God, Faith & Identity From the Ashes
Apr 16, 2015 By Library of the Jewish Theological Seminary | Public Event audio
How have the children and grandchildren of Holocaust survivors shaped their identity and developed their attitudes toward God, faith, Judaism, the Jewish people, and the world?
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A Dialogue of Life: Toward the Encounter of Jews and Christians
Mar 26, 2015 By Library of the Jewish Theological Seminary | Public Event audio
This event was cosponsored by The Library and the Milstein Center for Interreligious Dialogue of The Jewish Theological Seminary.
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Leadership in the Bible: A Practical Guide for Today
Feb 19, 2015 By Library of the Jewish Theological Seminary | Public Event audio
How would Abraham, Joseph, and Moses respond to the 40 most difficult situations you encounter in daily life?
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The Bus on Jaffa Road: The Story of Middle East Terrorism and the Search for Justice
Nov 19, 2014 By Library of the Jewish Theological Seminary | Public Event audio
The Bus on Jaffa Road explores the 1996 incident that took the lives of JTS student Matthew Eisenfeld (z”l) and his fiancée, Sara Duker (z”l), and the couple’s legacy.
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Catalog of Judeo-Persian Manuscripts in the Library of the Jewish Theological Seminary
Oct 23, 2014 By Library of the Jewish Theological Seminary | Public Event audio
The JTS Library holds the largest Judeo-Persian manuscript collection in the West, and the third largest in the world. This repository is crucial in understanding the intellectual legacy of the ancient Iranian Jewish community, whose extant works rest in only a few large but neglected collections.
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The Radical American Judaism of Mordecai M. Kaplan
Apr 10, 2013 By Library of the Jewish Theological Seminary | Public Event audio
The philosophy of Mordecai M. Kaplan, longtime professor at JTS (1910 – 1963), dean of its Teachers Institute (1909 – 1946), and founder of the Reconstructionist Movement, is presented in its entirety for the first time in The Radical American Judaism of Mordecai M. Kaplan.
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Memory and Covenant
Feb 3, 2014 By Library of the Jewish Theological Seminary | Public Event audio
Memory and Covenant: The Role of Israel’s and God’s Memory in Sustaining the Deuteronomic and Priestly Covenants combines a close reading of texts in the Deuteronomic, Priestly, and Holiness traditions with analysis of ritual and scrutiny of the different terminology regarding memory that is used in each tradition.
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Dreamland of Humanists: Warburg, Cassirer, Panofsky, and the Hamburg School
Feb 10, 2014 By Library of the Jewish Theological Seminary | Public Event audio
The recent discovery of a new trove of Nazi-looted art in Germany has awakened us to the world of culture and ideas that was lost when Hitler came to power. Dreamland of Humanists: Warburg, Cassirer, Panofsky, and the Hamburg School tells the forgotten story of Hamburg’s emergence as a center of that early 20th-century intellectual world.
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