Did you know that even before the moon landing in 1969, Yeshiva had a “moonrock” of its own? In May 1960, Dr. Irvin Rock, chairman of the experimental psychology department of the Graduate School of Education, simulated the moon on the roof of Stern of Stern College. His experiment explained why the moon […]

Israeli stateswoman Golda Meir’s first documented connection with Yeshiva University was in June 1948, only two weeks after the founding of the State of Israel, an event which the students of Yeshiva celebrated and documented in the pages of the Commentator.

A telegram in the Yeshiva University Archives dated June 3, 1948, from Golda Myerson […]

“Esther,” the name of the heroine of the Purim story, means hidden.  Some of the megillot, the scrolls which tell the story of Esther and Purim, contain hidden blessings. A little known genre of Jewish folk art is the format of the presentation of the blessings recited upon reading the Megillah.  Some Megillah scrolls reveal a […]

“Big Brother is Watching Them. Our Brothers are Waiting for Us,” was the message of the Student Struggle for Soviet Jewry in 1984. Today you are welcome to watch and listen to Soviet Jewry activists reminisce about their efforts to breach the Iron Curtain here.

The Soviet Jewry Oral History Project was initiated by […]

What images do you conjure up when you imagine Sefer Shemot [Exodus], which we start reading in the synagogue this week?  In the 1720s, an anonymous artist illustrated the opening page of this lavish volume of Shemot with scenes of baby Moses on the Nile, and the adult Moses besting Pharaoh’s magicians in the […]