What’s Next? New Ways of Engaging with Jewish Sources

Posted On Feb 3, 2025 / 5785

Mondays, February 3 – March 31*
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 to name a few that offer 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


Digital Revelations:
Jewish Texts in the 21st Century
with Dr. David Kraemer

Fostering Healing Conversations: How Ancient Texts and Modern Reflections Help Us Care
with Rabbi Naomi Kalish
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More information about the Masters in Spiritual Care and Counseling

What’s Dikduk Got to Do With It?
Language, Law, and Theology
with Rabbi Luciana Pajecki Lederman
& Dr. Miriam Meir
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“Youth Shall See Visions”: Engaging the Next Generation of JTS Learners and Doers
with Dr. Phil Keisman
& Rabbi Stephanie Ruskay

The Masks of Doubt: Exploring Purim, Uncertainty, and the Hidden Divine
with Rabbi David Ingber, Founding Rabbi Romemu
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From Online Auction to JTS Special Collections:
How Two Historic Bibles Were Reunited in the JTS Library
with Dr. David Zev Moster

Who Shall Cross?
A Talmudic Reimagining of the Passover Narrative
with Rabbi Jan Uhrbach
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JTS MFA in Writing:
Creating Community for Jewish Writers
with Etgar Keret and Dr. Lisa Springer
March 31, 2025