Meyer London’s matzo bakery’s Jewish almanac for 1930-1931 proudly portrays four generations of men lavishing praise on the sixty year old company’s matzo. At first glance, the ad with the cartoon style sketches of four faces evokes traditional Haggadah illustrations of the four sons of the Seder; a closer look reveals that the […]

February 2018 marks the centennial of The Jewish Forum, a monthly magazine founded in February 1918 by Dr. Solomon T. H. [Theodor Ha-Levy] Hurwitz.

 The Jewish Forum served as the voice of the emerging modern Orthodox, English speaking Jewish community in New York and beyond. A column in the souvenir issue (December […]

Today, a consumer shopping for kosher for Passover products enjoys choosing from a myriad of prepared, packaged, and frozen foods. Supermarket shelves overflowing with wares offer a selection of 52,000 kosher for Passover foods, according to the newsletter KosherToday.

In 1947, seventy years ago, the nascent kosher food market proudly proffered two frozen foods […]

The 1919 Chag HaSemikhah was the first fruit of Bernard Revel’s reorganization of the Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary (RIETS), which commenced when Revel was appointed as its Rosh Yeshiva in 1915. Revel ascended to the position at the recommendation of Rabbi Moses Zevulun Margolies (the Ramaz), who presented Revel […]

At the tender age of four, the Commentator published its first Purim issue on March 1, 1939.  The initial Purim edition was also the Commentator’s first foray into the use of color.  The red ink may have referred to the Commentator’s nickname, the “Commie,” and was presumably chosen to match the article “Dies Committee Exposes […]

The recent Presidential inauguration has sparked curiosity regarding the relationships of our nation’s Chief Executives with Yeshiva University during the course of our institution’s history. Below is a selection of interesting findings from the collections of Yeshiva University Archives:

The earliest correspondence with a U.S. President dates back to 1927 in a letter from President […]