Missing Your Pre-Passover Shopping?

From the YU Museum Blog (March 24, 2020) While we prepare for Passover six or more feet away from one another, we can longingly appreciate this David Dzienciarski painting of a Market Before Passover from Yeshiva University Museum’s collection (gift of the artist’s estate). Created around 1970, the work depicts a crowded street in the […]

Blech Publishes Passover Haggada

New Book by Rabbi Benjamin Blech Offers Commentary and Insight into Themes of Seder Night This Pesach, a new book by Rabbi Benjamin Blech, professor of Talmud at Yeshiva University, integrates his unique insight into the traditions and themes of Seder night with the complete text of the haggada. Titled Redemption, Then and Now: Pesah Haggada (Menorah […]

Nine Tips to Enhance Your Seder

Azrieli Dean Rona Novick on Creating a More Meaningful Passover Experience for Guests of All Ages A seder is a wonderful opportunity for families to share the incredible experience of the exodus from Egypt. But keeping family members and guests who range in age from toddler to great-grandparent interested as they sit at the same […]

The Meaning of Freedom

Rabbi Sacks to Keynote April 17 Kollel and Midreshet Yom Rishon Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks, Kressel and Ephrat Family Professor of Jewish Thought, will be the featured speaker at a special Abraham and Millie Arbesfeld Kollel and Midreshet Yom Rishon event hosted by Yeshiva University’s Center for the Jewish Future on April 17, 2016. The lecture will […]