No Shade for Jonah: Engaging the Other in Challenging Times

Shuly Rubin Schwartz, Chancellor and Irving Lehrman Research Professor of American Jewish History, JTS

Prayer Is Hard—And That’s the Point

Jan Uhrbach, Director of the Block / Kolker Center for Spiritual Arts

A Single Band:The Universal Call of the High Holidays

David C. Kraemer, Joseph J. and Dora Abbell Librarian and Professor of Talmud and Rabbinics, JTS

A Knife Raised, a Page Left Blank

Marcus Mordecai Schwartz, Ripps Schnitzer Librarian for Special Collections; Assistant Professor, Talmud and Rabbinics

A Hineni from a Fractured Heart

Harold Nathan Aaronson, Rabbinical School 2029

From Listening to Leading: Four Pathways into Prayer

Shoshi Levin Goldberg, Director, H.L. Miller Cantorial School

Guiding Our Broken Hearts into the New Year

Ayelet Cohen, Pearl Resnick Dean of The Rabbinical School and Dean of the Division of Religious Leadership

When Teshuvah Feels Impossible

Noam Blauer, Rabbinical School 2026