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Moshe Halbertal | Yale University Press | 2020 Reviewed by Rabbi Dr. Stu Halpern Moshe Halbertal’s Nahmanides: Law and Mysticism (translated by Daniel Tabak) provides a robust and nuanced study of one of Judaism’s most iconic medieval thinkers. Halbertal, a professor at both Hebrew University and…

Dr. Naomi Grunhaus The Drs. Kenneth Chelst, Bertram Schreiber and Fred Zwas Book Grant is designed to foster scholarship among the faculty of Yeshiva College and Stern College for Women by facilitating the publication of scholarly books and enabling faculty to pursue research, engage in ...

By Tamar Yastrab ’21S Computer Science Major Co-organizer of Event Coding the ins and outs of a project At 10:15 p.m. on Motzei Shabbat, May 1, 2021, Yeshiva University computer science students of all levels gathered in the Gottesman Library on the Wilf Campus for HackYU2021, Yeshiva University’s…

After a year of COVID-19, a pandemic hopefully receding for good, three professors at the Bernard Revel Graduate School of Jewish Studies shared some varied reflections related to pandemics. Over fifty participants joined in the virtual event on Wednesday, May 5, 2021, titled “Magefah: Pandemics ...

Cardozo News Prof. Richard H. Weisberg Assuming Emeritus Status in Spring 2021 Prof. Kathryn Miller Quoted in Law360 Prof. Ekow Yankah Writes in SCOTUSBlog about Terry v. United States, the Final Case for the 2020-21 Term Prof. Deborah Pearlstein Joins BBC Newshour to Discuss International Travel…

ISSUE 25 • May 10, 2021 Note from the Executive Director To the Class of 2021: You are extraordinary. Your senior year was different than any you could have imagined when you began at YU. Yet here you are, graduating in person, after a year that was, all at the same time, online, in person ...

By Dr. Chaya Sima Koenigsberg Resident Scholar Straus Center A page from the Golden Haggadah On Wednesday, April 28, the Zahava and Moshael Straus Center for Torah and Western Thought hosted Dr. Marc Michael Epstein, the Mattie M. Paschall and Norman Davis Chair of Religion and Visual Culture at ...

Dr. Joshua Zimmerman The Drs. Kenneth Chelst, Bertram Schreiber and Fred Zwas Book Grant is designed to foster scholarship among the faculty of Yeshiva College and Stern College for Women by facilitating the publication of scholarly books and enabling faculty to pursue research, engage in ...

By Wendy Kosakoff Public Services and Outreach Librarian Congratulations to Elisabeth Kohn ’21S, our 2021 YU Student Library Research Award Winner. Elisabeth is a political science major. Her paper, “German Attitudes Towards the United States Under Donald Trump’s Presidency, Based on German ...

Having been denied an in-person dinner in 2020 because of the restrictions brought on by COVID-19, the Sy Syms School of Business pushed to make this year’s Gala Awards Dinner one where people could meet together and celebrate. And on Monday, May 3, 2021, they achieved their goal, holding the event…