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| | MAKING MIDRASH |  JTS | THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 7:00–9:30 P.M. | | Get a taste of JTS learning in a creative and collaborative program with faculty, students, and artists. Study midrashim and create artwork inspired by these texts. | | Learn more and register → | |
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| Repentance and the Mystical “Rope”: The Divine-Human Relationship in Jewish Thought | HIGH HOLIDAY WEBINAR SERIES KICKOFF
 ONLINE | MONDAYS, SEPTEMBER 16, 23, AND 30, 1:00–2:00 P.M. ET | | One of the most striking images of the divine-human relationship in Jewish thought is the kabbalistic image of a rope that extends from God in the heavens into the soul of the human being. Dr. Shira Billet explores this metaphor in the first of three sessions in this series. | |
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| | BETWEEN THE LINES: TORAH AND TECHNOLOGY | | ONLINE | TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 1:00–2:30 P.M. ET | | How can ancient religious norms address the radically transformed reality of a technocentric society? Join Rabbi Daniel Nevins for a discussion of his book, drawing on 3,000 years of biblical and rabbinic texts. | | Learn more and register → | |
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| JTS Faculty Member Releases Studio Recording of Two-Act Opera | | | Composer Hazzan Gerald Cohen, assistant professor at the H. L. Miller Cantorial School, and librettist Deborah Brevoort recently released a studio recording of Steal a Pencil for Me, an opera in two acts. One of the opera's first workshop performances was performed at JTS in 2013. | |
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| Torah: Mitzvot as Protest | | | What if the hunger we experience while fasting on Yom Kippur is not that of an ascetic practice, but that of a hunger strike? | |
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