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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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| Book Talk: Sanctified Sex |  ONLINE | JANUARY 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. Part of Between the Lines: Author Conversations from The Library of JTS. | | | | | | | |
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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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| Book Talk: 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. Part of Between the Lines: Author Conversations from The Library of JTS. | | | | | | | |
| | | WHEN JEWS MADE FELLOW JEWS ‘OTHER’: HASIDISM AND ITS OPPONENTS | | ONLINE | FEBRUARY 2, 8:00 P.M. ET | | Dr. David Fishman will study the conflict between the Hasidim and Mitnagdim and reflect on how the core principles of the dispute continue to shape our Jewish lives and guide our homes and institutions. Part of ScholarStream, a learning partnership of the Conservative Movement. | | Register now → | | | | | | |
| | | 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. | | Learn more and register → | | | | | | |
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| Torah: Remembering the Unspeakable | | | | Seventy years after the Holocaust, we are fulfilling the commandment to remember, writes Rabbi Nicole Wilson-Spiro on Parashat Beshallah. | | | | | | | |
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