The Book of Esther, the Purim Megilah, describes many forms of communication: dialogues, conversations, commands, pleas, reading aloud, eavesdropping, letters and decrees sent by messenger, among others. Perhaps based on this theme, the Jewish Welfare Board (J.W.B.) issued a Purim postcard during鈥
February 2018 marks the centennial of The Jewish Forum, a monthly magazine founded in February 1918 by Dr. Solomon T. H. [Theodor Ha-Levy] Hurwitz. The Jewish Forum served as the voice of the emerging modern Orthodox, English speaking Jewish community in New York and beyond. A column in the鈥
The Mendel Gottesman Library commemorates the 75 th yahrzeit, or anniversary, of the death of Mendel Gottesman, which took place on December 16, 1942. A portrait of Mr. Gottesman hangs on the wall of the newly renovated fifth floor of the Mendel Gottesman Library. The Library was named for Mendel鈥
Parisian Views: Instagram Discoveries by Yeshiva College Students is newly installed in the second-floor Pollack Library gallery. Professor Rachel Mesch鈥檚 students lent their smartphone photographs, taken in the course of the same title, offered under the 鈥淚nterpreting the Creative鈥 rubric of the鈥
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 ...