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JTS Receives Grant from National Endowment for the Humanities

JTS Receives Grant from National Endowment for the Humanities

May 19, 2025

JTS is proud to have received a prestigious grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities for a project called, “Cataloging, Preserving and Digitizing At-Risk Broadsides, Ephemera and Prints: Depicting Three Centuries of the Jewish Experience from Persecution and Migration to Settlement in the United States.” 

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JTS Co-Hosts Screening of New Documentary About Untold Civil Rights Story at Riverside Church

JTS Co-Hosts Screening of New Documentary About Untold Civil Rights Story at Riverside Church

May 14, 2025

JTS recently co-hosted, together with several local faith-based institutions, a screening of a remarkable film by Ilana Trachtman, Ain’t No Back to a Merry-Go-Round.

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Public Keynote Lecture and Academic Conference on Forgiveness at JTS

Public Keynote Lecture and Academic Conference on Forgiveness at JTS

Professor George Yaakov Kohler of Bar-Ilan University recently delivered a public evening lecture at JTS on “Leo Baeck on Repentance and Forgiveness Before and After the Holocaust” in front of a diverse audience of community members, students, JTS faculty, colleagues from Bar-Ilan University, and scholars from other academic institutions.

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Israel Programming This Spring

Israel Programming This Spring

May 13, 2025

Over the spring, JTS organized and participated in numerous events highlighting our love of Israel and the Jewish state.

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Upcoming Events

May 19

Meeting the Moment: Urgent Questions for Israel and American Jews 

Online | Israel at a Crossroads—Expanding the Conversation

Join Professor Arnold M. Eisen, Rabbi Gordon Tucker, and Rabbi Ayelet Cohen for a discussion on the most urgent issues facing the Jewish state today.

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May 22

2025 Commencement Exercises and Ordination

JTS| Online | Livestream

Join us for our 131st Commencement Exercises and Tekes Hasmahah (Ordination).

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May 29

Fundamentals of Biblical Hebrew: Reading and Pronunciation

Online | Biblical Hebrew

In eight live online sessions, learn to read Biblical Hebrew consonants and vowels with confidence.

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Jun 9

Biblical Hebrew I: Jumpstart Your Biblical Hebrew

Online | Biblical Hebrew

In ten live online sessions, we will cover the “big ideas” in Biblical Hebrew to help you get started and dive into the fundamentals of grammar.

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Jun 9

Between the Lines: Embracing Exile: The Case for Jewish Diaspora

Online | Book Talks

Join Dr. David Kraemer for a discussion of his new book Embracing Exile: The Case for Jewish Diaspora.

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