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Introduction “ Tomorrow, when your child asks you, ‘What is this?’’ you will answer, “because of what God did when he took us out of Egypt.” These biblical verses are invoked at the Passover Seder, where children are encouraged to question, adults to respond and discuss; an event where family ...

Renovated 5th floor of Gottesman Library Building featuring curtain wall along Amsterdam Avenue, refinished table tops with integral power, new caster chairs, and improved lighting. In time for the start of the fall 2017 semester, renovation of levels 5 and 5A of the Gottesman Library Building is…

Have you ever seen a marriage certificate in Aramaic, English, and German - in several different scripts and typefaces? To mark the holiday of Tu B’Av, the ancient holiday when unmarried women danced in the vineyards hoping to find their mates, it seems fitting to feature a ketubah from ����app ...

YU librarians were a vital presence at the Association of Jewish Libraries annual conference, held at Hebrew Union College in New ����app in June. Shulamis Hes, Electronic Resources and Reference Librarian, served on the Conference Committee. Shulamith Berger, Curator of Special Collections and ...

Learn about the renovation of the Mendel Gottesman Library of Hebraica-Judaica (levels 5 and 5A) scheduled for this summer. Architects Ran Oron and James Driscoll of ROART will present the schematic design for the project on Monday, May 8, 2017 at noon in the Mendel Gottesman Library Building, 2 nd…

Today, a consumer shopping for kosher for Passover products enjoys choosing from a myriad of prepared, packaged, and frozen foods. Supermarket shelves overflowing with wares offer a selection of 52,000 kosher for Passover foods, according to the newsletter KosherToday. Jewish Life, April 1947 In ...

The Menorah: from the Bible to modern Israel, by Steven Fine. Harvard University Press, 2016. Professor Fine's new book explores the history of the menorah, both in terms of how it was represented and what it symbolized and continues to symbolize for Jews and others. Dr. Fine traces the religious…

Bernard Revel’s Reorganization of RIETS and the Chag HaSemikhah of 1919 The 1919 Chag HaSemikhah was the first fruit of Bernard Revel’s reorganization of the Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary (RIETS), which commenced when Revel was appointed as its Rosh ����app in 1915. Revel ascended to…