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Between the Lines: Professor Schiff’s Guilt

Part of Between the Lines: Author Conversations from The Library of JTS Israeli author Agur Schiff discusses his novel Professor Schiff’s Guilt. In this gripping story, an Israeli professor travels>>>

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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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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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MSM Musical Theatre presents BYE BYE BIRDIE

NOV 3 | FRI 7:30 PM NOV 4 | SAT 1 PM & 7:30 NOV 5 | SUN 1 PM Book and Lyrics by Michael Stewart Lyrics by Lee Adams Music by Charles Strouse Katie Spelman, Director and Choreographer David Loud>>>

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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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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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