New York

 New York Governor Kathy Hochul signed the “buffer bill,” enacting new legislation designed to protect worshippers from harassment and intimidation outside houses of worship.

One hundred years ago, in the summer of 1926, Jerusalem scholar Rabbi Dr. Samuel Kalman Mirsky sailed to New York at the invitation of Dr. Bernard Revel, founding president of Yeshiva University. That August, Samuel Kalman Mirsky was named Yeshiva University’s very first official hire as professor in the fields of Jewish Philosophy, Hebrew Literature and Jewish History, as well as a RIETS faculty member.