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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. Jewish Life, April 1947 In ...

The Menorah: from the Bible to modern Israel, by Steven Fine. Harvard University Press, 2016. Professor Fine's new book explores the history of the menorah, both in terms of how it was represented and what it symbolized and continues to symbolize for Jews and others. Dr. Fine traces the religious…

Bernard Revel’s Reorganization of RIETS and the Chag HaSemikhah of 1919 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…

Mordecai Paldiel. Saving One’s Own: Jewish Rescuers during the Holocaust. University of Nebraska/Jewish Publication Society, 2017. Mordecai Paldiel – Adjunct Professor in Jewish History, Stern College for Women – has created a welcome and vital addition to Holocaust scholarship. Saving One’s Own ...

Matthew Silkin, Yaacov Samel & Yoni Kornblau with Rachel Mesch, Associate Professor of English & French, at the opening reception for their Parisian Views: Instagram Discoveries by Yeshiva College Students Parisian Views: Instagram Discoveries by Yeshiva College Students is the most recent…

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 ...

A century ago marked “the first anniversary of the beginning of a new epoch in Jewish education in America.” Rabbi Dr. Bernard Revel had assumed the presidency of the Rabbinical College (Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary – RIETS) a year earlier, and re-organized it, breathing new life into…

Haggai, Zechariah, and Malachi: Prophecy in an Age of Uncertainty, by Rabbi Hayyim J. Angel. Maggid Books, 2016. Rabbi Angel’s new book explores the role of prophecy and the transition from prophecy to rabbinic authority during the early years of the Second Temple period. He addresses important ...