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June 9, 2022

Stories and Storytelling: Summer Webinar Series

Starting Monday, June 20, at 1:00 p.m., JTS scholars will explore stories drawn from ancient, rabbinic, medieval, and modern Jewish literature and how they transmit values, norms, culture, and information across time and space. The first two sessions are below. Learn more.

(FAR FROM) ALL ABOUT EVE

ONLINE | JUNE 20, 1:00 P.M. ET

There are yawning gaps in the story of Eve in Genesis, and the diverse ways that readers fill those gaps engender remarkably divergent interpretations. Dr. Alan Cooper asks what we learn about biblical storytelling when we confront a text that can be interpreted in diametrically opposite ways.

TELLING DIFFICULT STORIES: PHILIP ROTH'S "OPERATION SHYLOCK"

ONLINE | JUNE 27, 1:00 P.M. ET

Philip Roth’s Operation Shylock gives expression to discomforts in Diaspora identities vis-à-vis Israel during the First Intifada. Join Dr. David Kraemer in exploring Roth’s recounting of the conflicts of this time, as Jews asked questions that are as pertinent today as they were then.

JTS in the Berkshires

LENOX, MA | JULY 29 AND AUGUST 12, 11 A.M. ET

Join JTS scholars for inspiring learning in the beautiful Berkshire Hills of Massachusetts.

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In the Media

FIRST CONSERVATIVE WOMAN RABBI TAKES STOCK

In JWeekly, Rabbi Amy Eilberg looks at what's been achieved since the Conservative ordination of women and where the Jewish community must do more to achieve full equality and inclusion for all.

CONSERVATIVE RABBIS ANSWER CALL FOR NON-BINARY LANGUAGE

JTA describes new rabbinic guidance on language for nonbinary Jews to be called for Torah honors.

RABBINICAL STUDENTS PUSH FOR FOSSIL FUEL DISINVESTMENT

JTS students Sarah Rockford and Andy Weissfeld, Dayenu fellows, write in eJP about pressuring companies to move away from fossil fuel investment.

INTERVIEW WITH NEW PRESIDENT OF RABBINICAL ASSEMBLY

JTS alum Rabbi Harold Kravitz speaks to the Forward about intermarriage, Israel, ansemitism, and more.

Torah: Speaking with God

When the Torah tells us God speaks, what exactly does that mean? Dr. Benjamin Sommer on Parashat Naso.

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