Category - Member Videos

A conversation about The Book of Revolutions: The Battles of Priests, Prophets and Kings with author Rabbi Edward Feld and JTS’s Rabbi Jan Uhrbach. In dramatic historical accounts grounded in recent>>>

With Rabbi Mychal Springer, Manager of Clinical Pastoral Education at New York-Presbyterian Hospital in New York City and Adjunct Professor, JTS We will explore this prayer that stands at the heart>>>

With Rabbi Eliezer Diamond, Rabbi Judah Nadich Associate Professor of Talmud and Rabbinics All of us want to repent, but we don’t necessarily have a game plan. The nature of forgiveness is also not>>>

With Dr. Barbara Mann, Chana Kekst Professor of Jewish Literature How do objects “tell stories”? Focusing on examples from Jewish material culture and working with ideas from critical theory and>>>

With Dr. Benjamin Levy, Adjunct Assistant Professor The rabbis of late antiquity did not write books of theology or political treatises. Rather, they composed stories that would draw the heart and>>>

The JTS Library houses one of the largest collections of rare Judaica in the world. This series will highlight some of these beautiful and unique works. This episode focuses on the evolution of the>>>

With Dr. Beverly Bailis, Adjunct Associate Professor of Jewish Literature We will discuss protest literature written by different generations of Mizrahi writers and examine how these literary works>>>

The JTS Library houses one of the largest collections of rare Judaica in the world. This series will highlight some of these beautiful and unique works. This session focuses on a Karaite Ketubbah, a>>>

With Dr. Judith Hauptman, E. Billi Ivry Professor Emerita of Talmud and Rabbinic Culture By reading six very short stories in the Babylonian Talmud, we will discover that not just rabbinic>>>

With Dr. Raymond Scheindlin, Professor Emeritus of Medieval Hebrew Literature Joseph, the protagonist of this proto-novel, at the urging of a mysterious companion, undertakes a journey that takes him>>>

The Sacrifice of Isaac is a paradigmatic episode in Jewish philosophy, ethics, and interpretation. But new ideas in modern and postmodern philosophy call us to re-read this narrative, and change the>>>

With Rabbi Mychal Springer, Manager of Clinical Pastoral Education at New York-Presbyterian Hospital in New York City and Adjunct Professor, JTS When we tell the story of coming out of Egypt, it is>>>

With Dr. David Kraemer, Joseph J. and Dora Abbell Librarian and Professor of Talmud and Rabbinics If stories express and transmit values and identities, contested values or identities will find>>>

With Dr. Alan Cooper, Elaine Ravich Professor of Jewish Studies Biblical storytellers are notorious for the way they withhold crucial information about characters’ backgrounds, thoughts, feelings>>>