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August 5, 2022

High Holiday Webinars
HIGH HOLIDAY WEBINARS
location   ONLINE  |  MONDAYS, SEPTEMBER 12 AND SEPTEMBER 19, 1:00 P.M.–2:30 P.M. ET
Join JTS in preparing for this year’s High Holiday season with two meaningful and enriching sessions.
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JTS Open Classroom
JTS OPEN CLASSROOM
location   AT JTS  |  APPLICATIONS ACCEPTED UNTIL AUGUST 11
We invite you to join our students for graduate-level Jewish study when you audit a JTS course.
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Hitlamdut: A Unique Opportunity for Current Judaic Studies Teachers
HITLAMDUT: A UNIQUE OPPORTUNITY FOR CURRENT JUDAIC STUDIES TEACHERS
This special fellowship enables coursework in pedagogic content knowledge, reflective practice, and curriculum design.
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Virtual Library Visit: A 1749 Venetian Ketubbah
VIRTUAL LIBRARY VISIT: A 1749 VENETIAN KETUBBAH
JTS curator of Jewish art, Sharon Lieberman Mintz, discusses the richly decorated ketubbah and its artistic highlights. The document is part of “To Build a New Home: Celebrating the Jewish Wedding,” the inaugural exhibit of the new Library of JTS.
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New: Online Learning for Teens
NEW: ONLINE LEARNING FOR TEENS
location   ONLINE  |  WEDNESDAYS, STARTING SEPTEMBER 7 AT 7:30 P.M. ET
Starting this fall, we're delighted to offer a full year of online courses for teens across North America. This innovative program will bring together students from diverse backgrounds to access classical Jewish texts and find contemporary meaning in the concepts and values of Jewish tradition. Teens can sign up for individual classes or the whole year.
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Context: Immersive Jewish Learning for  Adults
Context: Immersive Jewish Learning for Adults
location   ONLINE | WEDNESDAY EVENINGS STARTING IN SEPTEMBER 2022
Context is now online! For those not in the New York area, join us online for an intellectual journey across the sweep of Jewish civilization and its major texts.
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Stories and Storytelling: Monday Learning Continues

The Protest Literature of Mizrahi Writers
THE PROTEST LITERATURE OF MIZRAHI WRITERS
location   ONLINE  |  AUGUST 8, 1:00 P.M. ET
How did protest literature written by different generations of Mizrahi writers give voice to their experience in Israeli society? Join Dr. Beverly Bailis, adjunct associate professor of Jewish Literature, to learn how writers have articulated the complexity of Mizrahi identity from the 1950s to today.
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Alexander, Was He Great?
ALEXANDER, WAS HE GREAT?
location   ONLINE  |  AUGUST 15, 1:00 P.M. ET
Adjunct assistant professor Dr. Benjamin Levy will explore the ways that the rabbis of late antiquity lampooned Alexander the Great and stories of his "greatness" to define a Jewish identity in distinction to the morals of Rome.
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The Stories That Objects Tell
THE STORIES THAT OBJECTS TELL
location   ONLINE  |  AUGUST 22, 2022, 1:00 P.M. ET
Dr. Barbara Mann, the Chana Kekst Professor of Jewish Literature, discusses the stories that objects tell. Her areas of expertise include Israeli and Jewish literature, cultural studies, modern poetry, critical theory and urban studies, literary modernism, and the fine arts.
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JTS in the Berkshires: Spiritual Leadership for a New Era
JTS in the Berkshires: "Spiritual Leadership for a New Era"
location   LENOX, MA | AUGUST 12, 11:00 A.M.
Through an exploration of classical and contemporary texts, Rabbi Ayelet S. Cohen, JTS’s dean of The Rabbinical School and Division of Religious Leadership, will share her vision for the future of Jewish leadership.
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In the Media

Two JTS Rabbis and Their Profound Impact on One Woman's Experience
TWO JTS RABBIS AND THEIR PROFOUND IMPACT ON ONE WOMAN'S EXPERIENCE
In "Kaddish, Revised," Rebecca Sonkin writes about her grieving process.
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What Is A Jew? Radio Program
"WHAT IS A JEW?" RADIO PROGRAM
Chancellor Emeritus Ismar Schorsch spoke with the NY Jewish Week about radio host Larry Josephson, who recently passed away. Rabbi Schorsch appeared on Josephson's program for several years.
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Torah Commentary
Torah: Moses’s Retirement Speech
For most, a retirement speech is an occasion for warm reminiscences. Moses, writes Dr. Raymond Scheindlin on Parashat Devarim, takes a different approach.
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