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It is traditional for Jews to pray for the welfare of the country they reside in and for its leaders to be blessed with health and wisdom to rule justly. Regime change is often a cause for potential instability in any form of government, thus it is an auspicious time for the Jewish community […]
Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Chief Justice of Harmonia, at Cardozo School of Law, 1995
“Oyez, oyez, oyez! The International Constitutional Court of Harmonia is now in session,” Chief Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg presiding. If you haven’t heard of Harmonia, you’re not alone: Harmonia was a construct, an imaginary country created for a hypothetical […]
Rabbi Dr. Norman Lamm, Yeshiva University’s long-time Rosh Yeshiva, President (1976-2003), and Chancellor (2003- 2013), died on May 31, 2020.
Rabbi Dr. Lamm was born in Brooklyn in 1927, just as the Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary was moving uptown from the immigrant neighborhood of the Lower East Side, its home since 1886, to […]
William B. Helmreich, eminent sociologist, and a 1967 graduate of Yeshiva University, has died, a victim of the Covid-19 virus. A noted scholar of Jewish life in America, his book Against All Odds: Holocaust Survivors and the Successful Lives They Made in America utilized information from the National Council of Jewish Women Records, a […]
Today, it is de rigueur for modern Orthodox student to spend a “gap” year or two studying in yeshivas in Israel after they finish high school, prior to starting their college studies. Ninety years ago, in 1929, two RIETS (Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary) students decided to attend the Knesset Israel (Slabodka) Yeshiva in […]
The Yeshiva University Library mourns the passing of our colleague Leah Adler, who served as Head Librarian of Hebraica and Judaica at the Mendel Gottesman Library for over thirty years. She was a scholar’s librarian who ushered the library into the digital age and who played a key role in the comprehensive renovation of the […]
Yeshiva University published this announcement in memory of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in the New York Times on April 10, 1968, six days after his tragic assassination on April 4, 1968, and a day after his funeral on April 9.
In addition to the notice in the Times, Yeshiva University had issued a press […]
June 6 marks the 50th anniversary of the tragic, violent, death of Robert F. Kennedy, at the hands of assassin Sirhan Sirhan, who shot Kennedy on June 5, 1968. Kennedy, a New York State Senator at the time of the shooting, was murdered while campaigning for the Democratic Party’s presidential nomination. Kennedy had just won […]
Did you know that Philip Roth, who died yesterday at age 85, spoke at Yeshiva University in 1962, as part of Yeshiva University’s 75th anniversary celebration? The University organized a year-long series of events in conjunction with its Diamond Jubilee. The Symposium, “A Study in Artistic Conscience: Conflict of Loyalties in Minority Writers […]
The Mendel Gottesman Library commemorates the 75th yahrzeit, or anniversary, of the death of Mendel Gottesman, which took place on December 16, 1942. A portrait of Mr. Gottesman hangs on the wall of the newly renovated fifth floor of the Mendel Gottesman Library. The Library was named for Mendel Gottesman in 1937, eighty years […]
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