Category - Jewish Theological Seminary Media

Remembering Cantor Charles Davidson (z”l)  

JTS mourns the passing of Cantor Charles Davidson, a revered composer, cantor, JTS alum, and H. L. Miller Cantorial School professor. One of the earliest graduates of JTS’s Cantors Institute, he>>>

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Between the Lines: Shadows We Carry

Meryl Ain discusses her new award-winning novel, Shadows We Carry. In this sequel to the award-winning post-Holocaust novel The Takeaway Men, the Lubinski twins struggle with their roles as women and>>>

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Reflections on the March for Israel

We needed to be in Washington, DC yesterday—as Americans and as Jews, standing proudly and without fear among almost 300,000 others.    For some, this trip to DC echoed other rallies that we or our>>>

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Between the Lines: Palestine 1936

Part of Between the Lines: Author Conversations from The Library of JTS Oren Kessler discusses his book Palestine 1936 which tells the epic story—for the first time in English—of the 1936–1939 Arab>>>

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Between the Lines: Religicide

RELIGICIDE: CONFRONTING THE ROOTS OF ANTI-RELIGIOUS VIOLENCE Part of Between the Lines: Author Conversations from The Library of JTS Georgette Bennett will speak about her book, Religicide>>>

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Chancellor Schwartz Shares Her Thoughts on Israel

Each morning during our Shaharit morning prayers, we read Psalm 30, which includes the verse:   הָפַ֣כְתָּ מִסְפְּדִי֮ לְמָח֢וֹל לִ֥֫י פִּתַּ֥חְתָּ שַׂקִּ֑י וַֽתְּאַזְּרֵ֥נִי שִׂמְחָֽה׃   “You turned>>>

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Remembering Dr. Alice Shalvi (z”l)

JTS mourns the death of Dr. Alice Shalvi (z”l), an innovative educator, social activist, and feminist. Dr. Shalvi received an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters degree from JTS in 1999 and later went>>>

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How Shall It End?

With Rabbi Gordon Tucker   The Torah presents Shemini Atzeret—the “Eighth Day of Assembly”—as an add-on to the seven days of the Sukkot pilgrimage festival. The lulav is set aside, and the sukkah>>>

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The Sacrifices of Hagar, Ishmael, and Isaac

With Dr. Aaron Koller  In the Torah readings for Rosh Hashanah, we read about the dissolution of Abraham’s family. First Ishmael is banished and nearly dies in the desert; Hagar leaves the household>>>

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Exile and Return as a Spiritual Paradigm

With Rabbi Mychal Springer The haftarot of the High Holidays link personal teshuvah with the return to the land of Israel. When we hold these two returnings together the spiritual and communal>>>

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