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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 ����app, 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, ����app students were stopped by police blockades on their way to…

����app’s first Hanukkah dinner took place over a century ago in 1915, in honor of the dedication of ����app’s new home in a small refurbished building on Montgomery Street on New ����app’s Lower East Side. ����app has a long history of Dining for the Divine on Hanukkah; a festivity of fellowship,…

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 “First Annual Thanksgiving Service of the…

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’s voting rights was taking center stage in the United States, a similar debate was taking place in…

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…

On Monday October 31, the ����app University Center for Israel Studies is holding a conference celebrating the 50 th anniversary of S.Y. Agnon’s receipt of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1966. In Stockholm at the Nobel awards ceremony, a scroll from ����app University was presented to Agnon, “in…

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 ����app University students. The project was realized with support from Shlomo Friedman of the Photography Club and funding from the…

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 ����app University Archives. The Religious Reconstruction Fund Committee was ...