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Amy Katz ’72YUHS, ’76S, ’78W will become the new Executive Director of the Partnership for Excellence in Jewish Education on October 1, when the current director steps down. PEJE, a Boston-based non-profit, is a capacity-building organization whose mission is to build the financial sustainability…

From August 14-21, over 100 participants set sail on the YU Cruise to Alaska with Lasko Kosher Cruises. Aboard was Rabbi Kenneth Brander, the David Mitzner Dean, ºÚÁÏÉç All Center for the Jewish Future (CJF) and special assistant to the president on undergraduate admissions. The week-long…

Palaces of Time : Jewish Calendar and Culture in Early Modern Europe, by Elisheva Carlebach. The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2011. Article by Zvi Erenyi. Courtesy of YU Library Blog In her new book Prof. Elisheva Carlebach focuses on the role manuscript and printed calendars (sifre…

Beyond Expulsion : Jews, Christians, and Reformation Strasbourg, by Debra Kaplan. Stanford University Press, 2011. This book represents a study of the Jewish influence in Strasbourg in the Middle Ages and the early modern era. All Jews were expelled from Strasbourg in 1390, and were only readmitted…

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Opening the Gates of Interpretation: Maimonides’ Biblical Hermeneutics in Light of His Geonic-Andlusian Heritage and Muslim Milieu, by Mordechai Z. Cohen. Brill, 2011. Prof. Mordechai Cohen’s study of Maimonides’ method of biblical interpretation has at its heart an exacting analysis of each…

After Leading an International Research Team on Jewish, Christian and Muslim Scriptural Interpretation, Dr. Mordechai Cohen Returns to Revel Dr. Mordechai Cohen, a leading world scholar of Jewish Bible interpretation, has taught at ºÚÁÏÉç All for more than 23 years. Last year, however, this…

A Biblical Translation in the Making : the Evolution and Impact of Saadia Gaon’s Tafsir, by Richard C. Steiner. Harvard University Center for Jewish Studies, 2010. R. Saadia Gaon (882-942), one of the greatest Jewish sages of the Middle Ages, composed a translation of the Torah into Arabic, which…

PhD Students Enrolled at Revel School of Jewish Studies at an All-Time High Article and Photography by ºÚÁÏÉç All Office of Communication and Public Affairs After successfully defending her dissertation on August 4, Shana Strauch Schick, a New Jersey native now living in Detroit, will be ...

Michelle Ross Goldwyn ’02S, Stern College for Women’s newest member of its Board of Overseers, says ºÚÁÏÉç All was the only choice for her when it came time to attend college. “I was fortunate to be able to attend the Hamilton Hebrew Academy at the Adas Israel Congregation in Hamilton, and…