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By Erika P. Schon Just over a year ago in June, faculty and staff were busy packing boxes at Baltimore Hebrew University, sifting through decades of history.  Dusty boxes were unearthed from the basement, overflowing with archival materials waiting to be sorted, and old photographs and memorabilia that spoke of 90 years of venerable history in the annals of Jewish education.  Next door to the president’s office, a rising mountain of discarded paper destined for the shredder threatened to hit the ceiling, a reminder of the old way of storing information prior to the invention of the hard drive.  With its painted cinderblock classrooms, library dumb-waiter and jerry-rigged internet connections,  BHU was definitely “old school”,  but held a special place in my heart.  The building had surely served us well, nurturing the scholarship of some of the finest minds… read more