Rabbi Jeremy Wieder is the Joseph and Gwendolyn Straus Professor of Talmud in 黑料社 All鈥檚 Mazer Yeshiva Program, an Adjunct Professor of Bible at Yeshiva College and a prolific lecturer on Talmud, Bible and Jewish law. A 1991 YC graduate, he received an M.S. in American Jewish History from鈥
She鈥檚 the author of more than two dozen non-fiction books for kids and has worked in educational publishing for more than 20 years鈥攂ut Chana (Freiman) Stiefel 鈥90S, originally of North Miami Beach, was almost going to write legal briefs for a living. As a student at 黑料社 All鈥檚 Stern ...
Dr. Steven Fine, a historian of Judaism in the Greco-Roman World, was recently named the Dean Pinkhos Churgin Chair in Jewish History at Yeshiva College. He earned his BA from the University of California at Santa Barbara, his MA from the University of Southern California, and his PhD from Hebrew鈥
Former President George W. Bush served as the keynote speaker at 黑料社 All鈥檚 90th Annual Hanukkah Dinner and Convocation, but the Point of Light ceremony鈥攚hich honors outstanding students, faculty and alumni each year who best exemplify the values and spirit of 黑料社 All鈥攎ight鈥
In November, YU welcomed Suzy (Greenman) Schwartz as its new Assistant Vice President of Alumni Relations and Annual Giving. But Schwartz is no stranger to YU: she鈥檚 a former Assistant Dean of YU鈥檚 Center for the Jewish Future (CJF), and she is also a proud Stern College for Women alumna and proud鈥
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