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JTS Torah CommentaryMoses’s Lessons in Interfaith Dialogue: Va'era 5785The JTS Commentary for Va'era by Claire Davidson Bruder, Student, The Rabbinical School of JTS, and Sherouk Ahmed, Student, Bayan Islamic Graduate School at Chicago Theological SeminaryIn the first week of 2025, the Washington Theological Consortium hosted a weeklong interfaith dialogue program at the United Lutheran Seminary in Philadelphia. Third-year JTS rabbinical student and Milstein Center for Interreligious Dialogue program manager Claire Davidson Bruder participated in this program, alongside other Jewish, Christian, and Muslim seminary students. The following d’var Torah is a collaboration between Claire and Sherouk Ahmed, a chaplaincy student at Bayan, an Islamic graduate school in...2025-01-2208 min
JTS Torah CommentaryIntroducing: Exploring Kabbalah from JTS PodcastsCheck out this new series from JTS Podcasts, Exploring Kabbalah. Dr. Eitan Fishbane shares the complext history of Jewish mystical thought from the Torah to Hasidism. Subscribe now:RSS: https://www.spreaker.com/show/3550593/episodes/feedApple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/exploring-kabbalah/id1739159484Hosted by: Dr. Eitan FishbaneProduced by Ellie GettingerEdited by Sarah BrownCover art: Lee WilletTheme music: “Yah Notein Binah” from Seeds of SongFind more JTS Podcasts at www.jtsa.edu/torah/podcasts2024-04-1112 minJTS Torah CommentaryDancing with Torah: Simhat Torah 5784The JTS Commentary for Simhat Torah by Dr. Amy Kalmanofsky, Dean, List College and Kekst Graduate School; Blanche and Romie Shapiro Professor of Bible, JTSMusic provided by JJReinhold / Pond5.2023-10-0205 minJTS Torah CommentaryWhy We Gather: Sukkot 5784The JTS Commentary for Sukkot by Alisa Braun, PhD, Academic Director, Community Engagement, JTSMusic provided by JJReinhold / Pond5.2023-09-2706 minJTS Torah CommentaryWeren't We Just Forgiven: Ha'azinu 5784The JTS Commentary for Nitzavim Vayeilekh by Rabbi Joel Seltzer, Vice Chancellor for Institutional Advancement, JTSMusic provided by JJReinhold / Pond5.2023-09-2006 minJTS Torah CommentaryReturning With God: Nitzavim Vayeilekh 5783The JTS Commentary for Nitzavim Vayeilekh by Rabbi Mychal Springer, Adjunct Instructor of Professional and Pastoral Skills, JTSOriginally broadcast in 2016Music provided by JJReinhold / Pond5.2023-09-0605 minJTS Torah CommentaryWhat It Means to Enjoy: Ki Tavo 5783The JTS Commentary for Ki Tavo by Dr. Alan Cooper, Elaine Ravich Professor of Jewish Studies, JTSOriginally broadcast in 2016Music provided by JJReinhold / Pond5.2023-08-3010 minJTS Torah CommentaryWho Are You To Judge?: Shofetim 5783The JTS Commentary for Shofetim by Ellie Gettinger, Director of Digital Learning, JTSMusic provided by JJReinhold / Pond5.2023-08-1507 minJTS Torah CommentaryTo Know or Not to Know: Re'eh 5783The JTS Commentary for Re'eh by Dr. Malka Strasberg-Edinger, Adjunct Lecturer in Bible, JTSOriginally broadcast in 2017Music provided by JJReinhold / Pond5.2023-08-0806 minJTS Torah CommentaryWould Our Mother Forget Us?: Eikev 5783The JTS Commentary for Eikev by Dr. Benjamin Sommer, Professor of Bible and Ancient Semitic Languages, JTSOriginally broadcast in 2018Music provided by JJReinhold / Pond5.2023-08-0109 minJTS Torah CommentaryThe Words Upon Our Heart: Va’et-hannan 5783The JTS Commentary for Parshat Va'et-hannan by Rabbi Jan Uhrbach, Director of the Block/Kolker Center for Spiritual Arts, JTSMusic provided by JJReinhold / Pond5.2023-07-2507 minJTS Torah CommentaryTaking Life's Journey with Torah: Devarim 5783The JTS Commentary for Devarim by Dr. Arnold M. Eisen, Chancellor Emiritus and Professor of Jewish Thought, JTSOriginally broadcast in 2018Music provided