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| HIGH HOLIDAY WEBINARS | 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. | Learn more → | |
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| JTS OPEN CLASSROOM | 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. | Learn more → | |
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| NEW: ONLINE LEARNING FOR TEENS | 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. | Learn more → | |
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Context: Immersive Jewish Learning for Adults | 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 |
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| THE PROTEST LITERATURE OF MIZRAHI WRITERS | 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. | Register now → | |
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| ALEXANDER, WAS HE GREAT? | 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. | Register now → | |
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| THE STORIES THAT OBJECTS TELL | 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. | Register now → | |
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JTS in the Berkshires: "Spiritual Leadership for a New Era" | 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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| "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. | Read more → | |
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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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