News

Chancellor Schwartz: Engaged Globally and Honored Locally

May 20, 2025

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

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.”

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.

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.

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.

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.

JTS Appoints Inaugural Rifkind Chair in Jewish History 

May 1, 2025

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

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.

Benjamin D. Sommer Selected for Prestigious National Humanities Center Fellowship

Professor Benjamin D. Sommer, one of 32 fellows selected, will spend the 2025–26 academic year working at the Center on his research project.

The Jewish Archival Survey in Ukraine Receives Additional Funding

Apr 28, 2025

Led by JTS Professor, Dr. David Fishman and Senior Editor Alexander Ivanov, the Jewish Archival Survey (JAS) is dedicated to locating, preserving, describing, and making accessible thousands of archival collections in Ukraine that contain valuable materials on Jewish history and culture.