by JJReinhold / Pond5.2023-07-1812 minJTS Torah CommentaryUpgrading the Torah--And the World: Mattot-Masei 5783The JTS Commentary for Parshat Mattot-Masei by Dr. Benjamin Sommer, Professor of Bible and Ancient Semitic Languages, JTSOriginally broadcast in 2017Music provided by JJReinhold / Pond5.2023-07-1207 minJTS Torah CommentaryDid Korah Get a Bum Rap?: Korah 5783The JTS Commentary for Parshat Korah by Rabbi Robert Harris, Professor of Bible and Ancient Semitic Languages, JTSMusic provided by JJReinhold / Pond5.2023-06-2116 minJTS Torah CommentaryAlways Something There to Remind Me: Shelah Lekha 5783The JTS Commentary for Parshat Shelah Lekha by Dr. Abigail Uhrman, Assistant Professor of Jewish Education, JTSMusic provided by JJReinhold / Pond5.2023-06-1307 minJTS Torah CommentaryAt the Threshold: Beha'alotekha 5783The JTS Commentary for Parshat Beha’alotekha by Rabbi Gordon Tucker, Vice Chancellor for Religious Life and Engagement, JTSMusic provided by JJReinhold / Pond5.2023-06-0607 minJTS Torah CommentaryThe Power of a Blessing: Naso 5783The JTS Commentary for Parshat Naso by Rabbi Eliezer Diamond, Rabbi Judah Nadich Associate Professor of Talmud and Rabbinics, JTSMusic provided by JJReinhold / Pond5.2023-05-3006 minJTS Torah CommentaryHow Should We Know God?: Shavuot 5783The JTS Commentary for Shavuot by Benjamin D. Sommer, Professor of Bible and Ancient Semitic Languages, JTSMusic provided by JJReinhold / Pond5.2023-05-2311 minJTS Torah CommentaryReliving Revelation: Bemidbar 5783The JTS Commentary for Parshat Bemidbar by Rabbi Gordon Tucker, Vice Chancellor for Religious Life and Engagement, JTSMusic provided by JJReinhold / Pond5.2023-05-1703 minJTS Torah CommentaryIt Passes and We Stay: Tazria Metzora 5783The JTS Commentary for Parshat Tazria Metzora by Rabbi Jan Uhrbach, Director of the Block / Kolker Center for Spiritual Arts, JTSOriginally broadcast in 2018Music provided by JJReinhold / Pond5.2023-04-1810 minJTS Torah CommentaryA Love That Transforms: Shemini 5783The JTS Commentary for Parshat Shemini by Dr. Leonard A. Sharzer, Associate Director for Bioethics Emeritus,The Finkelstein Institute of Religious and Social Studies, JTSOriginally broadcast in 2017Music provided by JJReinhold / Pond5.2023-04-1008 minJTS Torah CommentaryThe Primacy of Questions: Tzav 5783The JTS Commentary for Shabbat Hagadol, Parshat Tzav by Rabbi Joel Seltzer, Vice Chancellor for Institutional Advancement, JTSMusic provided by JJReinhold / Pond5.2023-03-2907 minJTS Torah CommentaryWhat Does It Mean to Be Called?: Vayikra 5783The JTS Commentary for Vayikra by Rabbi Burton L. Visotzky, Nathan and Janet Appleman Professor Emeritus of Midrash and Interreligious Studies, JTSThis commentary was originally published in 2014.Music provided by JJReinhold / Pond5.2023-03-2107 minJTS Torah CommentaryMaking Space for God’s Presence: Vayak-hel Pekudei 5783The JTS Commentary for Vayak-hel Pekudei by Rabbi Kara L. Tav (RS ’10), MA, BCC, Adjunct Lecturer, JTSMusic provided by JJReinhold / Pond5.2023-03-1509 minJTS Torah CommentaryWhen Is Humility Not a Virtue?: Ki Tissa 5783The JTS Commentary for Ki Tissa by Dr. Walter Herzberg, Assistant Professor Emeritus of Hebrew Bible and Its Interpretation and Professional Pastoral Skills, JTSMusic provided by JJReinhold / Pond5.2023-03-0808 minJTS Torah CommentaryThe Meaning of Aaron's Holy Garments: Tetzavveh 5783The JTS Commentary for Tetzavveh by Dr. Robert Harris, Professor of Bible and Ancient Semitic Languages, JTSThe commentary was originally published in 2010.Music provided by JJReinhold / Pond5.2023-02-2812 minJTS Torah CommentaryGold and Incense--For Better or Worse: Terumah 5783The JTS Commentary for Terumah by Dr. Stephen A. Geller, Irma Cameron Milstein Professor Emeritus