lecture will examine similarities and differences between the Hebrew prophets and Confucian sages in their roles as ...

Go directly to the 5th floor to access all library services: Books & Reserve Books Computers & Study Spaces Printing & Copying Research Help (This is just for the next few weeks!) You will arrive on campus this week or next, full of anticipation for the new Fall semester. You will…

Dr. Mordechai Z. Cohen, Associate Dean and Professor of Bible at Revel, was in Jerusalem this summer on a visiting Fellowship at the Hebrew University's Israel Institute for Advanced Studies, along with an international group of scholars studying the relationship between interpretation and law. He…

How did members of the Polish resistance movement treat Jewish fugitives during the terrible events of World War II? This question, focusing on one of the darkest and most troubling problems in the history of Polish-Jewish relations, is one many people already believe they have an answer for. But…