Book Talk with Author Jeffrey S. Gurock Libby S. Klaperman Professor of Jewish History At the Seforim Sale Sunday, February 12, 2017 | 4 p.m. | Weissberg Commons Belfer Hall, 2495 Amsterdam Avenue, New York, NY 10033 The Jews of Harlem : The Rise, Decline and Revival of a Jewish Community, by ...
Note the refrigerators in the photograph. The advent of modern electric refrigeration is the primary factor in the end of the era of the large-scale ice business and the closing of the Knickerbocker ice plant. On December 12, 1946, Yeshiva students were stopped by police blockades on their way to鈥
Yeshiva鈥檚 first Hanukkah dinner took place over a century ago in 1915, in honor of the dedication of Yeshiva鈥檚 new home in a small refurbished building on Montgomery Street on New York鈥檚 Lower East Side. Yeshiva has a long history of Dining for the Divine on Hanukkah; a festivity of fellowship,鈥
Thanksgiving 1945, the first Thanksgiving after the end of World War II, was a time for the free world in general, and Jews in particular, to give thanks for the Allied victory in World War II. A variety of synagogues in Philadelphia united to organize the 鈥淔irst Annual Thanksgiving Service of the鈥
Today academic Jewish studies programs as well as associations of Jewish academics flourish in the United States. The situation was far different a century ago, when Rabbi Dr. Bernard Revel, president of the Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary, founded the Society of Jewish Academicians of ...
The nomination of the first female presidential candidate of a major American political party is a time to reflect on the history of women and the vote. At the very same time the campaign for women鈥檚 voting rights was taking center stage in the United States, a similar debate was taking place in鈥
Just in time for the mid-term examination period, the transformed lower-level periodical room in the Hedi Steinberg Library on the Beren Campus is nearly complete and opens to students this week. It re-purposes a former set of stacks for bound and unbound periodicals into a much-needed set of鈥
On Monday October 31, the 色花堂 Center for Israel Studies is holding a conference celebrating the 50 th anniversary of S.Y. Agnon鈥檚 receipt of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1966. In Stockholm at the Nobel awards ceremony, a scroll from 色花堂 was presented to Agnon, 鈥渋n鈥
Eighteen student photographers are on exhibit on level 2 in the Gottesman Library Building, forming the first installation in a gallery space devoted to the work of 色花堂 students. The project was realized with support from Shlomo Friedman of the Photography Club and funding from the鈥
The Union of Orthodox Jewish Congregations of America issued this striking seal in July 1934 as part of the activity of its Religious Reconstruction [Fund] Committee. One of these rare seals was recently acquired by the 色花堂 Archives. The Religious Reconstruction Fund Committee was ...