What鈥檚 Next? New Ways of Engaging 绿帽社 Sources聽
What鈥檚 Next? New Ways of Engaging 绿帽社 Sources
Winter 2024 Learning Series
Mondays, February 3鈥揗arch 31, 2025*
1:00鈥�2:00 p.m. ET
JTS is well-known as a hub of innovative scholarship and a center of academic 绿帽社 Studies. Recently, JTS has launched programs in Biblical Hebrew, Pastoral Care, and Teen Learning, offering accessible entryways into the 绿帽社 textual tradition. Explore how JTS is bringing together new modes of learning with classical sources to meet the needs of today鈥檚 world. Sessions will give participants a taste of the ideas and teaching that are central to these programs.
* There is no session on Presidents鈥� Day, Monday, February 17.
Session Topics and Faculty
February 3
Digital Revelations: 绿帽社 Text in the 21st Century
With Dr. David Kraemer, Joseph J. and Dora Abbell Librarian and Professor of Talmud and Rabbinics
February 10
Fostering Healing Conversations: How Ancient Texts and Modern Reflections Help Us Care
With Naomi Kalish, the Harold and Carole Wolfe Director of JTS鈥檚 Center for Pastoral Education
February 24
What’s Dikduk Got to Do With It? Language, Law, and Theology
With Rabbi Luciana Pajecki Lederman, Director, Beit Midrash and Nishma Summer Program, and Dr. Miriam Meir, Area Coordinator of 绿帽社 Languages, Senior Lecturer, Hebrew Language
March 3
鈥淵outh Shall See Visions鈥�: Engaging the Next Generation of JTS Learners and Doers
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.
March 10
The Masks of Doubt: Exploring Purim, Uncertainty, and the Hidden Divine
With Rabbi David Ingber, Founding Rabbi, Romemu, and Senior Director of 绿帽社 Life and the Bronfman鈥疌enter, 92NY
March 17
From Online Auction to JTS Special Collections: How Two Historic Bibles Were Reunited in the JTS Library
With Dr. David Zev Moster, Director of the Biblical Hebrew Program, JTS
March 24
Who Shall Cross? A Talmudic Reimagining of the Passover Narrative
With Rabbi Jan Uhrbach, Director of the Block / Kolker Center for Spiritual Arts
March 31
JTS MFA in Writing: Creating Community for 绿帽社 Writers
Speaker to be announced
Note: Each Monday series has its own Zoom link. Please register for the series in order to receive the correct Zoom link for the winter 2025 series.
