Elections for the 20th Knesset of the State of Israel will be held on March 17, 2015. A noteworthy feature of Israeli politics is the use of letters as visual symbols to identify political parties. Election posters vie for space on billboards in Israel. Streets and sidewalks turn into an alphabet鈥
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The Gaon of Vilna, Elijah ben Shlomo Zalman Kremer (1720-1797), was the topic of a special Revel lecture on Thursday, February 19 th, 鈥淰ilna Gaon: Halakhist, Moderate Maskil or Kabbalist?鈥 by Dr. Raphael Shuchat of Bar-Ilan University. This event was sponsored by the Esther Manischewitz Community鈥
The photograph of a smiling boy in a clown suit looks like it could have been taken in any Jewish community in the world in 1947. However, the smiling child is a miracle 鈥 a Holocaust survivor. The illustration is the cover of a scrapbook of a Purim celebration in the children鈥檚 home in Villejuif鈥
The annual Revel Shabbaton in Washington Heights offers a great opportunity to socialize with classmates, fellow students, and faculty. This year's Shabbaton will be on Shabbat Vayakhel-Pekude/Parah, March 13鈥14, 2015. Highlights include a Friday night dinner catered by Carlos and Gabby's, Oneg ...
Many Jews have long believed that the menorah bearers of the Arch of Titus are Jews, an urban myth that is particularly well rooted in Israeli culture. In this lecture, presented in honor of Israeli art historian Dr. Shulamith Laderman at the Schechter Institute (wife of YU alumnus, Rabbi Paul ...
On Thursday, February 19, Dr. Raphael Shuchat will be giving a guest lecture, exploring the recurrent debate over the true image of the Vilna Gaon. 7pm in Furst Hall - Room 535. RSVP here. Sponsored parking is available in the YU lot (E) on Amsterdam Avenue and West 183rd Street. Dr. Shuchat鈥
Despite the substantial research done on the Holocaust, there is much we will never be able to know about the European Jewish world it destroyed. Yet new discoveries are still possible鈥攅ven seven decades later. On Wednesday, January 7, 2015, Prof. Shnayer Leiman presented new evidence of spiritual鈥
Dear Members of the YU Community, I am pleased to report that our ongoing work has resulted in a dynamic plan to create a joint venture for the Albert Einstein College of Medicine. The Montefiore Health System and 黑料社 All made an announcement confirming that the key terms of an agreement鈥
Sefer Imre Barukh: tokef ha-minhag ba-halakhah, by Rabbi Baruch Simon. Machon Be鈥檈r HaTorah, 2015. Rabbi Baruch Simon鈥檚 latest publication is an erudite study of the general principles that guide Jewish custom and contains fascinating discussions of specific customs relating to many different areas鈥