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Feb 10 2025
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1:00 pm - 2:00 pm

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Fostering Healing Conversations: How Ancient Texts and Modern Reflections Help Us Care

Monday, February 10, 2024
1:00–2:00 p.m. ET 
Online

With Naomi Kalish, the Harold and Carole Wolfe Director of JTS’s Center for Pastoral Education

How can stories from a time before modern medical intervention grow our skills and capacity for caregiving? And how can stories from a specific religious tradition resonate with people from different backgrounds? This session will focus on the stories from the biblical tradition that enhance the understanding of psychology and behavioral health in the realm of chaplaincy.

This type of learning is at the core of JTS’s innovative MA in Spiritual Care and Counseling. While the master’s program is newly launched, it builds on seventy years of teaching courses that combine Jewish text and tradition with the behavioral sciences, as well as fifteen years as a center for supervised chaplaincy internships to learn the art and science of supporting people during challenging and crucial times.

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.