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Reimagining Religious Schools | ONLINE | MAY 6, 4:00 P.M. ET | Join us for a conversation with four alumni changemakers who are reimagining learning and engagement in synagogue religious schools. For educators, parents, and anyone interested in Jewish education. | |
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| SUNDAY: RACIAL JUSTICE AND JEWISH VALUES | ONLINE | MAY 2, 6:30 P.M. ET | Join JTS scholars for the Seventh Annual JTS Evening of Learning to explore how Jewish texts and tradition enrich our understanding of and response to racial injustice. Hosted by the Greater Washington Jewish community, open to all. | Register now → | |
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Monday Learning: The ‘Other’ in Jewish Text and Tradition |
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| JEWISH RESPONSES TO MARGINALIZATION | ONLINE | MAY 10, 2:00 P.M. ET | How has the experience of marginalization defined Jewish identity? Join Rabbi Daniel Nevins to look at classical Jewish texts and then consider their implications for the role of Judaism in addressing marginalization in contemporary contexts. | Register now → | |
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Study this Summer with JTS | ONLINE | SESSION II: JUNE 1; SESSION III: JULY 6 | JTS offers exceptional online summer learning opportunities, both for credit and non-credit study. Course topics include Hebrew language, rabbinic literature, Israeli literature, and more. | |
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| ATTAINING HAPPINESS AND DEVELOPING CHARACTER | ONLINE | STARTS MAY 6, 1:00 P.M. ET | Join us in this online course with Rabbi Eliezer Diamond to learn the approach of the Mussar tradition, which posits that to achieve a state of contentment we need to acquire dispositions and habits that can give our life meaning and balance. | Register now → | |
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| BETWEEN THE LINES: AUTHOR CONVERSATIONS FROM THE LIBRARY OF JTS CRUSHING THE RED FLOWERS | ONLINE | MAY 13, 7:30 P.M. ET | Author Jennifer Voigt Kaplan will discuss her novel, Crushing the Red Flowers, which tells the story of how two ordinary boys cope under the extraordinary circumstances of Kristallnacht. | Register now → | |
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CityStage: Performing Arts Program for Teens | ONLINE | JUNE 27–JULY 11 | We’re now accepting applications for CityStage, JTS’s unique pre-college summer institute, where rising 10th, 11th, and 12th graders explore the intersection of theater and Jewish identity led by experts in the field. | |
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| OPEN HOUSE: TEEN JEWISH LEARNING | ONLINE | MAY 2, 10:00 A.M. ET | Join our virtual open house and learn how JTS helps teens access classical Jewish texts, improve their Hebrew, and find contemporary meaning in the Jewish tradition. | Register now → | |
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| BETWEEN THE LINES: AUTHOR CONVERSATIONS FROM THE LIBRARY OF JTS THESE ARE THE DEVELOPMENTS OF THE HUMAN | ONLINE | MAY 25, 7:30 P.M. ET | Ethan Daniel Davidson will discuss his book, These are the Developments of the Human, a compilation of wisdom and insights that he captured over years of studying Jewish texts with rabbis and other learners from across the world. | Register now → | |
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A Summer of Torah Study in our Beit Midrash | ONLINE | SESSION A: JUNE 1; SESSION B: JULY 6 | This summer, immerse yourself in Torah learning with our Nishma program, where you’ll cultivate the skills to learn classical Jewish sources including Talmud, Midrash, halakhah, Hebrew, and parshanut (Torah and its commentaries). Two four-week sessions. | |
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| PROFESSOR INTERVIEWED FOR CAIRO GENIZA FILM | JTS’s Dr. David Kraemer appears in the film From Cairo to the Cloud: The World of the Cairo Geniza, which discusses “what is arguably one of the most significant historical discoveries of the last century-and-a-half,” he says. A substantial portion of the fragments discovered in the Cairo Geniza are in The JTS Library’s collection. | Read more → | |
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Torah: Struggling to Celebrate | | Sometimes our personal circumstances can make it hard to celebrate the holidays. The Mishnah’s got something to say about that, writes Rabbi Naomi Kalish. And more on Parashat Emor. | |
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