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| New Spring Webinar Series on the Power of Emotion: Judaism and the Inner Life | | | |
| Join us for a series of discussions that explore the perception of emotions in Jewish texts and offer surprising and useful insights for understanding the feelings that make up our inner worlds. You can view all of the sessions here. | | | |
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| | | TRUST, FRUSTRATION, AND CONFUSION IN THE PSALMS |  ONLINE | JANUARY 31, 2:00 P.M. ET | | Dr. Benjamin Sommer examines the “psalms of crisis” in the Book of Psalms, and discusses several theories about the main emphasis of these psalms—whether complaint, plea, or sudden change of mood. He will connect those theories to varied conceptions of prayer in Jewish tradition. | | Register now → | | | | | | |
| | | THE TRANSFORMATIVE POWER OF GRIEF | | ONLINE | FEBRUARY 7, 2:00 P.M. ET | | In this session, Dr. Rachel Rosenthal will explore some rabbinic sources that focus on grief and the ways that the rabbis use it to transform their circumstances and their communities. | | Register now → | | | | | | |
| | | LOVE DURING THE HOLOCAUST | | ONLINE | FEBRUARY 14, 2:00 P.M. ET | | Join Dr. Edna Friedberg to explore the varied manifestations of love—romantic, parental, platonic—at a time of terror and loss. | | Register now → | | | | | | |
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| New! Online Learning for Teens |  ONLINE | BEGINS FEBRUARY 1 | | JTS is excited to pilot an online course for teens this winter. “The Origins of Human Difference” will bring together teens from across North America to access classical Jewish texts and find contemporary meaning in the Jewish tradition. The course includes six sessions. | | | | | | | |
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| Between the Lines: Author Conversations from The Library of JTS | | | |
| | | MONDAY: REMEMBERING KHURBM: THE FORGOTTEN GENOCIDE | | ONLINE | JANUARY 10, 1:00 P.M. ET | | Join author Alexander Gendler when he talks about his book, KHURBM 1914-1922: Prelude to the Holocaust: The Beginning. The collection of eyewitness testimonies and other sources reveal the destruction of Jewish life by the Russian army during World War I. | | Register now → | | | | | | |
| | | TUESDAY: EMBERS OF PILGRIMAGE | | ONLINE | JANUARY 11, 7:30 P.M. ET | | JTS’s Dr. Eitan Fishbane will discuss his book, Embers of Pilgrimage, a collection of original poems incorporating imagery from the Zohar and other Jewish mystical works. | | Register now → | | | | | | |
| | | SANCTIFIED SEX | | ONLINE | JANNUARY 24, 12:30 P.M. ET | | Author Noam Zion will discuss his book, Sanctified Sex, which draws on 2,000 years of rabbinic debates addressing competing aspirations for loving intimacy, passionate sexual union, and sanctity in marriage. | | Register now → | | | | | | |
| | | WHEN I GROW UP | | ONLINE | JANUARY 26, 7:30 P.M. ET | | Join author Ken Krimstein when he discusses his book, When I Grow Up, a graphic narrative based on newly discovered, never-before-published autobiographies of Eastern European Jewish teens on the brink of WWII—found in 2017 hidden in a Lithuanian church cellar. | | Register now → | | | | | | |
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| Prospective Students: Take a Virtual Tour of JTS | | | | We invite you to explore the beautiful JTS campus, designed to foster a warm, inspiring community where Jewish learning and living are intertwined. Click on the JTS logos throughout the tour to learn more about each space. | | | | | | | |
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| | | JEWS AND THE LEFT: A HISTORY | | ONLINE | STARTS FEBRUARY 7, 7:30 P.M. ET | | Explore the relationship between Jews and left-wing politics in Europe, the Land of Israel, and the United States, from the French Revolution until the fall of Communism. Eight Mondays with Dr. David Fishman. | | Register now → | | | | | | |
| | | PASSOVER JOURNEYS: FROM THE TORAH TO YOUR SEDER | | ONLINE | STARTS FEBRUARY 22, 7:00 P.M. ET | | By examining biblical and ancient rabbinic texts as well as medieval versions of the Haggadah, participants in this course will come to appreciate the Haggadah as not simply a rag-tag collection of difficult passages, but rather as a creative text that seeks to tell the Passover story in a uniquely rabbinic way. Six Tuesdays with Dr. Robert Harris. | | Register now → | | | | | | |
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| | | SHMITAH AND ORGANIZATIONAL CHANGE | | William Davidson student Elyssa Hurwitz writes in eJewish Philanthropy about using the Shmitah year as a model for Jewish organizations. “Shmitah asks us what it means to not just be Jewish individuals, but to be a Jewish people,” she writes. | | Register now → | | | | | | |
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| Torah: The Next Generation | | | | Even at the time of the Exodus, Moshe underlines the significance of passing the story down through the generations to come, writes Kekst Graduate student Dov Kahane on Parashat Bo. | | | | | | | |
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