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This Week: A New Season of Learning With JTS |
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It's a new year, and JTS is offering a new season of community learning. Sign up for courses, book talks, and our next series of weekly lectures.
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| | CONVERSION TO AND FROM JUDAISM |  ONLINE | EIGHT MONDAYS STARTING OCTOBER 24, 7:00 P.M. ET | | Join Dr. Benjamin Gampel to explore the sometimes surprising history of conversion into and out of Judaism, including the conversion of some Jews who were dissatisfied with their community's power structure. Readings will include Jewish, Christian, and Muslim first-person accounts, chronicles, letters, legal sources and polemics 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. | | Register now → | |
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| Save the Date: Carol Gilligan in Conversation |  AT JTS AND ONLINE | THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 7:30 P.M. ET | | Gilligan, a psychologist who revolutionized her field’s understanding of gender with the 1982 book, In A Different Voice, will join us to discuss the influence of her Jewish upbringing and Jewish thought on her goundbreaking work. | |
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Between the Lines: Author Conversations from the JTS Library |
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| | INSIDE JEWISH DAY SCHOOLS | | ONLINE | THURSDAY, OCTOBER 27, 7:30 P.M. ET | | The JTS Library presents Dr. Jack Wertheimer discussing 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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| | CHOOSING HOPE | | ONLINE | MONDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 7:30–8:30 P.M. ET | | In Choosing Hope: The Heritage of Judaism, psychologist David Arnow explores the many sources of hope in Judaism, which have fortified Jews in responding to our past trials and which have tremendous relevance today. | | Register now → | |
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| Graduate Studies: Virtual Open House | | ONLINE | TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 7:00 P.M. ET | | An evening of information and conversation on the meaningful paths that JTS offers in religious, academic, and professional Jewish studies. | |
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New Weekly Lecture Series:
"Dangerous Ideas: Censorship Through a Jewish Lens" |
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| | WRITTEN IN STONE? WRITING AND REWRITING THE BIBLE | | ONLINE | MONDAY, OCTOBER 24, 1 P.M. ET | | Dr. Benjamin Sommer examines the way biblical scribes updated texts, sometimes replacing the older text, but sometimes keeping the older text intact even as they added to it. It turns out that in the biblical period, what was written in stone had some degree of flexibility. | | Register now → | |
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| | SUPPRESSED TALMUDIC AND MEDIEVAL POLEMICS AGAINST JESUS | | ONLINE | MONDAY, OCTOBER 31, 1:00 P.M. ET | | Rabbi Eliezer Diamond will discuss passages in the Talmud concerning Jesus and the apostles which caused trouble for Jews, particularly in their (compelled) disputations with Christians. These passages were eventually removed from most manuscripts and printed editions of the Talmud. | | Register now → | |
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| New! Online Learning for Teens | | ONLINE | FIRST COURSE BEGINS NOVEMBER 2, 7:30 P.M. ET | | Guided by expert faculty, our online courses will invite students to access Jewish texts and explore questions that matter to them to them as young Jews in the 21st century. | |
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| | YIDDISH ACADEMIA AND ACTIVISM IN POST-WAR NEW YORK | | AT JTS AND COLUMBIA | SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 20: 1:30 P.M. ET; MONDAY, NOVEMBER 21: 8:30 P.M. ET | | Join us to explore the rise of Yiddish studies in academia and a wave of Yiddish activism after World War II. A unique, bilingual gathering, "Yiddish in the Heights" will include speakers and panels over two days at JTS and Columbia, with keynotes by Dr. David H. Roskies, professor emeritus at JTS, and Dr. Anita Norich, professor emerita at the University of Michigan. | | Register now → | |
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| | WHY STUDY TALMUD? | | ONLINE | WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 26, 8:00–9:00 P.M. ET | | Rabbi Eliezer Diamond explores what a centuries-old compendium of Jewish laws and stories can teach us today. | | Register now → | |
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| | WATCH: CHRISTIANS AND JEWS RETHINK THE PHARISEES | | | For centuries, Christian writing and homilies have called the Pharisees legalistic, money-loving, self-righteous hypocrites. That definition became a label applied to Jews in general as well as any persons or groups the speaker or writer despised. A panel of esteemed scholars, including Amy-Jill Levine and Shaye J.D. Cohen, came to JTS to ask: Who were the Pharisees, really? And why does this question matter today? | | Watch now → | |
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| | EDUCATION: HOW DO DAY SCHOOL KIDS THINK ABOUT THE HOLOCAUST? | | ONLINE | THURSDAY, OCTOBER 27, 2:00 P.M. ET | | The Mandel Center for Studies in Jewish Education hosts JTS Professor Meredith Katz for a conversation on the messages day school students take from Holocaust education. Professor Katz discusses her recently published study exploring how a group of day school kids navigated questions of particularism and universalism, and how Holocaust education helped them to see themselves as civic actors in the broader community. | | Register now → | |
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| Torah: Be Fruitful and Multiply? | | | Writing on Parashat Bereishit, cantor and current rabbinical student Israel Gordon asks how we can reconcile the commandment to reproduce with the fact that having a child may be one of the worst things we can do for the environment. | |
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