Live Online Classes
JTS offers multiple opportunities for adult learners across the globe to study online with our renowned faculty. Join an online class on your own or, if you’re an organizational leader, work with us to create a customized learning program for your community.
Join an Online Class
JTS offers online classes that create live, interactive opportunities for study with top-caliber scholars. Encounter compelling Jewish scholarship that brings the texts and wisdom of our tradition to bear on contemporary dilemmas. Courses delve deeply into specific areas of Jewish text, history, philosophy, religion, arts, and literature.
Who It’s For
Adult learners across the globe are invited to participate in our live online classes. All levels and types of Jewish learning background are welcome for most courses. Select courses are offered at an advanced level.
JTS also offers online learning programs designed specifically for Jewish clergy.
Contact Us
To learn more about live online classes for individuals or customized learning programs for communities, please contact us at communitylearning@jtsa.edu.
Events
Censoring the Holocaust: How Books Shape Our View of a Painful Past
Online | Dangerous Ideas: Censorship Through a Jewish Lens | Public Lectures & Events
In this discussion, Dr. Edna Friedberg, JTS fellow and historian at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum looks back at Holocaust literature and how its popularity shifts depending on time and place. Part of our fall learning series Dangerous Ideas: Censorship Through a Jewish Lens.
Read MoreBetween the Lines: The Object of Jewish Literature
Online | Book Talks | Library Events | Online Learning
Author Barbara E. Mann discusses her latest book, The Object of Jewish Literature, a history of modern Jewish literature that explores our enduring attachment to the book as an object.
Read MoreThe Hollywood Blacklist and the Whitewashing of American Culture
Online | Dangerous Ideas: Censorship Through a Jewish Lens | Public Lectures & Events
Ellie Gettinger, JTS director of Digital Learning and curator of the museum exhibit, “Blacklist: The Hollywood Red Scare,” will explore the political climate that led to the blacklist and how it fundamentally changed the film industry. Part of our fall learning series Dangerous Ideas: Censorship Through a Jewish Lens
Read MoreBetween the Lines: The Stories They Tell
Online | Book Talks | Online Learning
Join Dr. Judith Hauptman as she discusses her latest book, “The Stories They Tell,” in which she upends the long-held theory of the immutability of halakhah, Jewish law.
Read MoreWhere Do We Draw the Line?
Online | Dangerous Ideas: Censorship Through a Jewish Lens | Public Lectures & Events
Dr. Meredith Katz takes a look at censorship in Jewish days schools, examining successes and challenges. Part of our fall learning series Dangerous Ideas: Censorship Through a Jewish Lens.
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