of Bible and Ancient Semitic Languages, JTSThis podcast was originally broadcast in 2015Music provided by JJReinhold / Pond5.2023-02-2108 minJTS Torah CommentaryWhy Does the Torah Care About Returning Lost Property?: Mishpatim 5783The JTS Commentary for Misphatim by Dr. Yael Landman, Assistant Professor of Bible, JTSMusic provided by JJReinhold / Pond5.2023-02-1409 minJTS Torah CommentaryHow Do We Meet At Sinai?: Yitro 5783The JTS Commentary for Yitro by Amelia Wolf, Student, The Rabbinical School of JTS (Class of 2023)Music provided by JJReinhold / Pond5.2023-02-0709 minJTS Torah CommentaryHow Do We Keep Our Hands Up?: Beshallah 5783The JTS Commentary for Beshallah by Rabbi E. Noach Shapiro, LCSW, Adjunct Professor, Center for Pastoral Education at JTSMusic provided by JJReinhold / Pond5.2023-02-0107 minJTS Torah CommentaryHow Does Moses Cope When Expectations Fall Short?: Bo 5783The JTS Commentary for Bo by Andy Weissfeld, Student, The Rabbinical School of JTS (Class of 2023)Music provided by JJReinhold / Pond5.2023-01-2605 minJTS Torah CommentaryWhy Did Moses Have a Speech Disability? : Va'era 5783The JTS Commentary for Va’era by Dr. Sarah Wolf, Assistant Professor of Talmud and Rabbinics, JTS.Music provided by JJReinhold / Pond5.2023-01-1807 minJTS Torah CommentaryGod's Human Partner: Shemot 5783The JTS Commentary for Shemot by Dr. Ismar Schorsch, Chancellor Emeritus and Rabbi Herman Abramovitz Distinguished Service Professor of Jewish History, JTS.This piece is adapted from a commentary published in 2002 and can be found in Canon Without Closure: Torah Commentaries (Aviv Press: 2007).Music provided by JJReinhold / Pond5.2023-01-0912 minJTS Torah CommentaryParenting Lessons from the Parashah: Vayehi 5783The JTS Commentary for Vayehi by Dr. Jonathan S. Milgram, Associate Professor of Talmud and Rabbinics, JTSMusic provided by JJReinhold / Pond5.2023-01-0407 minJTS Torah CommentaryThe Gradual Journey to Forgiveness: Vayiggash 5783The JTS Commentary for Vayiggash by Rabbi Matt Berkowitz, Director of Israel Programs, JTSMusic provided by JJReinhold / Pond5.2022-12-2206 minJTS Torah CommentaryThe Power of Tamar: Vayeshev 5783The JTS Commentary for Vayeshev by Aaron Leven, Student, The Rabbinical School of JTS (Class of 2023)Music provided by JJReinhold / Pond5.2022-12-1407 minJTS Torah CommentaryWas Laban Really Worse than Pharaoh? Vayetzei 5783The JTS Commentary for Vayetzei by Avi Garelick, Principal, Rebecca and Israel Ivry Prozdor High School, JTSMusic provided by JJReinhold / Pond5.2022-11-3004 minJTS Torah CommentaryRebecca the Patriarch: Hayyei Sarah 5783The JTS Commentary for Hayyei Sarah by Rabbi Judith Rebecca Hauptman, E. Billi Ivry Professor Emerita of Talmud and Rabbinical Culture, JTSMusic provided by JJReinhold / Pond5.2022-11-1606 minJTS Torah CommentaryWomen of Faith: Vayera 5783The JTS Commentary for Vayera by Dr. Amy Kalmanofsky, Dean, List College and Kekst Graduate School and Blanche and Romie Shapiro Professor of Bible, JTSOriginally broadcast in 2017Music provided by JJReinhold / Pond5.2022-11-0807 minJTS Torah CommentaryAfter the Flood: Noah 5783The JTS Commentary for Noah by Alisa Braun, PhD, Academic Director, Community Engagement, JTSMusic provided by JJReinhold / Pond5.2022-10-2606 minJTS Torah CommentaryThe World of Creation in Each of Us: Bereishit 5783The JTS Commentary for Bereishit by Israel Gordan (CS, DS ’11), Student, The Rabbinical School of JTS (Class of 2023)Music provided by JJReinhold / Pond5.2022-10-2006 minJTS Torah CommentaryImpermanence by Design: Sukkot 5783The JTS Commentary for Sukkot by Grace Gleason, Student, The Rabbinical School of JTS (Class of 2023)Music provided by JJReinhold / Pond5.2022-10-1205 minJTS Torah CommentaryMaking Every Word Count: Ha'azinu 