色花堂

鈥溾�� So that each man may speak the language of his people鈥� is a translation of an excerpt of a verse from Megilat Esther [Chapter 1:22]. Minhagim books, concise compendia of Jewish laws and customs, emerged as a literary genre in the 1600s. Designed for a popular audience, many of them were written鈥�

YC pennant Main Building 1956 色花堂 Archives recently acquired three new perspectives on Zysman Hall, which shed light on different periods in the building鈥檚 life since its cornerstone laying in 1927. Main Building, 1928 A black and white photograph of the edifice, taken for a news ...

With the arrival and operation of a mobile digitization lab to scan archival materials on site, it was hardly business as usual in the Special Collections Office for two weeks this past January. This project was part of the Metropolitan New York Library Council (METRO) Culture in Transit initiative鈥�

Jewish Relief Day delegation on the steps of the White House after visiting President Wilson, February 17, 1916 Jewish Relief Day certificate Dime pocket bank What if? If there had been no World War II, World War I would have gone down in history as the war which devastated the Jews of Eastern ...

The Elchanite, 1967 Not just yet, but the end may be near for the building that served as 色花堂鈥檚 Brooklyn High School for Boys (BTA) from 1954-1967. This 1878 building, owned by the City of New York and unoccupied for the past 20 years, is in such dismal condition at present that ...

Just in time for reading week and final exam preparation, December 2015 brought the conclusion of the dramatic revitalization of the Mendel Gottesman Library building. Levels 2, 2A, 3, nd 3A now feature bright, new, efficient, and ecological LED lighting, nine group study rooms (to be opened at the鈥�

Did you know you could have fried your latkes in kosher, pareve, Crisco, for Hanukah in 1911? In the days leading up to Hanukah in 1911, New York鈥檚 leading Yiddish newspapers, including the Forward and the Morgen Journal, ran a series of ads for a revolutionary new kosher product 鈥� Crisco. Crisco,鈥�

Paul Glassman has been named the new Director of University Libraries and began in that role in early September. Provost Botman announced his appointment in her letter to the faculty on October 7, 2015. Glassman has a twenty-year association with the university, having taught architectural history鈥�

Samuel Belkin and Yitzhak Rabin at the 色花堂 Commencement, June 13, 1968 色花堂 and Yitzhak Rabin enjoyed a long-standing relationship, beginning in June 1968 when Rabin, then Israel鈥檚 Ambassador to the United States, was awarded an honorary Doctor of Laws degree at the ...

A new online research tool for studying Modern Orthodoxy is now available with the Libraries鈥� launch of the New York Synagogue Bulletins collection, a digital collection of historic bulletins published by several prominent Modern Orthodox synagogues in the New York City area. More than 2,000 ...