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Bernard Revel Year in Review: 2020-2021

On September 21, 2021 · In Faculty, Student and Alumni Profiles, Lectures and Activities, News, Publications, Research

It was a great honor and deeply humbling to succeed Dean David Berger in July 2020 and take the reins as the Dean of the Bernard Revel Graduate School of Jewish Studies.

When I signed on to do so in late February 2020, I was not expecting to spend much of my first year […]

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Dr. Ronnie Perelis Receives a Grant for Translating the Americas

On May 21, 2020 · In News, Research

by Michael Bettencourt

Dr. Ronnie Perelis, Chief Rabbi Dr. Isaac Abraham and Jelena (Rachel) Alcalay Associate Professor of Sephardic Studies, and Dr. Flora Cassen, associate professor of history and associate professor of Jewish, Islamic, and Middle Eastern studies at Washington University in St. Louis have received a Cross-Institutional Cooperative Grant from the American Academy for Jewish […]

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S.Y. Agnon Brought to Life by Rabbi Jeffrey Saks in a Newly Completed 15-Volume English Translation (Toby Press)

On April 19, 2018 · In Faculty, Student and Alumni Profiles, Lectures and Activities, News, Publications, Research

By Rona Steinerman

On April 10, 2018 the Bernard Revel Graduate School hosted Rabbi Jeffrey Saks (Revel MA 1994), who spoke about S.Y. Agnon, his contribution to Hebrew literature, and the challenges of editing and translating the Nobel Prize winner’s works. In high school, Saks received a copy of S.Y. Agnon’s “Twenty-One Stories” from his […]

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Cohen Speaks About Biblical Interpretation

On March 14, 2018 · In Faculty, Student and Alumni Profiles, Lectures and Activities, Research

By On March 12, 2018

Dr. Mordechai Cohen, professor of Bible, associate dean of Bernard Revel Graduate School of Jewish Studies and divisional coordinator of academic Jewish studies at Yeshiva College, recently delivered a lecture about research he conducted as the head of a […]

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Interpreting Scriptures in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam: Overlapping Inquiries

On March 7, 2018 · In News, Publications, Research

In 2010/11, Dr. Mordechai Cohen headed a fourteen-member research group of distinguished scholars from America, Europe, and Israel at the Institute for Advanced Studies in Jerusalem. Their study aimed to bring to light aspects of interpretive approaches to sacred scriptures in the three faith traditions that remain hidden until set in relation to […]

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