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| New Spring Webinar Series on the Power of Emotion: Judaism and the Inner Life | | | |
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| | | THE TRANSFORMATIVE POWER OF GRIEF |  ONLINE | FEBRUARY 7, 2:00 P.M. ET | | This session with Dr. Rachel Rosenthal will explore 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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| Online Course: A History of Jews and the Left |  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. | | | | | | | |
| | | A SUMMER OF TORAH STUDY IN OUR BEIT MIDRASH | | SESSION A: STARTS JUNE 1; SESSION B: STARTS JULY 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. | | Apply now → | | | | | | |
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| Between the Lines: Author Conversations from The Library of JTS | | | |
| | | MONDAY: 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. | | 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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| You’re Invited: JTS Honors Cantors | | ONLINE | FEBRUARY 2, 3:30 P.M. ET | | Join us online as we honor members of the Cantors Assembly who have served the Conservative Movement and the Jewish people with distinction. | | | | | | | |
| | | 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 religious lives, homes, and institutions. Part of ScholarStream, a learning partnership of the Conservative Movement. | | Register now → | | | | | | |
| | | ONLINE LEARNING FOR TEENS | | ONLINE | STARTS 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. Space is limited. | | Learn more and register → | | | | | | |
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| Online Course on the Haggadah, from the Torah to Your Seder Table | | 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 unclear 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. | | | | | | | |
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| | | JTS ALUMS AWARDED PRESTIGIOUS GRANTS | | Mazal tov to all of the Jewish educators and organizations that have received grants from The Covenant Foundation, including all of the JTS alums: Rabbi Myra Meskin (DS), Rabbi Dr. David Freidenreich (RS), Mollie Andron (DS, KGS), and Rabbanit Dasi Fruchter (CPE). | | Learn more → | | | | | | |
| | | WILLIAM DAVIDSON STUDENT WINS JPRO AWARD | | Mazal tov to Jill Goldstein Smith, a master’s degree student at The William Davidson School, who won a JPro Young Professional Award, which recognizes “outstanding professionals who are dedicated to careers in the Jewish community.” | | Read more → | | | | | | |
| | | HOW ROME SHAPED THE RABBIS | | JTS’s Professor Burton Visotzky speaks with Wall Street International Magazine about how the rabbis were influenced by Rome after the destruction of the Second Temple. | | Read more → | | | | | | |
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| Torah: Holiness in Exile | | | | Sometimes, it’s only amidst a state of flux and uncertainty that redemption is possible, writes Dr. Miriam Feldmann Kaye on Parashat Yitro. | | | | | | | |
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