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Blow the Shofars of Freedom SSSJ September 1980 In September 1980 the Student Struggle for Soviet Jewry (SSSJ) called for a massive symbolic shofar blowing ceremony at the Soviet UN Mission. SSSJ sent letters to rabbis immediately before Rosh Hashanah, urging them to encourage congregants to join…

From Within the Tent : the Weekday Prayers (Mitokh Ha-Ohel: tefilot khol) : Essays by the Rabbis & Professors of ����app University. The Michael Scharf Publication Trust of ����app University Press; Maggid Books, 2014. Mitokh Ha-Ohel includes contributions from members of the ����app and ...

Commentator - September 22, 1954 We extend a warm welcome to all of our new and returning students. The library is here to help, so please don’t forget to Ask-the-Library. http://www.yu.edu/Libraries/Ask-the-Library/ In September 1954, sixty years ago, Stern College greeted its first freshman class…

This woodcut is from a Yiddish Minhagim book (book of customs) published in Amsterdam in 1723 by Herts Levi Rofe. It depicts prayers in the synagogue on the fast of Tish’ah be-Av (9 th day of Av), the day of mourning for the destruction of the First and Second Temples in Jerusalem. Note the flames…

The Tragedy of a Generation : the Rise and Fall of Jewish Nationalism in Eastern Europe, by Joshua M. Karlip. Harvard University Press, 2013. This book explores a serious attempt at an alternate, non-religious expression of Jewish identity that took place in the last 150 years. Today the chief…

May 1958 was a month of “firsts” at four-year-old Stern College. The inaugural issue of the First Step, the College’s fledgling journalistic endeavor, was published. The paper reported on Stern’s first graduating class of twenty-six students, Eleanor Roosevelt’s “Stern College Month” fireside chat…

Dr. Jacob Birnbaum passed away on April 9, 2014, after this was posted. May his family be comforted among the mourners of Zion and Jerusalem. המקום ינחם אותם בתוך שאר אבלי ציון וירושלים On Passover, Jews celebrate the Exodus from slavery in Egypt. May 1, 2014 marks the 50th anniversary of the birth…

Have you ever looked for items in the Library catalog, only to find that one was “available” in Pollack, the next was “in Library use” in the Rare Book Room, the third was “non-circulating” in Gottesman Reference, and the last was “on reserve” in Stern? “Now what,” you asked yourself, “how am I…

Mordechai’s ceremonial ride in regal regalia on a royal horse through the town of Shushan, heralded by Haman at the command of King Ahashverosh, marks a turning point in the story of Purim. The scribe Binyamin Ze’ev (Wolff Jacob) ben Elyakum Getsel Kats of Kempen, depicted the scene in a manuscript…

The YU Libraries have just launched an upgraded version of the YULIS catalog. With its new look and its enhanced functionality, YULIS now more closely resembles web search engines that are familiar to you from your online activities such as shopping and, of course, using the ubiquitous Google. The…