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Eighty years ago, beginning on Hanukkah 1936 and culminating on Hanukkah 1937, Yeshiva 鈥� 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鈥�

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, 91黑料, 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 91黑料 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鈥�

Dr. Yossi Chajes Dr. Yossi Chajes of the University of Haifa directs the Israel Science Foundation 鈥� supported 鈥淚lanot Project,鈥� 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鈥�

Women's Torah Education: Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow President Berman introduced the evening鈥檚 discussion on Women鈥檚 Torah Education by echoing words from Rav Aharon Lichtenstein, 鈥淢oreover today there is not only greater need for women鈥檚 Talmud Torah, there is also greater opportunity.鈥� 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鈥