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A Pilgrimage to Andalusia Sponsored by the Milstein Center for Interreligious Dialogue

A Pilgrimage to Andalusia Sponsored by the Milstein Center for Interreligious Dialogue

May 28, 2025

Generously sponsored by the Milstein Center for Interreligious Dialogue at JTS, a group of 27 Muslims, Jews, and Christians toured Andalusian Spain together.

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2025 Commencement Exercises and Ordination

2025 Commencement Exercises and Ordination

JTS celebrated its 131st Commencement ceremony in its atrium on Thursday, May 22. Recordings are now available.

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Chancellor Schwartz: Engaged Globally and Honored Locally

Chancellor Schwartz: Engaged Globally and Honored Locally

May 20, 2025

Chancellor Schwartz has had a busy month bridging partnerships and engaging with the community.

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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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Student Look Book 2025

Student Look Book 2025

May 7, 2025

Get to know some of our JTS students and the impactful work they are already doing both inside and outside the walls of JTS.

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JTS Appoints Inaugural Rifkind Chair in Jewish History 

JTS Appoints Inaugural Rifkind Chair in Jewish History 

May 1, 2025

Dr. Sandra Fox will be the new Rifkind Chair in Jewish History.  

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Dedication of the Cantor Nancy Abramson Green Room

Dedication of the Cantor Nancy Abramson Green Room

Apr 29, 2025

In recognition of Cantor Abramson’s years of dedicated leadership, the JTS Green Room was named in her honor.

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