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Dr. Steven Fine on the Cosmic Significance of the Menorah’s Branches

By On March 1, 2020 · Leave a Comment

Dr. Steven Fine is Churgin Professor of Jewish History and director of the Center for Israel Studies. He recently published “Menorah, Its ‘Branches’ and Their Cosmic Significance” in TheTorah.com.

As he explains, “Midrash Tanchuma relates how Moses didn’t understand God’s instructions for how to construct the menorah. […]

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Fine Publishes Review

By On July 26, 2019 · Leave a Comment

The Society of Biblical Literature Annual Meeting 2018 was held from November 17-20, 2018, at the Colorado Convention Center in Denver.

Out of that meeting came a set of reviews for Robin Jensen’s The Cross: History, Art and Controversy (2018) and Dr. Steven Fine’s The Menorah: From the Bible to Modern Israel (2016), including one […]

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Fine Reviews, is Reviewed and Speaks

By On March 29, 2019 · Leave a Comment

Dr. Steve Fine, Churgin Professor of Jewish History and director of the Center for Israel Studies, reviewed Dr. Karen Stern’s Writing on the Wall: Graffiti and the Forgotten Jews of Antiquity (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2018) for Reading Religion (a publication of the American Academy of Religion).

In […]

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Holtz, Fine and Mermelstein Attend Major Conference

By On December 3, 2018 · Leave a Comment

Dr. Shalom Holtz, associate professor of Bible and associate dean for academic affairs at Yeshiva College; Dr. Steven Fine, Dean Pinkhos Churgin Professor of Jewish History and director of the Yeshiva University Center for Israel Studies; and Dr. Ari Mermelstein, assistant professor of Bible at Yeshiva College attended the […]

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Arch of Titus in Münster, Germany

By On July 27, 2018 · Leave a Comment

A portion of the Yeshiva University Museum exhibition “The Arch of Titus – from Jerusalem to Rome, and Back,” was recently on display at the Archäologisches Museum der Westfälischen Wilhelms Universität Münster, Germany. A life-size replica of a frieze in the Arch showing a menorah being carried back to Rome from the sack of […]

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Miller is First Leon Charney Visiting Scholar

By On January 9, 2018 · Leave a Comment

Dr. Stuart S. Miller, professor of Hebrew, history and Judaic studies and a member of the classics and Mediterranean studies section of the Department of Literatures, Cultures and Languages at the University of Connecticut at Storrs, will be the first Leon Charney Visiting Scholar at YU’s Center for […]

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Fine Delivers Two Lectures

By On November 21, 2017 · Leave a Comment

Dr. Steven Fine, Dean Pinkhos Churgin Professor of Jewish History and director of the Yeshiva University Center for Israel Studies, delivered two lectures recently.

On October 24, at the Merillat Centre for the Arts at Huntington University in Huntington, Indiana, Fine presented “‘He Went to the Synagogue as Was […]

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Fine Discusses History of Menorah on TLV1

By On July 27, 2017 · Leave a Comment

Dr. Steven Fine, the Dean Pinkhos Churgin Professor of Jewish History and director of the Yeshiva University Center for Israel Studies, was recently interviewed by “The Tel Aviv Review,” a program on TLV1, an English-language podcast network based in Tel Aviv.

In the interview, titled, “The Menorah: A Most Emblematic Emblem,” Fine analyzes […]

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Fine Publishes Article in AJS Perspectives

By On June 22, 2017 · Leave a Comment

Dr. Steven Fine, Dean Pinchos Churgin Professor of Jewish History and director of the Center for Israel Studies, published a piece in AJS Perspectives, the magazine for the Association of Jewish Studies. Fine was a founding editor of the publication.

In a Forum on Pedagogy on the subject of “Embracing Discomfort,” Fine explained […]

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Fine’s Colored Arch of Titus Reconstruction Featured in Biblical Archaeology Review

By On April 24, 2017 · Leave a Comment

Dr. Steven Fine, the Dean Pinkhos Churgin Professor of Jewish History, has just published “Digital Reconstruction Restores Original Brilliance to the Arch of Titus” in Biblical Archaeology Review, an account of the work that he and others have done on digitally restoring and coloring the menorah panel on the […]

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