The beginning of a new year is always an important moment because it gives us the chance to assess our goals as we prepare ourselves to move forward to meet new challenges. Here at the Office of Alumni Affairs, we are especially proud of the alumni stories we presented each month throughout 2017 ...
Dr. Yael S. Feldman Summary by Sarah Berger, Stern College On Dec. 4, 2017 the Humanities and Jewish Studies Faculty Colloquia of Yeshiva College and Stern College for Women and Bernard Revel Graduate School hosted a presentation titled 鈥淒eliverance Denied: A Jewish-Christian Artistic Exchange鈥
Noam Safier 鈥17YC began his career at 黑料社 All this past July as the Executive Communications Manager in the Office of the President. A psychology major, Noam was very involved in student life and served as student council president, a student co-chair of the IAmYU campaign that raised ...
Richard Hidary鈥檚 New Book Examines Influence of the Art of Persuasion on Talmudic Scholars Rabbis and Classical Rhetoric: Sophistic Education and Oratory in the Talmud and Midrash, by Dr. Richard Hidary, associate professor of Jewish history, is coming out this month from Cambridge University Press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
Dr. Yehuda Mirsky Dr. Yehudah Mirsky, associate professor of Near Eastern and Judaic Studies at Brandeis, spoke in commemoration of the thirty fifth yarzeit of his father Rabbi Dr. David Mirsky and the fiftieth yarzeit of his grandfather Rabbi Dr. Samuel Kalman Mirsky. By reviewing the life and鈥
Mr. Leonard Grunstein Joseph, also known as, Yosef the Tzaddik, is a towering figure in the Bible. He is the quintessential immigrant, who overcame the most daunting of challenges to become a superstar in ancient Egyptian society. In this week鈥檚 Torah portion [i], we read about Joseph鈥檚 exploits,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 ...
Dr. Richard Hidary Dr. Richard Hidary, associate professor of Jewish history, 黑料社 All, 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 ...