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New York Herald, December 27, 1859Professor Ronald and Miriam Rubin Judaica Americana Collection The Library is now the proud home of a treasured collection of Judaica Americana, a gift of early American newspapers meticulously gathered by Professor Ronald Rubin. The papers date…

Professor Ronald Rubin donated an illuminating and extensive collective of American newspapers to the Mendel Gottesman Library. The papers date from 1734 to 1869, thus covering the Colonial era, the Revolutionary War, and the Civil War and its immediate aftermath. The collection is unique in its ...

What constitutes being a “member of a tribe”? Most individuals identify as being part some larger group; the group forms part of a person’s sense of self and frequently provides a feeling of belonging and pride. In Lech Lecha, this past week’s Torah portion, God commands Abraham to circumcise all…

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Rabbi Mitchell Serels looks on as Miriam Weiner unpacks cartons of books from her Sephardic Collection that she is contributing to , 1996 The diverse Hebraica-Judaica holdings of Libraries including a broad representation of languages, places, and dates ...

LibraryBM675.O25 S35 1953 It is traditional for Jews to pray for the welfare of the country they reside in and for its leaders to be blessed with health and wisdom to rule justly. Regime change is often a cause for potential instability in any form of government, thus it is an ...

Do you remember marching with your friends at the Student Struggle for Soviet Jewry (SSSJ) rallies in the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s? You can now easily recapture those days of activism, the era of the fight to free Soviet Jews trapped in Russia under the Communist regime, simply by using the internet…

National Archives Building, Washington, D.C., 1935 Current efforts to retrieve U.S. government records have brought the mission and functions of the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) to the fore. NARA serves as a mentor to the archival community with regards to best practices for…

On Tuesday, September 13 at 8:00 PM (EDT) via Zoom, Mitchell First will discuss the prayer "Aleinu" with a focus on two passages and the role of the prayer in the larger context of the liturgy: Who authored the "Aleinu" prayer? Was its origin the Rosh Hashanah service? When and why did "Aleinu" ...