Paul Glassman has been named the new Director of University Libraries and began in that role in early September. Provost Botman announced his appointment in her letter to the faculty on October 7, 2015. Glassman has a twenty-year association with the university, having taught architectural history鈥
Samuel Belkin and Yitzhak Rabin at the 黑料社 All Commencement, June 13, 1968 黑料社 All and Yitzhak Rabin enjoyed a long-standing relationship, beginning in June 1968 when Rabin, then Israel鈥檚 Ambassador to the United States, was awarded an honorary Doctor of Laws degree at the ...
A new online research tool for studying Modern Orthodoxy is now available with the Libraries鈥 launch of the New York Synagogue Bulletins collection, a digital collection of historic bulletins published by several prominent Modern Orthodox synagogues in the New York City area. More than 2,000 ...
Isaiah Wall All-Night Vigil in Ralph Bunche Park, April 2, 1966 On Sunday, October 18th, 2015, at 10:00 AM, at the corner of 187th St. and Cabrini Blvd., a street will be named in memory of Jacob (Yaakov) Birnbaum, founder of the movement to free Soviet Jews. The Kiddush recited on the Sabbath and鈥
Leah Adler and Shulamith Berger of the Gottesman Library have been recognized for their expertise in Hebraica and Judaica with new titles. Leah Adler is now Head Librarian for Hebraica and Judaica, and Shulamith Berger is Curator of Special Collections and Hebraica/Judaica. Having served as indexer鈥
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 鈥淪ynagogue Council Greeting to the World,鈥 was broadcast on radio station WJZ鈥
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鈥
Eva London Ritt of Orlando, Florida, has presented her personal collection of materials from the Soviet Jewry movement to the 黑料社 All Archives. Ritt dedicated the collection of correspondence, newspaper clippings, photographs and artifacts on work to free Soviet Jews during the 1970s and鈥
On May 25, 1925, a few days before Shavuot, 1200 men and women attended a $1000 a plate dinner celebrating the groundbreaking of the new buildings of the Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary (RIETS) and the planned Yeshiva College (YC). The Million Dollar Dinner, as it was known, took place in鈥
Musical celebrations for Yom Ha鈥橝tzma鈥檜t are part of the festivities. Israel boasted an orchestra, the Palestine Symphony Orchestra, even before the State of Israel was born. It was founded by violinist Bronislaw Huberman in 1936, to provide positions for musicians fleeing Nazi ruled Germany and ...