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Blech’s New Book is Reviewed

By On January 8, 2019 · Leave a Comment

Six years ago, Rabbi Benjamin Blech, assistant professor of Bible, was informed that he was suffering from cardiac amyloidosis, a fatal and incurable disease.

The book he has written about this experience, Hope, Not Fear: Changing the Way We View Death, received a laudatory review in the New York Jewish Week by […]

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Blech to Publish Book Exploring End-Of-Life Issues

By On June 7, 2018 · Leave a Comment

Rabbi Benjamin Blech, professor of Talmud, will publish a new book, Hope, Not Fear: Changing the Way We View Death, which explores the question of how to approach the end of one’s life.

The prompt for the book came from a diagnosis Rabbi Blech received that he had a fatal illness which gave him […]

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Blech Publishes New Haggadah

By On December 26, 2016 · Leave a Comment

Rabbi Benjamin Blech, professor of Talmud, has just had his Haggadah (with commentaries) accepted for publication by Koren Publishers. Rabbi Blech has been working on this project for a decade.

The only other Haggadahs published by Koren have been from Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik and from the former Chief Rabbi of the United Kingdom, Rabbi […]

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Blech Presents at AIPAC’s National Rabbinic Symposium

By On September 4, 2014 · Leave a Comment

Rabbi Benjamin Blech, professor of Talmud at Yeshiva University, spoke at the AIPAC’s third National Rabbinic Symposium on September 3 in Washington D.C. The symposium afforded American pulpit rabbis the opportunity to meet and hear insightful leaders and speakers on the topic of United States and Israel relations.

The one day seminar featured sessions and plenary […]

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Blech Honored at 80th Birthday Celebration

By On November 5, 2013 · Leave a Comment

Rabbi Benjamin Blech, associate professor of Talmud at Yeshiva University, was honored at a celebration of his 80th birthday in Weissberg Commons on October 30.

The event commemorated Blech’s 47 years of teaching at YU and included remarks by President Richard M. Joel, University Professor of Jewish History and Jewish Thought Rabbi Dr. Jacob J. Schacter […]

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Blech Speaks at Fifth Worldwide Meeting on Human Values

By On October 31, 2013 · Leave a Comment

Rabbi Benjamin Blech, professor of Talmud at Yeshiva University, spoke at the Fifth Worldwide Meeting on Human Values, which took place from October 17-19 in Monterrey, Mexico.

Titled “Human Values and Universal Consciousness: A Path to Oneness,” the conference featured renowned speakers from more than 10 countries and many religions to address an audience of […]

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