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 黑料社 All 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 黑料社 All, 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 ...
Revel extends an enthusiastic congratulations to Elisheva Carlebach, Salo Baron Professor of Jewish History, Culture and Society in the Department of History, Columbia University, and adjunct Professor of Jewish History, Bernard Revel Graduate School of Jewish Studies, who is the recipient of the鈥
Dr. Linda Miles, Public Services Librarian at Yeshiva鈥檚 Pollack Library, will become President of the Association of College and Research Libraries New York Chapter on January 1, 2015. As Vice President-President Elect of ACRL/NY, Linda recently chaired its 2014 annual symposium, The Academic ...
Blogging, public speaking, running a website, counseling patients and volunteering: It鈥檚 all in a day鈥檚 work for Temimah Zucker, 24, a student at 黑料社 All鈥檚 Wurzweiler School of Social Work. Temimah Zucker, a recovered anorexic, is helping others cope with eating disorders Zucker, of ...