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| THE BIBLE AND “OTHER GODS” | ONLINE | FEBRUARY 1 | Join Dr. Benjamin Sommer to examine the Bible’s attitude toward the gods of other nations and how, paradoxically, the Bible remains monotheistic even while it acknowledges the existence of many deities. | Register now → | |
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A Summer of Torah Study | ONLINE | SESSION I: JUNE 1-JULY 1; SESSION II: JULY 6-AUGUST 5 | 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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| HAZON’S BIG BOLD JEWISH CLIMATE FEST | ONLINE | JANUARY 27-31 | Everyone is welcome to attend this exciting event, to be held next week during Tu Bishvat. We’re proud that session leaders include multiple JTS rabbinical students as well as JTS’s Dr. David Kraemer, Rabbi Daniel Nevins, and Rabbi Gordon Tucker. | Learn more and register → | |
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| DAILY LIFE IN MEDIEVAL CAIRO | ONLINE | FEBRUARY 9 | What was daily life like for the middling inhabitants of medieval Fustat-Cairo? Using fragments of the Cairo Genizah from The JTS Library collection, Princeton University Professor Marina Rustow will explore this fascinating period, a time when 90 percent of Jews lived in the Islamic world. | Learn more → | |
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| THE MEANINGS OF THE TABERNACLE | ONLINE | STARTS FEBRUARY 16 | Learn how features of the Tabernacle, and the temples in Jerusalem, were reinterpreted as powerful Jewish symbols for post-Temple times, including our own. With Dr. Alan Cooper. | Register now → | |
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| JERUSALEM AND THREE RELIGIONS | ONLINE | STARTS FEBRUARY 16 | This course, led by Dr. Benjamin Gampel, will examine the ways in which the historical claims to Jerusalem of the three monotheistic religions mirror each other and how present-day struggles are rooted in their assertions of religious truth. Held in partnership with the 92nd Street Y. | Register now → | |
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| DIFFICULT EMOTIONS IN RABBINIC LAW | ONLINE | STARTS MARCH 10 | Explore how the rabbis treated suffering, shame, and despair in their legal texts, and what the law’s relationship to emotion can and should be. With Dr. Sarah Wolf. | Register now → | |
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| ALUM NAMED TO WEXNER FOUNDATION FELLOWSHIP | Mazal tov to Mindy Schachtman (LC ’02, KGS ’16) on being named a Wexner Foundation Field Fellow. The Fellowship goes to “promising Jewish professionals who plan to continue to pursue careers as professional leaders in the North American Jewish community.” | Read more → | |
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Torah: Raise Your Right Hand | | The most powerful ritual in American life is the oath of office administered to our President, writes Rabbi Daniel Nevins. And more on Parashat Bo. | |
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