What’s Next? New Ways of Engaging Jewish Sources
What’s Next? New Ways of Engaging Jewish Sources
Winter 2024 Learning Series
Mondays, February 3–March 24, 2025*
1:00–2:00 p.m. ET
JTS is well-known as a hub of innovative scholarship and a center of academic Jewish Studies. Recently, JTS has launched programs in Biblical Hebrew, Pastoral Care, and Teen Learning, offering accessible entryways into the Jewish textual tradition. Explore how JTS is bringing together new modes of learning with classical sources to meet the needs of today’s world. Sessions will give participants a taste of the ideas and teaching that are central to these programs.
* There is no session on Presidents’ Day, Monday, February 17.
Session Topics and Faculty
February 3
Digital Revelations: Jewish Text in the 21st Century
With Dr. David Kraemer, Joseph J. and Dora Abbell Librarian and Professor of Talmud and Rabbinics
February 10
Fostering Healing Conversations: How Ancient Texts and Modern Reflections Help Us Care
With Naomi Kalish, the Harold and Carole Wolfe Director of JTS’s Center for Pastoral Education
February 24
What’s Dikduk Got to Do With It? Language, Law, and Theology
With Rabbi Luciana Pajecki Lederman, Director, Beit Midrash and Nishma Summer Program, and Dr. Miriam Meir, Area Coordinator of Jewish Languages, Senior Lecturer, Hebrew Language
March 3
“Youth Shall See Visions”: Engaging the Next Generation of JTS Learners and Doers
With Dr. Phil Keisman, Director of Teen Education, JTS, and Rabbi Stephanie Ruskay, Associate Dean, The Rabbinical School, Executive Director, The JTS Hendel Center for Ethics and Justice.
March 10
The Masks of Doubt: Exploring Purim, Uncertainty, and the Hidden Divine
With Rabbi David Ingber, Founding Rabbi, Romemu, and Senior Director of Jewish Life and the Bronfman Center, 92NY
March 17
From Online Auction to JTS Special Collections: How Two Historic Bibles Were Reunited in the JTS Library
With Dr. David Zev Moster, Director of the Biblical Hebrew Program, JTS
March 24
JTS MFA in Writing: Creating Community for Jewish Writers
Speaker to be announced
Note: Each Monday series has its own Zoom link. Please register for the series in order to receive the correct Zoom link for the winter 2025 series.
