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JTS - EVENTS AND LEARNING

June 9, 2023

New Summer Learning Series

In our new weekly series, "The Dynamics of Change," JTS scholars will examine the causes and effects of significant changes—religious, political, and personal—throughout Jewish history and life. See more about the next session below.

GOD: UNCHANGING
location   ONLINE  |  MONDAY, JUNE 12, 1:00 P.M. ET
The idea that God is ineffable and unchanging is embedded in Jewish thought; but the ways people have connected to and perceived God have changed significantly over time. Join Dr. Alan Cooper to explore this evolution.
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"The Evolution of Torah" Podcast, Season 2
Rabbi Mordecai Schwartz introduces key rabbis of the Middle Ages and delves into the diverse intellectual cultures they helped develop across the globe.
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Between the Lines: Author Conversations from The Library of JTS

"THE CONFIDANTE"
location   ONLINE  |  TUESDAY, JUNE 13, 1:00 P.M. ET
Christopher C. Gorham will discuss The Confidante, the first biography of Anna Marie Rosenberg, a Hungarian Jewish immigrant whose influence on 20th-century America, from the New Deal to the Cold War and beyond, has never before been told.
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"WHERE I AM"
location   ONLINE  |  MONDAY, JUNE 20, 1:00 P.M. ET
Join us for a conversation with Israeli writer Dana Shem-Ur, who will discuss her piercing novel about life abroad in a cultural setting not one’s own.
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JTS in the Berkshires Summer 2023
location   LENOX, MA | FRIDAYS, JULY 7, JULY 21, AUGUST 4, 11:00 A.M. ET
Join JTS scholars in Lenox, Massachusetts, for inspiring learning that illuminates the Jewish past and shapes the Jewish future. With Dr. Arnold M. Eisen, Rabbi Gordon Tucker, and Dr. Shira Billet.
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News

WHITHER THE REBBETZIN?
On the Jewish Women's Archive podcast, Chancellor Shuly Rubin Schwartz joins three rabbis' spouses to discuss the changing role of the rebbetzin in America. Chancellor Schwartz is the author of The Rabbi's Wife: The Rebbetzin in American Jewish Life.
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SCHOLARS VISIT JTS LIBRARY TO DECIPHER HANDWRITTEN NOTES IN BOOKS
Part of a project co-directed by JTS's Professor Marjorie Lehman, the scholars are studying handwritten book inscriptions to gain greater insight into the history of Jewish life and culture.
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ALUM'S NEW BOOK: "SOLOVEITCHIK'S CHILDREN"
Kekst Graduate School alum Dr. Daniel Ross Goodman has published a new book exploring how the modern Jewish thinkers Irving Greenberg, David Hartman, and Jonathan Sacks learned from and adapted the philosophy and thought of the legendary Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik.
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NEW RECORDING FROM RABBI DEBORAH SACKS MINTZ
Rabbinical School alum Rabbi Deborah Sacks Mintz has released a new album called Yetzira. She is director of Tefillah and Music at Hadar Institute.
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Torah: So Close Yet So Far
Writing on Parashat Beha'alotekha, Rabbi Gordon Tucker says that Pesah Sheni reminds us that we must never give up on those at the threshold of our Jewish communities.
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