“Youth Shall See Visions”: Engaging the Next Generation of JTS Learners and Doers

Part of our winter learning series, What’s Next? New Ways of Engaging Jewish Sources

Monday, March 3, 2024
1:00–2:00 p.m. ET 
Online

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.

In this past year, JTS launched two national fellowship programs for teens: Ruchot (in partnership with the Rabbinical Assembly, Adas Israel Congregation, USY, USCJ, and Ramah), which engages them in community organizing and social action, and the Emerging Leaders Fellowship, a student-led research program that introduces high school students to academic Jewish Studies. Both programs are inviting young Jews to establish their own connections to Jewish life and tradition.

Rabbi Stephanie Ruskay, executive director of The JTS Hendel Center for Ethics and Justice, and Dr. Phil Keisman, director of Teen Education, will share lessons they learned from the teens involved in the programs and offer examples of the pedagogy at the core of each program. They will share what will come next for both the students and the programs.

Learn more about the Emerging Leaders Fellowship and Ruchot

About the 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.