Also, don’t miss JTS at Hazon’s Big Bold Jewish Climate Fest next week.

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JTS - EVENTS AND LEARNING

January 21, 2021

Monday Learning Series

MONDAY: STORIES ABOUT WOMEN IN THE TALMUD
location   ONLINE   |   JANUARY 25
Dr. Judith Hauptman will present several short episodes of women in the Talmud and explore their significance, both historically and through the present day.
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THE BIBLE AND “OTHER GODS”
location   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.
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A Summer of Torah Study
location   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
location   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.
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JTS Library Events

BETWEEN THE LINES: AUTHOR CONVERSATIONS FROM THE LIBRARY OF JTS
LEGACY OF BLOOD: JEWS, POGROMS, AND RITUAL MURDER IN THE LAND OF THE SOVIETS
location   ONLINE   |   FEBRUARY 1
Author and historian Elissa Bemporad joins us to discuss her book Legacy of Blood, which explores the afterlife of the two most extreme manifestations of tsarist antisemitism—pogroms and blood libels—in the Soviet Union, from the Revolution of 1917 to the early 1960s.
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DAILY LIFE IN MEDIEVAL CAIRO
location   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.
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Online Mini-Courses

THE MEANINGS OF THE TABERNACLE
location   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.
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JERUSALEM AND THREE RELIGIONS
location   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.
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DIFFICULT EMOTIONS IN RABBINIC LAW
location   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.
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In the Media

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.”
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THE JTS ALUM WHO IS “JOE BIDEN’S RABBI”
Read about Rabbi Michael Beals (RS ’97), who blessed Joe Biden before his inauguration this week.
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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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