Revel’s fourth annual Shabbaton, held on April 26-27th, Shabbat Parashat Emor, in Washington Heights, proved to be a wonderful enhancement for the Revel student community, bringing together Revel students of all majors in an informal setting with Professors Mordechai Cohen and Daniel Rynhold.

A team of young scholars that seek to place textual analysis at the forefront of academic halakhah scholarship came to Revel to participate in a symposium on Tuesday evening, April 16th 2013. Around 65 Revel students, alumni, and faculty, as well as other guests, gathered to hear from members of the Graduate Workshop on Jewish [...]

The Bernard Revel Graduate School invites you to a Symposium: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Halakhic Texts by members of the Graduate Workshop on Jewish Law and Methodology, a multi-disciplinary team of young scholars that explores new ways to place textual analysis at the forefront of halakhah scholarship. Its members include doctoral students at the Hebrew University [...]

Two conventionally held historical beliefs were challenged by Professor Adam Teller in his recent presentations as a Visiting Scholar at Revel on Wednesday, February 27: (1) that Polish-Lithuanian Jews lived in social isolation from their Christian neighbors; and (2) that the printing press was, in and of itself, an engine of radical social and intellectual [...]

The practice of repeating the word זכר (z-kh-r) in Parshat Zakhor, once as zekher, with a segol under the zayin, and once as zeikher, with a tzeirei under the zayin, is par for the course in Ashkenazi synagogues. Sefardim, who do not distinguish between the pronunciations of the aforementioned Hebrew vowels, read the word only [...]

All Revel students, faculty and alumni are cordially invited to a special dinner and lecture. Professor Adam Teller of Brown University, will be speaking on the topic of Print, Power, and Prestige: The Polish-Lithuanian Rabbinate and the Book in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries on Tuesday, February 26 at 8PM in Furst Hall Room 535.

On Monday, December 10th, Professor Meir M. Bar-Asher of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem spent the evening as a visiting scholar at the Bernard Revel Graduate School of Jewish Studies. Bar-Asher, a leading expert on Shiite Islam and Qur’an interpretation, was invited by Associate Dean Mordechai Cohen to deliver the second in this year’s Revel [...]

All Revel students, faculty and alumni are cordially invited to a special dinner and lecture that Revel is hosting as part of our guest-lecture series. Professor Meir Bar-Asher of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, a world expert on Islam, will be speaking on the topic of Parallel Illumination: Saadia Gaon on the Bible in Light [...]

Join us for An Evening in Memory of Amos Hakham on Thursday, November 15th from 8:00-9:00pm in Furst Hall Room 535. Of humble origins, Amos Hakham became an instant celebrity when he won the first International Bible Contest (חידון התנ”ך העולמי) in 1958. He was “more famous than Yaakov Hodorov,” then the Israeli national soccer [...]