February 25, 2021 Michael Bettencourt On Wednesday, Feb. 17, 2021, the Azrieli Graduate School of Jewish Education and Administration, along with the Bernard Revel Graduate School of Jewish Studies and the Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary (RIETS) and supported by the Shevet Glaubach Center鈥
February 18, 2021 Michael Bettencourt What does it mean to belong to, then abandon, and then return to a community? On Wednesday, Feb. 10, 2021, over 500 people who had registered on Zoom had the pleasure and privilege of hearing Dr. Ari Berman, President of 麻豆区, and Dr. Ephraim ...
Rebecca, Miriam, and Denise (L-R) Denise Zami currently teaches Tanakh to 9th and 11th grades at SAR High School in Riverdale. She is also studying towards her MA in Bible Studies at Revel. Denise received her BA in Jewish Education from Stern College, where she was a Legacy Heritage Scholar.鈥
Meet the three Zami sisters studying at Revel: Denise Zami currently teaches Tanakh to 9th and 11th grades at SAR High School in Riverdale. She is also studying towards her MA in Bible Studies at Revel. Denise received her BA in Jewish Education from Stern College, where she was a Legacy Heritage鈥
Dr. Ephraim Kanarfogel, E. Billi Ivry University Professor of Jewish History, Literature, and Law at the Bernard Revel Graduate School of Jewish Studies, has published Brothers from Afar: Rabbinic Approaches to Apostasy and Reversion in Medieval Europe, with Wayne State University Press, which has鈥
By Dean Daniel Rynhold Today is Remembrance Sunday in the UK, when we honor the contributions of British and Commonwealth servicemen and women. I did not expect that it would also become a day on which I would, with deep sadness, also be honoring the memory of Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks. The sheer鈥
BRGS was pleased to welcome Dr. Susan Weissman for the first PhD 鈥渮oom鈥 lunch of the semester on October 22, 12:30PM-1:30PM. Dr. Weissman, who is a graduate of BRGS and chair of the Judaic Studies Department at Lander College for Women, discussed her new book Final Judgement and The Dead in鈥
The Chinese-Jewish Conversation (CJC) held its fifth event, 鈥淣ew frontiers of Torah U-Madda: Chinese and Jewish Ecological Values,鈥 on March 3, 2020, with the support of the Katz School of Science and Health, the Provost鈥檚 Colloquium Initiative, and the Bernard Revel Graduate School of Jewish ...
The Rule of Peshat: Jewish Constructions of the Plain Sense of Scripture and Their Christian and Muslim Contexts, 900鈥1270 by Mordechai Z. Cohen was just been published by University of Pennsylvania Press: Click here ABSTRACT: This volume sheds new light on the vibrant medieval tradition of peshat鈥
by Michael Bettencourt Dr. Ronnie Perelis 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鈥