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| 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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| 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. | | | | | | | |
| | | STARTS TUESDAY: 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 → | | | | | | |
| | | 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 → | | | | | | |
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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 → | | | | | | |
| | | 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. | | 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. | | | | | | | |
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| | | RESPONDING TO COLLEYVILLE | | Rabbi Joshua Ladon, a doctoral degree student in the William Davidson School, writes in JTA about how to respond to the hostage situation in Colleyville. “How do we maintain our safety without closing the door to one of our most sacred obligations, welcoming the stranger,” he writes. | | Read more → | | | | | | |
| | | REMEMBERING PAULA HYMAN (Z”L) | | Read in JewishBoston.com about Paula Hyman (z"l), the first woman dean of JTS’s Seminary College of Jewish Studies (today’s List College) and her life’s work in scholarship, teaching, and activism. | | Read more → | | | | | | |
| | | 40 YEARS OF BIBLE STUDY | | Watch this CBS segment on JTS alum Rabbi Dr. Ronald Androphy (RS, KGS), who launched a Bible study course in 1983 at East Meadow Beth-El Jewish Center. Forty years later, the group will finally finished learning the entire Hebrew Bible, beginning with Genesis and finishing with the Books of Chronicles. | | Watch now → | | | | | | |
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| Torah: The Director’s Craft | | | | Even God needs a good director on the ground. Enter Moses, writes rabbinical student David Shmidt Chapman on Parashat Mishpatim. | | | | | | | |
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