Spring 2024 Learning Series: Timely Insights, Timeless Wisdom
SPRING 2024 LEARNING SERIES: Timely Insights, Timeless Wisdom
Mondays, January 22 – June 3, 2024
1:00–2:30 p.m. ET
Please note there will be no sessions on February 19, April 22-29, or May 27.
Join JTS’s renowned faculty to learn about their current work and greatest passions. Drawing on their expertise, scholars will offer inspiring learning and expose us to new ideas and insights that help us connect the Jewish past with the Jewish future. Topics will include:
SESSION TOPICS AND FACULTY
JANUARY 22
ZION IN THE DIASPORA: HOW JEWS IMAGINED THEY LIVED IN ZION WHEREVER THEY ACTUALLY LIVED
With Dr. David Kraemer, Joseph J. and Dora Abbell Librarian and Professor of Talmud and Rabbinics, JTS
JANUARY 29
WHERE ARE WE NOW? RETHINKING EXILE, DIASPORA AND HOME IN ISRAEL AND AMERICA
With Dr. Arnold Eisen, Chancellor Emeritus and Professor of Jewish Thought, JTS
FEBRUARY 5
TEACHING THE ISRAELI-PALESTINIAN CONFLICT ON CAMPUS: ONE PROFESSOR’S REFLECTIONS
With Dr. Michal Raucher, JTS Fellow and Associate Professor of Jewish Studies at Rutgers University.
This session is officially off the record and a recording will not be posted publicly. We hope you will be able to join us live.
FEBRUARY 12
BETWEEN MOSCOW, KYIV, AND JERUSALEM: HOW THE WARS IN UKRAINE AND GAZA HAVE CHANGED RUSSIAN AND UKRAINIAN ATTITUDES TOWARD ISRAEL AND JEWS
With Dr. David Fishman, Professor of Jewish History, JTS
FEBRUARY 26
JEWISH HISTORY AND EDUCATION THROUGH THE LENS OF JTS’S RARE MANUSCRIPTS
With Dr. Yitz Landes, Assistant Professor of Rabbinic Literatures and Cultures, JTS
MARCH 4
A QUEEN IN THE TOMB OF THE KINGS: AN ANCIENT MONUMENT AND ITS MODERN LEGACY
With Dr. Sarit Kattan Gribetz, JTS Fellow and Associate Professor of Classical Judaism, Fordham University
MARCH 11
MORDECAI THE JEW AND ESTHER THE GREEK: THE CHANGING POLITICS OF THE BOOK OF ESTHER IN ANTIQUITY AND OUR TIMES
With Dr. Aaron Koller, Adjunct Professor, JTS, and Professor of Near East Studies, Yeshiva University
MARCH 18
LAW AS A MORAL FORCE: WHEN PRESIDENT TRUMAN AND CHIEF JUSTICE WARREN STUDIED TALMUD AT JTS
With Dr. Shira Billet, Assistant Professor of Jewish Thought and Ethics, JTS
MARCH 25
SEEING THE UNSEEABLE: IMAGES OF THE DIVINE IN KABBALISTIC TEXTS
With Dr. Eitan Fishbane, Professor of Jewish Thought, JTS, and Dr. Marcus Mordecai Schwartz, Ripps Schnitzer Librarian for Special Collections; Assistant Professor, Talmud and Rabbinics, JTS
APRIL 1
PRAYER THROUGH A LENS OF COGNITIVE BEHAVIORAL THERAPY
With Rabbi Mychal Springer, Adjunct Professor, JTS, and Manager of Clinical Pastoral Education, New York-Presbyterian Hospital
APRIL 8
AWAITING THE GOOD HOUR: HOPE IN THE BIBLE AS A RESOURCE FOR RELIGIOUS LIFE
With Dr. Amy Kalmanofsky, Dean, List College and Kekst Graduate School; Blanche and Romie Shapiro Professor of Bible, JTS
Preparing for the Passover Seder
APRIL 15
With Dr. Robert Harris, Professor of Bible and Ancient Semitic Languages, JTS
MAY 6
ART AS WITNESS: THE WORK AND REMARKABLE SURVIVAL STORY OF ESTHER LURIE
In Commemoration of Yom Hasho’ah (Holocaust Remembrance Day)
With Dr. Shay Pilnik, Director, Emil A. and Jenny Fish Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Yeshiva University (JTS PhD ‘13)
MAY 13
PRAYING FOR THE PEACE OF JERUSALEM
In Commemoration of Yom Hazikkaron (Israel’s Memorial Day for Fallen Soldiers and Victims of Terror)
With Dr. Alan Cooper, Elaine Ravich Professor of Jewish Studies, JTS
May 20
GENDER, THE BIBLE, AND THE ART OF TRANSLATION
With Dr. Elias Sacks, Director, The Jewish Publication Society
JUNE 3
WHAT IS THE TORAH, ACTUALLY? PREPARING FOR SHAVUOT (NEW DATE!)
With Dr. Benjamin Sommer, Professor of Bible and Ancient Semitic Languages, JTS
Note: Each Monday series has its own Zoom link. Please register for the series in order to receive the correct Zoom link for the spring 2024 series.
