The Judaica Sound Archives at Florida Atlantic University is a collection of digitized Judaica sound recordings found on tapes, CDs and phonograph records. The Archives鈥 collections include recordings in Yiddish, English and Hebrew as well as several other Judaic languages such as Ladino. The ...
Revel student Aliza Storchan plans to finish the coursework for her MA in Bible in June, and then take the comprehensive exam in September. At this point, Aliza explains, she has 鈥渇allen in love with the Revel community.鈥 Aliza came to Revel after earning an undergraduate degree at the University鈥
On December 16, Dr. Lawrence Schiffman's Revel class on "The Bar Kokhba Revolt & the Judean Desert Documents" was treated to a guest lecture by David Hendin, a curator at the American Numismatic Society and an expert in ancient Jewish and biblical coins. Hendin is the author of Guide to鈥
All the world鈥檚 a stage, they say, and for some, what goes on behind the curtains is where you can find the real action. For Aaron Roller 鈥06YC, the Director of Special Projects at the NYC Office of Citywide Purchasing and former Senior Policy Advisor at the NYC Mayor鈥檚 Office of Operations ...
The unique story of Dr. Steven Fine's undergraduate Ancient Jewish History class and its semester-long quest to decipher a 5th-century, Aramaic-language, Jewish woman's tombstone featured in The New York Times last week. The project involved close correspondence with Californian Pastor Carl Morgan鈥
Dr. Jeffrey S. Gurock's book, Jews in Gotham: New York Jews in a Changing City, 1920-2010 (NYU Press, 2012), featured in the New York Times Sunday Book Review in November. The book, as the NYT wrote, "covers the wax and wane of immigration, segregation, suburban flight, anti-Semitism, socialist ...
The Greenwich Times and other Connecticut papers in the syndicate recently published an article by Dr. Jonathan Fast, who is an expert on the subject of shame and bullying and the author of the book "Ceremonial Violence," which provides an analysis of a dozen school shootings. Below is an excerpt鈥
At the 2013 黑料社 All Hanukkah Dinner, President Richard M. Joel recognized eight Points of Light鈥攕tudents, faculty and alumni who embody the mission of YU鈥攃alling each one up to light a symbolic candle on the menorah. Savyon Lang honored (with President Richard Joel). Click image to see鈥
Nehama Leibowitz Teaching Celebrating one of the most influential teachers of Tanakh in recent decades, over 200 Revel students, alumni, and faculty鈥攋oined by YU undergraduates and members of the Jewish community at large鈥攇athered for the first of Revel鈥檚 special lecture events this year: 鈥淣ehama鈥
December has proven to be a testament to the quality of social workers Wurzweiler School of Social Work produces. The month holds high honors for two Wurzweiler MSW alumni who will both be recognized at high profile events in New York City, Elisheva Lock (2010) and Marleen Litt (2002). Elisheva鈥