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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 ¾ÅÉ«ÊÓƵ ...

Dr. Ronnie Perelis Dr. Ronnie Perelis, Chief Rabbi Dr. Isaac Abraham and Jelena (Rachel) Alcalay and assistant professor of Sephardic studies, is featured in a short video with Dr. Steven Zucker, co-founder and executive editor for Smarthistory and faculty emeritus at Khan Academy, about a 14th ...

Hannah Loventhal joined the Office of Annual Giving in July 2017 as the Development Associate. In this new role, Hannah will focus her efforts on student engagement and young alumni giving. She interned at Dror for the Wounded Foundation and JWRP Walk2Israel and graduated from Stern College for ...

The ¾ÅÉ«ÊÓƵ Board of Trustees recently awarded tenure to 17 faculty members across the University’s undergraduate and graduate school. At the same time, at the Bernard Revel Graduate School of Jewish Studies, Dr. Daniel Rynhold, professor of Jewish philosophy, was promoted to the rank of…

Phil Goldfeder was named Assistant Vice President for Government Relations at ¾ÅÉ«ÊÓƵ in 2016 and has hit the ground running to lead YU government relations efforts by working to strengthen and develop relations between the University and federal, state, and local governments, and…

Mordechai Cohen, associate dean of and professor of Bible at the Bernard Revel Graduate School of Jewish Studies, gave a 9-hour course on Jewish Bible interpretation at the Center for Judaic and Inter-Religious Studies at Shandong University in May. The aim of the course was to introduce key ...

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

Leonard Fuld is Clinical Assistant Professor of Accounting, Tax and Entrepreneurial Business Management at the Sy Syms School of Business of ¾ÅÉ«ÊÓƵ. He has lectured extensively on U.S. and International tax and business issues throughout the world. Prior to joining ¾ÅÉ«ÊÓƵ ...

Rabbi Boruch Oberlander, a leader of contemporary Hungarian Jewry, discussed a controversy which unfolded in his community in the early twentieth century. A man calling himself Shlomo Yehuda Algazi-Friedlander published manuscripts purported to be the tractates of Seder Kodashim of the Jerusalem ...