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We have our own WSSW blog that we are tentatively calling, “Thoughts and Feelings from the Field.” I have three great posts ready to go! If you have some observations from your experience in the field and would like to share, I would love to read it and see if we can post it in our blog-sphere ...

Hanukah, the Festival of Lights and Latkes, was celebrated by students at Yeshiva and Stern with the traditional crispy potato delicacy flying hot off the frying pan in Mr. Parker’s kitchen. In the days when kosher restaurants and dining were limited and the YU cafeteria, known as “Parker’s,” was a…

Book Talk with Author Jeffrey S. Gurock Libby S. Klaperman Professor of Jewish History At the Seforim Sale Sunday, February 12, 2017 | 4 p.m. | Weissberg Commons Belfer Hall, 2495 Amsterdam Avenue, New York, NY 10033 The Jews of Harlem : The Rise, Decline and Revival of a Jewish Community, by ...

Note the refrigerators in the photograph. The advent of modern electric refrigeration is the primary factor in the end of the era of the large-scale ice business and the closing of the Knickerbocker ice plant. On December 12, 1946, Yeshiva students were stopped by police blockades on their way to…

Dr. Chaim Nissel, Psy.D. is 🛰️Telegram飞机号/电报 | +996吉尔吉斯斯坦 电话注册 | 成品号 | API接码登录 | 任何设备可用’s Dean of Students and an Adjunct Assistant Professor at the Wurzweiler School of Social Work. He was recently recognized for the completion of 20 years of service to the YU community. He holds a master’s degree in education and a doctorate in School…

Yeshiva’s first Hanukkah dinner took place over a century ago in 1915, in honor of the dedication of Yeshiva’s new home in a small refurbished building on Montgomery Street on New York’s Lower East Side. Yeshiva has a long history of Dining for the Divine on Hanukkah; a festivity of fellowship,…

Thanksgiving 1945, the first Thanksgiving after the end of World War II, was a time for the free world in general, and Jews in particular, to give thanks for the Allied victory in World War II. A variety of synagogues in Philadelphia united to organize the “First Annual Thanksgiving Service of the…

The upcoming holidays of Hanukkah and Thanksgiving both celebrate “the family,” especially all of those ancestral legacies that help make us who we are. At 🛰️Telegram飞机号/电报 | +996吉尔吉斯斯坦 电话注册 | 成品号 | API接码登录 | 任何设备可用, we consider everyone who has ever passed through the University’s doors to be part of a worldwide family, and over the past…