Learn with JTS at the JCC Manhattan’s 2024 Tikkun Leil Shavuot
Date: Jun 11, 2024
Time: 9:00 pm - 5:00 am
Sponsor: Public Lectures and Events
Location: New York City
Category: Public Lectures & Events
Learn with JTS at the JCC Manhattan’s 2024 Tikkun Leil Shavuot
Tuesday, June 11
9:00 p.m.–5:00 a.m.
334 Amsterdam Ave at 76 St.
New York, NY
The JCC’s Tikkun Leil Shavuot brings together people from across the spectrum of Jewish life for a free, revelatory night of study, film, music, dance, conversation, and more in celebration of Shavuot.
This year at 10:00 p.m., two JTS faculty will be offering sessions. Dr. David Kraemer, Joseph J. and Dora Abbell Librarian and Professor of Talmud and Rabbinics at JTS, will be speaking on “Meeting God in ‘Exile,'” and Rabbi Ayelet Cohen, Pearl Resnick Dean of The Rabbinical School and Dean of the Division of Religious Leadership, will be discussing “32 Ways of the Heart” in conversation with Rabbi Sharon Kleinbaum. Other program highlights include Tony-nominated actor Steven Skybell; best-selling author Dan Senor; an all-night track with World Zionist Organization on “Jewish Peoplehood in Times of Crisis”; Public Safety and Antisemitism Town Hall with Upper West Side city council member Gale Brewer; and “Report from the Field: Jewish Life on Campus from Hillel Rabbis,” moderated by Abigail Pogrebin.
No registration necessary.
Meeting God in “Exile”
Dr. David Kraemer, Joseph J. and Dora Abbell Librarian and Professor of Talmud and Rabbinics at JTS
10:00 p.m.
According to the Torah, Israel’s meeting with God to receive the words of the covenant took place at Mt. Sinai, which is outside the Land of Israel. In this detail, the Torah communicates that the divine can be encountered anywhere. In fact, throughout our history, Jews have claimed that divine encounters are independent of territory. In this session, we will review such teachings and consider what they mean for us—Jews who are at home in “exile.”
32 Ways of the Heart
Rabbi Sharon Kleinbaum in conversation with Rabbi Ayelet Cohen, Pearl Resnick Dean of The Rabbinical School and Dean of the Division of Religious Leadership
10:00 p.m.
Reflecting on her 32 years as the leader and senior rabbi of Congregation Beit Simchat Torah, New York City’s LGBTQ+ synagogue, Rabbi Kleinbaum will explore the “heart/Lev” of her rabbinate through psalms, liturgy, and her more than 32 years of experience (Lev is also the gematria of the number 32) through conversation with Rabbi Ayelet Cohen. This session will be amplified.
