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Monday Learning: Jewish Journeys, Real and Imagined |
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| | MONDAY: THE IDEA OF THE RETURN TO ZION IN JEWISH HISTORY |  ONLINE | JUNE 7, 2:00 P.M. ET | | In the first session of our summer learning series, Chancellor Schwartz explores the implications of living in a state of longing, how Jews attempted to reconcile the dream of return with the reality of exile, and how this dream was adapted and transformed with the emergence of modern Zionism and a thriving Jewish diaspora. | | Register now → | |
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| Support Community Learning at JTS | | | We’re committed to bringing high-level Jewish learning to people everywhere. You can partner with us by sponsoring one or more sessions to honor a loved one, celebrate an occasion, or commemorate a yahrtzeit. | |
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| BETWEEN THE LINES: AUTHOR CONVERSATIONS FROM THE LIBRARY OF JTS
JEWISH BIBLE TRANSLATIONS | | ONLINE | JUNE 9, 1:00 P.M. ET | | Author Leonard J. Greenspoon will discuss his book, Jewish Bible Translations: Personalities, Passions, Politics, Progress, in which he highlights distinctive features of Jewish Bible translations and offers new insights regarding their shared characteristics and their limitations. | | Register now → | |
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| | JUNETEENTH THROUGH THE EYES OF JEWS OF COLOR | | ONLINE | JUNE 17, 8:00 P.M. ET | | JTS’s Hendel Center for Ethics and Justice will partner with Congregation Agudath Israel in Caldwell, NJ, the RA, and USCJ for this discussion with several Jews of color in significant Jewish communal leadership roles, including JTS rabbinical student Kendell Pinkney. JTS Finkelstein Fellow Ruth Messinger will give introductory remarks and JTS alum Rabbi Ari Lucas will moderate. | | Learn more and register → | |
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| Study this Summer with JTS |  ONLINE | SESSION II: JUNE 1; SESSION III: JULY 6 | | JTS offers exceptional online summer classes, both for credit and non-credit study. Course topics include Hebrew language, rabbinic literature, Israeli literature, and more. | |
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| | TACKLING “SHYLOCK” | | JTS alum Doug Brook (DS) is featured in a play that is a twist on Shakespeare's “The Merchant of Venice” and its famously troubling antisemitism. Says Brook: “We’re taking something hard and starting a dialogue that can be meaningful based on it.” | | Read more → | |
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| Torah: Contempt for God’s Word? | | | Rabbi Gordon Tucker asks: What does it really mean to show contempt for the word of God? And more on Parashat Shelah Lekha. | |
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