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News

Scholars in Bible and in Gender and Women's Studies Join JTS Faculty

The Library Names Conservation Fellow

JTS Expands Program in Midrash

New JTS Program Provides Support to Underserved Congregations

Day School Leadership Training Institute Graduates Fifteen

Prozdor Principal Named VP of North American Organization

Holiday Images Available for the Media

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Events

November 6, 2008:

Three Movements-One Future: Challenges Facing American Jews

November 20, 2008:

Library Book Talk to Feature Dr. Neil Gillman

New Year Gifts Available at The Library

JTS Students Available to Assist Your Community

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Focus on Faculty


Dr. Jonathan Milgram, assistant professor of Talmud and Rabbinics, will discuss “Memory, Manuscripts and Modernization: From Mishnah to Microsoft” as guest faculty at the Hereld Institute of Learning in Jacksonville, Florida on November 16.

Focus on Faculty


The official launch of Yiddishlands the newest book by Dr. David Roskies, Sol and Evelyn Henkind Professor of Yiddish Literature, will take place on October 26 at the Jewish Public Library in Montreal. On November 5 he will discuss the book at Michigan State University in East Lansing.

Focus on Faculty


Dr. Richard Kalmin, Theodore R. Racoosin Chair of Rabbinic Literature, recently published two papers: “Idolatry in Late Antique Babylonia: The Evidence of the Babylonian Talmud” in the Sculptural Environment of the Roman Near East: Reflections on Culture, Ideology, and Power and “Persian Persecutions of the Jews” in Irano: Judaica, Vol. VI, Studies Relating to Jewish Contacts with Persian Culture Throughout the Ages.

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Dr. Mayer Rabinowitz, associate professor of Talmud, will teach a four-session course on Judaism and the Arts in Rabbinic Texts at Oheb Shalom Congregation in South Orange, New Jersey, beginning October 29. He also teaches a weekly Talmud class at B’nai Shalom in West Orange, New Jersey, on Thursday evenings.

Focus on Faculty


Dr. Carol Ingall, Dr. Bernard Heller Professor of Jewish Education; Dr. David Kraemer, Joseph J. and Dora Abbell Librarian and professor of Talmud and Rabbinics; and Dr. Michelle Lynn-Sachs, assistant professor of Jewish Education, will serve as guest faculty at a JTS Day of Study on December 7 at Beth Tzedec Congregation in Toronto.

Focus on Faculty


Rabbi Joel Roth, Louis Finkelstein Professor of Talmud and Jewish Law, is leading a series of eight sessions at Temple Israel in Sharon, Massachusetts, on the “Halakhic Process and What Its Impact Is on Conservative Jews.”

Focus on Faculty


Rabbi Leonard Sharzer, a physician and senior fellow in Bioethics of the Louis Finkelstein Institute, is coordinating a reunion of the Brit Kodesh program of the Rabbinical Assembly the weekend of November 13-16.

Focus on Faculty


Both Rabbi Joel Roth, Louis Finkelstein Professor of Talmud and Jewish Law, and Dr. Burton Visotzky, Nathan and Janet Appleman Professor of Midrash and Interreligious Studies, will teach at the reunion.

Focus on Faculty


Yaron Frid reviews Jews and Shoes (Berg, 2008), a new book conceived and edited by Dr. Edna Nahshon, associate professor of Hebrew, in the August 22 edition of Haaretz. The book, which will be available in the U.S. in October, can be preordered from Amazon and Barnes & Noble. Dr. Nahshon will speak about Jews and Shoes at the Library of Congress on December 11.

Focus on Faculty


Dr. Raymond Scheindlin, professor of Medieval Hebrew Literature and director of the Shalom Spiegel Institute of Medieval Hebrew Poetry, was recently elected vice president of the American Academy for Jewish Research.

Focus on Faculty


Dr. Ismar Schorsch, chancellor emeritus and Rabbi Herman Abramovitz Professor of Jewish History, has been elected president of the Memorial Foundation for Jewish Culture, the only international body dedicated solely to advancing Jewish cultural activities. The foundation was established by Dr. Nahum Goldmann in 1965 with reparation funds from the Government of West Germany.

Focus on Faculty


Dr. Leonard Levin, assistant professor of Jewish Philosophy, recently translated The Classic Jewish Philosophers from Saadia to the Renaissance and Philosophy of the Bible as Foundation for Jewish Culture, both by Eiezer Schweid. He also translated the forthcoming The Reasons for the Commandments in Jewish Though From the Bible to the Renaissance by Isaac Henemann (Academic Studies Press, 2008).

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Dr. Levin's newest book is Seeing With Both Eyes: Ephraim Luntshitz and the Polish Jewish Renaissance (Brill, Summer, 2008). In addition, he is editor of the English translation of The Idea of Modern Jewish Culture (Academic Studies Press, 2008).

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