In November 1979, 52 Americans were captured and held hostage at the U.S. Embassy in Teheran by Iranian militants. Three months later, the Iranian revolutionaries invited a humanitarian delegation to visit Iran. Rabbi Hirshel Jaffe was one of the 50 American delegates chosen to undertake this momentous eleven-day mission. Join us to hear about his experiences and for an engaging discussion on resilience and faith.

Read about three of the Price Library’s rare Haggadahs and their historical significance in “The Conversation”

Thanks to the Judaica Library’s ongoing partnership with Ariel Abramovich, an Argentinian journalist and editor, and various Jewish institutions and publishers in Argentina, we can now offer online open access to the previously inaccessible Jewish journal, La Luz: Revisita Quincenal Literary Hebrea (The Light: Biweekly Hebrew Literary Magazine). Originally founded in 1931 by Don David Elnecavé, this magazine has been edited by three generations of the Sephardi Elnecavé family through to 2015.