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| New! Online Learning for Teens |  ONLINE | FIRST COURSE BEGINS NOVEMBER 2, 7:30 P.M. ET | | We are delighted to bring JTS learning to teens across North America. Students can sign up for one or more courses throughout the year. | |
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Don't miss out. Sign up now for fall courses with JTS scholars.
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| | CONVERSION TO AND FROM JUDAISM |  ONLINE | EIGHT MONDAYS STARTING OCTOBER 24, 7:00 P.M. ET | | In this online course, Dr. Benjamin Gampel investigates the history of conversion both into and out of Judaism in the Christian and Islamic worlds, from late antiquity to the first stirrings of modernity in western Europe. | | Register now → | |
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| | THE PARADOX OF UKRAINIAN JEWISH HISTORY | | ONLINE | NINE TUESDAYS STARTING OCTOBER 25, 7:30 P.M. ET | | For centuries, Ukraine was both a major center of Jewish life and cultural vitality, and also the site of brutal anti-Jewish violence. In this online course, Dr. David Fishman examines this paradox. | | Regsiter now → | |
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| | TREASURES FROM THE JTS LIBRARY | | AT JTS | SIX WEDNESDAYS, STARTING OCTOBER 26, 7:00 P.M. ET | | Join Dr. David Kraemer at The Library of JTS to explore rare Library materials and the stories they tell about Jewish life through the ages. View siddurim from Germany, marriage contracts from Egypt, and illuminated Haggadot from Italy. Space is limited. | | Register now → | |
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| | CONSERVATIVE/MASORTI TRAINING IN BRIT MILAH | | JTS | SUNDAY, OCTOBER 23–THURSDAY, OCTOBER 27 | | The Rabbinical Assembly and JTS invite you to take part in a course of Jewish liturgy, law, ritual, and theology concerning brit milah. For practicing physicians and healthcare professionals with extensive training and experience performing circumcisions. | | Learn more → | |
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| | BETWEEN THE LINES: INSIDE JEWISH DAY SCHOOLS | | ONLINE | WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 27, 7:30 P.M. ET | | JTS's Dr. Jack Wertheimer will discuss his new book, Jewish Day Schools: Leadership, Learning, and Community. Co-authored with Alex Pomson, the book addresses questions such as: What revolutionary changes characterize current day schools as compared to those of the 20th century? What do we know about the impact of day school education? And why is day school education so costly? | | Register now → | |
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| | GUIDED TOURS: THE JEWS OF CORFU | | JTS | OCTOBER 25, NOVEMBER 8, SEPTEMBER 29, NOVEMBER 17 | | Visit The JTS Library to view a selection of rare materials that tell the fascinating history of Corfu’s vibrant but little-known Jewish communities. | | Register now → | |
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| Don't Kvetch, Organize | | | "Why worry privately and not be able to act, when you can worry collectively and act wisely to do something about it?" JTS's Rabbi Stephanie Ruskay writes about an upcoming program teaching organizing skills to synagogue leaders. | |
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| | JTS ALUM WILL LEAD LEO BAECK INSTITUTE | | Markus Krah, who earned his doctorate at JTS's Kekst Graduate School, was named the next executive director of the famed research library and archive focused on the history of German-speaking Jews. | | Read more → | |
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| | JTS ALUM TO SPEAK AT "JEWS OF EASTERN EUROPE" EVENT | | JTS alum Saul Noam Zaritt will be a featured speaker at a book talk exploring "The Jews of Eastern Europe," sponsored by Columbia University's Insititute for Israel and Jewish Studies. Zaritt, who earned his doctorate at JTS's Kekst Graduate School, is author of Jewish American Writing and World Literature: Maybe to Millions, Maybe to Nobody. | | Read more → | |
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| Torah: Revealing the Concealed | | | Parashat Nitzavim asks how many of us are willing to search out the kind of implicit prejudices that are living within us, writes Rabbi Gordon Tucker. | |
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