Kol Hamevaser

05/23/2021

Kol Hamevaser is proud to present Volume XIII Issue 1: "The Individual and Community"
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1UsC9-Ig-ZAhwjDwb71mmAV-eE1v-qG3K/view?usp=sharing

Check out articles written by Shayna Herszage, Daphna Ziffer, Chaim Book, David Schmidt, Yehuda Dov Reiss, Tani Finkelstein, Yosef Rosenfield, Shoshana Berger, Gabriel Gross, Adina Bruce and Zachary Ottenstein.

Thank you as well to editors and layout editors: Hannah Adler, Ariel Hahn, Romi Harcsztark, Aharon Nissel, Meira Prager, Deborah Coopersmith and Sara Weiss.

An additional thank you to Ilana Aidman for designing the cover art.

04/27/2021

Are you a Yeshiva University undergraduate student with a love for visual art?
Kol Hamevaser is seeking an artist to design our cover for the upcoming edition. The theme is "The Individual and Community," with much room for interpretation.
Contact Shayna Herszage at [email protected] and/or Adina Bruce at [email protected] if interested!

03/01/2021

Kol Hamevaser is back, and we want YOU to write for us! The theme for this semester's edition is "The Individual and Community," and we are seeking writers of a wide variety. If you are a YU undergraduate student, YU graduate student, or YU faculty member with an interest in writing an article, contact Shayna Herszage at [email protected], Adina Bruce at [email protected], or message this page directly.
Not sure what to write?
See below our list of recently published books, available at the YU Library, and consider writing a review:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1R1lXnAWIRkyM9GkzONWKfLOI4_nt_IQlwkDc9-S-TMs/edit?usp=sharing
Or... check out our growing document of potential article ideas:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1fSv0vQpqxy1Xv8lsTFSpOSA11rf1Nq4WRvkIGk-gq5I/edit?usp=sharing
Fill out this form if you are interested!
https://forms.gle/x2NpGegdXbRx11Gn9

01/26/2021

Kol Hamevaser is back, and we need the YU student body's help! Fill out this form to sign your support of YU's Judaic journal, and pass it on to your friends!*
*filling out this form is NO COMMITMENT. You are not signing up for anything and you are not applying for anything. You are just saying you're fine with it being a club.

Kol Hamevaser is back, and we need the YU student body's help! Fill out this form to sign your support of YU's Judaic journal, and pass it on to your friends!* *filling out this form is NO COMMITMENT. You are not signing up for anything and you are not applying for anything. You are just saying you'...

01/04/2021

If you are a YU undergraduate student, apply to be on staff for the upcoming semester of Kol Hamevaser! We are seeking editors and layout staff.
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScC-KPuCNJU5N-ca4L__3J-wQV8nzKu7esBYF7xsA1TJkpfvQ/viewform?usp=sf_link

04/07/2019

Orthodox spaces frequently divide themselves into men's spaces and women's spaces, none more blatantly than the synagogue and its ubiquitious mehitsah. Why is this the case? Zahava Fertig dives in.

By: Zahava Fertig Every shul has a different type of mehitsah: some shorter, some taller, some prettier, some plainer, some with one sided mirrors, some with slats some all the way up to the ceilin…

04/07/2019

Shavua tov! Whether you've been longing to return to Tzfat or if you're bewildered by its existence, Sara Schatz brings the city of mysticism into the spotlight.

http://kolhamevaser.com/2019/04/03/is-tzfat-part-of-our-mesorah?-an-analysis-of-one-of-the-most-popular-cities-in-israel/

04/05/2019

Sifrei kodesh are not exclusively Jewish spaces, argues David Selis.

What does it mean for the Jewishness of the Hebrew book that one can find translations of the Babylonian Talmud and many other rabbinic texts which do not include the Hebrew and Aramaic original an…

04/05/2019

Shayna Herszage examines the multifaceted nature of the focal space of Jewish learning, the beit midrash, from Rabbinic times to the current day.

Since their establishment in Mishnaic times, batei midrash have been spaces not only for Torah-fueled arguments, but also for Torah-fueled interpersonal relationships, friendships that are rooted i…

04/04/2019

Can the doctrine of negative attributes apply to spaces as well? Read Noah Marlowe's musings on the subject!

Yihud, in turn, represents the paradigmatic form of environmental manipulation to prevent (sexual) sin. And those who keep the laws of yihud, I argue, develop and cultivate a non-yihud space. The…

04/04/2019

The Mishkan was an ideal space, right? Rochel Hirsch highlights one view that challenges this assumption.

http://kolhamevaser.com/2019/04/03/from-be-khol-makom-to-ve-asu-li-mikdash:-seforno-on-the-tabernacle/

04/04/2019

Is Furst Hall an ugly monolith or a powerful symbol of resilience? Is Zysman Hall really meant to look like a mosque? Dr. Jess Olson is our tour guide to explore the meaning in the Wilf Campus' architecture.

As I reiterate to my students each semester as we sit in our Furst classroom and contemplate the vicissitudes of Jewish modernity, it is, in its own unassuming way, another jewel of our campus.