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The Space In Between: Thresholds and Borders in Jewish Life and Thought |
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Join JTS scholars for a weekly learning series delving into the idea of liminality—the time or space in between. |
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| | BETWEEN LAW AND NARRATIVE IN THE TALMUD |  ONLINE | MONDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 1:00 P.M. ET | | A distinction is classically made between two genres of Talmudic text: halakhah, or law, and aggadah, narrative. Join Dr. Sarah Wolf to examine the history of the law vs. narrative distinction and how this categorization became central to how Jews think about Jewish texts and Jewish learning. She will also discuss the limits of this binary and explore the possibilities created when we transcend it. | | Register now → | |
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| | JEWISH LAW VS. FREE CHOICE? | | ONLINE | MONDAY, MARCH 6, 1:00 P.M. ET | | How do we find a comfortable space between the traditional Jewish value placed on hiyyuv, the obligation to follow Jewish law, and modern society's emphasis on commitments that are voluntarily chosen. With Rabbi Gordon Tucker. | | Register now → | |
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| Purim: What's Behind the Silliness? | | | Explore the serious meaning behind Judaism's silliest holiday with ideas from JTS scholars and students. Also, check out some of our favorite Purim song parodies. | |
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Deepen your understanding of Jewish texts, history, and thought in courses with our outstanding scholars. |
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| | ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPTS AND FISTFIGHTS IN SYNAGOGUE: THE JEWS OF RENAISSANCE ITALY | | ONLINE | FOUR THURSDAYS: MARCH 9, 16, 23, 30; 7:30 P.M. ET | | Join Dr. Stefanie Siegmund to explore what life was like for Jews in the Italian states from 1300–1600. Subjects include the culture of Jewish bankers as represented in their illuminated manuscripts; daily life for typical Jewish men and women, from goose-meat sausage to fist fights in synagogue; the religious and political factors that led to the imposition of Jewish ghettos in Venice, Rome, and Florence; and more. | | Register now → | |
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| | MITZVOT: OBLIGATION IN JEWISH THOUGHT | | ONLINE | FOUR MONDAYS: MARCH 13, 20, 27; APRIL 3; 7:00 P.M. ET | | What does it look like to value religious obligation in a world that privileges free choice and the rights of the individual? Join Dr. Sarah Wolf to explore classical and contemporary Jewish sources about commandedness and to consider the tensions between obligation and choice. | | Register now → | |
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| | PASSOVER LEARNING: WHAT WAS THE BIBLICAL EXODUS? | | ONLINE | THREE TUESDAYS: MARCH 14, 21, 28, 7:30 P.M. ET | | We're expected to tell the story of the Exodus on Passover, yet the Haggadah actually says little about what happened or how. In Dr. Robert Harris's course "Retelling the Story: What Was the Biblical Exodus?" you'll examine why the Rabbis chose to tell the story this way in the Haggadah, and do a close and deep reading of the Torah’s account of the Exodus. | | Register now → | |
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| Living Our Values: Social Justice and Social Action |  ONLINE | FOUR WEDNESDAYS AT 8:00 P.M. ET, STARTING MARCH 8 | | JTS's Dr. Yael Landman is one of the teachers in the upcoming ScholarStream series, a partnership of JTS and other Conservative Movement organizations. | |
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| | "SHANDA": A MEMOIR BY LETTY COTTIN POGREBIN | | ONLINE | TUESDAY, MARCH 14, 1:00 P.M. ET | | In Shanda: A Memoir of Shame and Secrecy, acclaimed activist and writer Letty Cottin Pogrebin tells the story of three generations of complicated, intense 20th-century Jews for whom the desire to fit in and the fear of public humiliation either drove their aspirations or crushed their spirit. | | Register now → | |
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| Torah: From Chaos to Order | | | What can we learn from the contrasting narratives of the building of the Tabernacle and the construction of the Golden Calf? Dr. Stephen A. Geller on Parashat Terumah. | |
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