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Back to JTS Torah Online's Main pageLeadership in the Bible: A Practical Guide for Today
Feb 19, 2015 By Library of the Jewish Theological Seminary | Public Event audio
How would Abraham, Joseph, and Moses respond to the 40 most difficult situations you encounter in daily life?
Read MoreThe Bus on Jaffa Road: The Story of Middle East Terrorism and the Search for Justice
Nov 19, 2014 By Library of the Jewish Theological Seminary | Public Event audio
The Bus on Jaffa Road explores the 1996 incident that took the lives of JTS student Matthew Eisenfeld (z”l) and his fiancée, Sara Duker (z”l), and the couple’s legacy.
Read MoreCatalog of Judeo-Persian Manuscripts in the Library of the Jewish Theological Seminary
Oct 23, 2014 By Library of the Jewish Theological Seminary | Public Event audio
The JTS Library holds the largest Judeo-Persian manuscript collection in the West, and the third largest in the world. This repository is crucial in understanding the intellectual legacy of the ancient Iranian Jewish community, whose extant works rest in only a few large but neglected collections.
Read MoreDreamland of Humanists: Warburg, Cassirer, Panofsky, and the Hamburg School
Feb 10, 2014 By Library of the Jewish Theological Seminary | Public Event audio
The recent discovery of a new trove of Nazi-looted art in Germany has awakened us to the world of culture and ideas that was lost when Hitler came to power. Dreamland of Humanists: Warburg, Cassirer, Panofsky, and the Hamburg School tells the forgotten story of Hamburg’s emergence as a center of that early 20th-century intellectual world.
Read MoreMemory and Covenant
Feb 3, 2014 By Library of the Jewish Theological Seminary | Public Event audio
Memory and Covenant: The Role of Israel’s and God’s Memory in Sustaining the Deuteronomic and Priestly Covenants combines a close reading of texts in the Deuteronomic, Priestly, and Holiness traditions with analysis of ritual and scrutiny of the different terminology regarding memory that is used in each tradition.
Read MoreGospel of Freedom
Jan 29, 2014 By Library of the Jewish Theological Seminary | Public Event audio
Dr. Jonathan Rieder delves deeper than anyone before into Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s “Letter from Birmingham Jail,” illuminating both its timeless message and crucial position in the history of civil rights.
Read MoreA Guide for the Perplexed: A Novel
Nov 11, 2013 By Library of the Jewish Theological Seminary | Public Event audio
Novelist Dara Horn, the winner of two National Jewish Book Awards, on her new book, A Guide For The Perplexed: A Novel.
Read MoreHatemail: Anti-Semitism on Picture Postcards A Discussion with Author Salo Aizenberg
Nov 7, 2013 By Library of the Jewish Theological Seminary | Public Event audio
Salo Aizenberg, one of the leading collectors of Judaic picture postcards, is also the author of Postcards from the Holy Land: A Pictorial History of the Ottoman Era, 1880-1918. He is a managing director of the RLJ Credit Opportunity Fund, and coordinates its business development activities. He earned his BS in Management Information Systems at the State University of New York at Binghamton and his MBA at Columbia Business School.
Read MoreA Jew’s Best Friend? The Image of the Dog Throughout Jewish History
Oct 7, 2013 By Library of the Jewish Theological Seminary | Public Event audio
Philip I. Ackerman-Liebrman, assistant professor of Jewish Studies and Law, as well as affiliated assistant professor of Islamic Studies and History, at Vanderbilt University, delivered a JTS Library Book talk on October 7th, on his new book, A Jew’s Best Friend? The Image of the Dog throughout Jewish History.
Read MoreRav Hisda’s Daughter
May 14, 2013 By Library of the Jewish Theological Seminary | Public Event audio
Maggie Anton, the award-winning author of the historical fiction series Rashi’s Daughters and Rav Hisda’s Daughter, a Talmud scholar with expertise in Jewish women’s history, and an esteemed lecturer, gave this Library Book Talk at JTS on Monday, April 29, 2013.
Read MoreThe Radical American Judaism of Mordecai M. Kaplan
Apr 10, 2013 By Library of the Jewish Theological Seminary | Public Event audio
The philosophy of Mordecai M. Kaplan, longtime professor at JTS (1910 – 1963), dean of its Teachers Institute (1909 – 1946), and founder of the Reconstructionist Movement, is presented in its entirety for the first time in The Radical American Judaism of Mordecai M. Kaplan.
Read MoreJosephus and the Theologies of Ancient Judaism
Mar 25, 2013 By Library of the Jewish Theological Seminary | Public Event audio
A Discussion with Dr. Jonathan Klawans, Author, JTS, March 19, 2013, 7:30 PM
Read MoreThrough the Door of Life: A Jewish Journey Between Genders
Mar 5, 2013 By Joy Ladin | Public Event audio
Dr. Joy Ladin, David and Ruth Gottesman Professor of English, Stern College for Women – Yeshiva University, discusses her work Through the Door of Life: A Jewish Journey Between Genders.
Read MoreDevelopment, Learning, and Community
Dec 4, 2012 By Jeffrey Kress | Public Event audio
Dr. Jeffrey S. Kress, associate professor and chair of Jewish Education and academic director of the Experiential Learning Initiative at JTS, talks about Development, Learning, and Community: Educating for Identity in Pluralistic Jewish High Schools. Dr. Kress’s recent book uses data drawn from a study of pluralistic Jewish high schools to illustrate the complex and often challenging interplay between the cognitive and social elements of education.
Read MoreA Short History of Jewish Ethics
Nov 7, 2012 By Alan Mittleman | Public Event audio
In this Library Book Talk Professor Alan L. Mittleman discusses his book, A Short History of Jewish Ethics: Conduct and Character in the Context of Covenant.
Read MoreA Jewish Feminine Mystique? Jewish Women in Postwar America
Oct 5, 2012
“A Jewish Feminine Mystique? Jewish Women in Postwar America” is a discussion between editors Shira Kohn, assistant dean of The Graduate School of JTS, and Rachel Kranson, a postdoctoral research fellow in Yiddish Studies at the libraries of New York University.
Read MoreAs Light Before Dawn: The Inner World of a Medieval Kabbalist
Oct 5, 2012 By Eitan Fishbane | Public Event video
Dr. Eitan Fishbane, assistant professor in the Department of Jewish Though, discusses his new book “As Light Before Dawn- The Inner World of a Medieval Kabbalist” in this book talk held through The Library of JTS.
Read MoreHope Will Find You: My Search for the Wisdom to Stop Waiting and Start Living
Oct 5, 2012
Rabbi Naomi Levy delivers a talk on her new book Hope Will Find You: My Search for the Wisdom to Stop Waiting and Start Living.
Read MoreThe Sabbath with Judith Shulevitz
Oct 5, 2012
Author Judith Shulevitz participates in the Henry N. Rapaport Memorial Lecture at The Jewish Theological Seminary, discussing her recent book, The Sabbath World: Glimpses of a Different Order of Time. She is joined in dialogue by Rabbi Shai Held, cofounder of Mechon Hadar.
Read MoreTranslating Psalms
Oct 5, 2012 By Stephen A. Geller | Public Event video
Translating Psalms: A Reading and Reflection. A discussion with translator Pamela Greenberg
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