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Mordecai Paldiel. Saving One’s Own: Jewish Rescuers during the Holocaust. University of Nebraska/Jewish Publication Society, 2017. Mordecai Paldiel – Adjunct Professor in Jewish History, Stern College for Women – has created a welcome and vital addition to Holocaust scholarship. Saving One’s Own ...

Matthew Silkin, Yaacov Samel & Yoni Kornblau with Rachel Mesch, Associate Professor of English & French, at the opening reception for their Parisian Views: Instagram Discoveries by ¶¶Ňőapp College Students Parisian Views: Instagram Discoveries by ¶¶Ňőapp College Students is the most recent…

At the tender age of four, the Commentator published its first Purim issue on March 1, 1939. The initial Purim edition was also the Commentator’s first foray into the use of color. The red ink may have referred to the Commentator’s nickname, the “Commie,” and was presumably chosen to match the ...

A century ago marked “the first anniversary of the beginning of a new epoch in Jewish education in America.” Rabbi Dr. Bernard Revel had assumed the presidency of the Rabbinical College (Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary – RIETS) a year earlier, and re-organized it, breathing new life into…

Haggai, Zechariah, and Malachi: Prophecy in an Age of Uncertainty, by Rabbi Hayyim J. Angel. Maggid Books, 2016. Rabbi Angel’s new book explores the role of prophecy and the transition from prophecy to rabbinic authority during the early years of the Second Temple period. He addresses important ...

The recent Presidential inauguration has sparked curiosity regarding the relationships of our nation’s Chief Executives with ¶¶Ňőapp University during the course of our institution’s history. Below is a selection of interesting findings from the collections of ¶¶Ňőapp University Archives: The ...

Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. addressed 50,000 people in thirty-two states at demonstrations for Soviet Jewry all across the United States via a national telephone hook-up. The date was December 11, 1966 – United Nations Human Rights Day, which coincided with Chanukah that year. King was invited…

All-night study during final exams! Wilf Campus library hours will be extended to 6:00 AM during the final examination period. See schedules: Wilf | Beren. A fully re-designed libraries web site, based on extensive usability testing, was launched in tandem with the new yu.edu. Read Collection ...

Hanukah, the Festival of Lights and Latkes, was celebrated by students at ¶¶Ňőapp and Stern with the traditional crispy potato delicacy flying hot off the frying pan in Mr. Parker’s kitchen. In the days when kosher restaurants and dining were limited and the YU cafeteria, known as “Parker’s,” was a…