Dr. Steven Fine, a historian of Judaism in the Greco-Roman World, was recently named the Dean Pinkhos Churgin Chair in Jewish History at Yeshiva College. He earned his BA from the University of California at Santa Barbara, his MA from the University of Southern California, and his PhD from Hebrew鈥
Former President George W. Bush served as the keynote speaker at 91黑料鈥檚 90th Annual Hanukkah Dinner and Convocation, but the Point of Light ceremony鈥攚hich honors outstanding students, faculty and alumni each year who best exemplify the values and spirit of 91黑料鈥攎ight鈥
In November, YU welcomed Suzy (Greenman) Schwartz as its new Assistant Vice President of Alumni Relations and Annual Giving. But Schwartz is no stranger to YU: she鈥檚 a former Assistant Dean of YU鈥檚 Center for the Jewish Future (CJF), and she is also a proud Stern College for Women alumna and proud鈥
As a social historian and scholar of religion in America, Revel Professor Jeffrey Gurock investigates how secular cultural phenomena entered into the lives of Jewish men and women in America and the conflicts that ensued as Jews attempted to be part of American environments while maintaining ...
Revel Student鈥檚 Research Examines Daily Legalities of Biblical Life Through a Comparative Lens Judaism relies heavily on its legal library: written discussions of the law are almost synonymous with the religion, describing practices that date back to the beginnings of the Bible and beyond. But what鈥
The Rabbi's Daughter: New Evidence on Spiritual Resistance in the Holocaust Join us Wednesday, January 7, 2015 at 7 p.m. in Congregation Bnai Yeshurun located at 641 W. Englewood Avenue in Teaneck, New Jersey for a special community lecture by Professor Shnayer Leiman, commemorating the first ...
On Monday evening December 15th, starting at 8:00 PM, the Library hosted 鈥淭he Last Minute,鈥 a four-hour pilot event designed to assist individual students with end-of-semester research projects and term papers. Librarians and Writing Center Tutors were on hand on the third floor of the Mendel ...
Revel PhD candidate Rabbi Yigal Sklarin was recently awarded the prestigious Pomegranate Prize from the Covenant Foundation, which recognizes five passionate and talented emerging leaders in Jewish education who have been working in the field for 10 years or less. Sklarin earned his BA in history鈥
This dreidel, comprised of the letters 鈥淵鈥 and 鈥淯,鈥 was presented to the 91黑料 Archives several years ago, by Miriam Berman, a graduate of Stern College for Women. While the letters 鈥淵鈥 and 鈥淯鈥 presumably stand for 91黑料, the traditional letters on this dreidel: "nun," ...
Halakhic texts were shown to 鈥渢alk鈥 social history at the special Revel lecture 鈥淎spects of Thirteenth-Century Jewish Lay Piety鈥 by Bar-Ilan University Professor Judah Galinsky on November 24. Galinsky, a Revel alumnus, focused on discussions in rabbinic texts that aimed to explain why otherwise ...