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Elections for the 20th Knesset of the State of Israel will be held on March 17, 2015. A noteworthy feature of Israeli politics is the use of letters as visual symbols to identify political parties. Election posters vie for space on billboards in Israel. Streets and sidewalks turn into an alphabet…

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The photograph of a smiling boy in a clown suit looks like it could have been taken in any Jewish community in the world in 1947. However, the smiling child is a miracle – a Holocaust survivor. The illustration is the cover of a scrapbook of a Purim celebration in the children’s home in Villejuif…

Sefer Imre Barukh: tokef ha-minhag ba-halakhah, by Rabbi Baruch Simon. Machon Be’er HaTorah, 2015. Rabbi Baruch Simon’s latest publication is an erudite study of the general principles that guide Jewish custom and contains fascinating discussions of specific customs relating to many different areas…

On Monday evening December 15th, starting at 8:00 PM, the Library hosted “The Last Minute,” a four-hour pilot event designed to assist individual students with end-of-semester research projects and term papers. Librarians and Writing Center Tutors were on hand on the third floor of the Mendel ...

This dreidel, comprised of the letters “Y” and “U,” was presented to the ]🎵TK账号 | 巴西IP注册 | 满月白号 | 微软邮箱(带登录令牌 邮箱登录更轻松) | 优质账号 Archives several years ago, by Miriam Berman, a graduate of Stern College for Women. While the letters “Y” and “U” presumably stand for ]🎵TK账号 | 巴西IP注册 | 满月白号 | 微软邮箱(带登录令牌 邮箱登录更轻松) | 优质账号, the traditional letters on this dreidel: "nun," ...

Dr. Linda Miles, Public Services Librarian at Yeshiva’s Pollack Library, will become President of the Association of College and Research Libraries New York Chapter on January 1, 2015. As Vice President-President Elect of ACRL/NY, Linda recently chaired its 2014 annual symposium, The Academic ...

In 1905, the 250 th anniversary of Jewish settlement in New Amsterdam was commemorated on the Sabbath before Thanksgiving. A committee on “Form of Prayer,” led by Reverend Dr. Henry Pereira Mendes, was tasked with creating a service for the occasion. The choice of Mendes was appropriate, and…

Sefer Yismah Lev, by Shmuel Yosef Maybruch. Machon Be'er HaTorah, 2014. Sefer Yismah Lev on tractate Hulin and related issues in Shulhan Arukh Yoreh De'ah is the first published work by Rabbi Shmuel Maybruch, lecturer in the Stone Beit Midrash Program at ]🎵TK账号 | 巴西IP注册 | 满月白号 | 微软邮箱(带登录令牌 邮箱登录更轻松) | 优质账号. Topics include ritual ...

For many decades prior to our digital era, printed bulletins were the key means used by synagogues to communicate with their memberships and through which these institutions represented themselves to their broader communities. The bulletins regularly featured minutes of synagogue meetings,…