5783The JTS Commentary for Ha'azinu by Dr. Arnold M. Eisen, Chancellor Emeritus and Professor of Jewish Thought, JTS. Originally broadcast in 2016Music provided by JJReinhold / Pond5.2022-10-0309 minJTS Torah CommentaryThe Courage to Hope: Vayeilekh 5783The JTS Commentary for Vayeilekh by Rabbi Ayelet S. Cohen, Pearl Resnick Dean of The Rabbinical School and Dean of the Division of Religious Leadership, JTSMusic provided by JJReinhold / Pond5.2022-09-2908 minJTS Torah CommentaryConfronting Our “Concealed Things”: Nitzavim 5782The JTS Commentary for Nitzavim by Rabbi Gordon Tucker, Vice Chancellor for Religious Life and Engagement, JTSMusic provided by JJReinhold / Pond5.2022-09-2009 minJTS Torah CommentaryCount Your Blessings: Ki Tavo 5782The JTS Commentary for Ki Tavo by Rabbi Burton Visotzky, Nathan and Janet Appleman Professor Emeritus of Midrash and Interreligious Studies, JTSMusic provided by JJReinhold / Pond5.2022-09-1407 minJTS Torah CommentaryWhat Does the Torah Really Say about Cross-Dressing?: Ki Tetzei 5782The JTS Commentary for Ki Tetzei 5782 by Dr. Joy Ladin, Past Adjunct Professor, JTS; David and Ruth Gottesman Chair in English, Yeshiva University (2003-2021)Music provided by JJReinhold / Pond5.2022-09-0808 minJTS Torah CommentaryProphets of Faith: Shofetim 5782The JTS Commentary for Shoftim by Dr. Amy Kalmanofsky, Dean, Albert A. List College of Jewish Studies and Kekst Graduate School; Blanche and Romie Shapiro Professor of Bible, JTS. This episode originally aired in 2019.Music provided by JJReinhold / Pond5.2022-08-3007 minJTS Torah CommentaryThe Meaning of Repetition, Repetition: Re'eh 5782The JTS Commentary for Re'eh by Rabbi David Zev Moster, PhD, Adjunct Assistant Professor of Bible, JTS Music provided by JJReinhold / Pond5.2022-08-2306 minJTS Torah CommentaryRaising Children in the Land of Plenty: Eikev 5782The JTS Commentary for Eikev by Gavriella Kornsgold, Student, The Rabbinical School of JTS (Class of 2023)Music provided by JJReinhold / Pond5.2022-08-1707 minJTS Torah CommentaryNever Too Late to Get Close: Va’et-hannan 5782The JTS Commentary for Va’et-hannan by Benjy Forester, Student, The Rabbinical School of JTS (Class of 2023)Music provided by JJReinhold / Pond5.2022-08-0909 minJTS Torah CommentaryDo Women's Vows Count? A 21st Century Problem: Mattot-Massei 5782The JTS Commentary for Mattot-Massei by Rabbi Stephanie Ruskay, Executive Director, Hendel Center for Ethics and Justice, and Associate Dean of The Rabbinical School, JTSMusic provided by JJReinhold / Pond5.2022-07-2607 minJTS Torah CommentaryThe Liberator and the Zealot: Pinehas 5782The JTS Commentary for Pinehas by Rabbi Eliezer Diamond, PhD, Rabbi Judah Nadich Associate Professor of Talmud and Rabbinics, JTSMusic provided by JJReinhold / Pond5.2022-07-1908 minJTS Torah CommentaryThe Thrill and the Terror of the Foreign Prophet: Balak 5782The JTS Commentary for Balak by Dr. Aaron Koller, Adjunct Professor of Talmud, JTS and Professor of Near Eastern Studies, Yeshiva University Music provided by JJReinhold / Pond5.2022-07-1306 minJTS Torah CommentaryHow Should One Shine One’s Light? Beha’alotekha 5782The JTS Commentary for Beha’alotekha by Rabbi Luciana Pajecki Lederman (RS ’05, KGS ’21), Adjunct Instructor, JTSMusic provided by JJReinhold / Pond5.2022-06-1409 minJTS Torah CommentaryDoes God Speak: Naso 5782The JTS Commentary for Naso by Benjamin D. Sommer, Professor of Bible and Ancient Semitic Languages, JTSMusic provided by JJReinhold / Pond5.2022-06-0809 minJTS Torah CommentaryCounting With the Full Severity of Compassion: Bemidbar 5782The JTS Commentary for Bemidbar by Beverly Bailis, (KGS ’12), Director of Academic Planning and Assistant Professor of Jewish Literature, JTSMusic provided by JJReinhold / Pond5.2022-06-0109 minJTS Torah CommentaryThe Blessings of Curses: Behukkotai 5782The JTS Commentary for Behukkotai by Ellie Gettinger, Director of Digital Learning, JTSMusic provided by JJReinhold / Pond5.2022-05-2406 minJTS Torah CommentaryFor What Should I Compromise on Religious Observance?: Emor 5782The JTS Commentary for Emor by Alan Imar, Student, Albert A. List College of Jewish Studies, JTS (Class of 2022)Music provided by JJReinhold / Pond5.2022-05-1106 minJTS Torah CommentaryFruit Trees and Foreskins: Kedoshim 5782The JTS Commentary for Kedoshim by Dr. Naama Weiss, Adjunct Instructor of Hebrew, JTS.Music provided by JJReinhold / Pond5.2022-05-0409 minJTS Torah CommentaryWho is the Stranger: Aharei Mot 5782The JTS Commentary for Aharei Mot by Linda S. Golding, Staff Chaplain and Coordinator, Pastoral Services Milstein Hospital, New York-Presbyterian Hospital; Adjunct Lecturer, JTSMusic provided by JJReinhold / Pond5.2022-04-2608 minJTS Torah CommentaryRememembering Together: Last Days of Pesah 5782The JTS Commentary for the Last Days of Pesah by William Plevan, Adjunct Assistant Professor, JTSMusic provided by JJReinhold / Pond5.2022-04-2007 minJTS Torah CommentaryWhich is Wiser?: The Story of the Exodus or the Laws of Pesah?: Pesah 5782The JTS Commentary for Pesah by Jeremy Tabick, PhD Candidate in Talmud and Rabbinics, JTSMusic provided by JJReinhold / Pond5.2022-04-1106 minJTS Torah CommentaryEvergreen Lessons from the Haggadah: Shabbat Hagadol 5782The JTS Commentary for Shabbat Hagadol by Dr. Shuly Rubin Schwartz, Chancellor and Irving Lehrman Professor of American Jewish History, JTSMusic provided by JJReinhold / Pond5.2022-04-0509 minJTS Torah CommentaryHere I Am, Tzara’at and All: Tazria 5782The JTS Commentary for Tazria by Dr. Rachel Rosenthal, JTS Adjunct Assistant Professor of Talmud and RabbinicsMusic provided by JJReinhold / Pond5.2022-03-2907 minJTS Torah CommentaryDeathly Power of the Holy: Shemini 5782The JTS Commentary for Shemini by Rabbi Marcus Mordecai Schwartz, Director, Matthew Eisenfeld and Sara Duker Beit Midrash; Assistant Professor of Talmud and Rabbinics, JTSMusic provided by JJReinhold / Pond5.2022-03-2209 minJTS Torah CommentaryLessons From the Ashes: Tzav 5782The JTS Commentary for Tzav by Rabbi Naomi Kalish, Harold and Carole Wolfe Director of the Center for Pastoral Education, JTSMusic provided by JJReinhold / Pond5.2022-03-1608 minJTS Torah Commentary"Tis the Gift to Be Simple": Vayikra 5782The JTS Commentary for Vayikra by Rabbi Gordon Tucker, Vice Chancellor for Religious Life and Engagement, JTSMusic provided by JJReinhold / Pond5.2022-03-0910 minJTS Torah CommentaryCan You Rival and Respect Your Teacher?: Pekudei 5782The JTS Commentary for Pekudei by Rabbi Matthew Berkowitz, Director of Israel Programs, JTSMusic provided by JJReinhold / Pond5.2022-03-0105 minJTS Torah CommentaryThe Sanctity of the Schoolroom: Vayak-hel 5782The JTS Commentary for Vayak-hel by Dr. Ofra Arieli Backenroth, Associate Dean, William Davidson Graduate School of Jewish Education and Assistant Professor of Jewish Education, JTSMusic provided by JJReinhold / Pond5.2022-02-2207 minJTS Torah CommentaryGarments of Light: Tetzavveh 5782The JTS Commentary for Yitro by Dr. Raymond Scheindlin, Professor Emeritus of Medieval Hebrew Literature, JTSMusic provided by JJReinhold / Pond5.2022-02-0807 minJTS Torah CommentaryHolding God, Our Tradition, and One Another Close: Terumah 5782The JTS Commentary for Yitro by Rabbi Jacob Blumenthal, Chief Executive, USCJ and the Rabbinical Assembly, JTS Alumnus (RS ’99)Music provided by JJReinhold / Pond5.2022-02-0307 minJTS Torah CommentaryThe Torah’s Creative Team: Mishpatim 5782The JTS Commentary for Yitro by David Shmidt Chapman, Student, The Rabbinical School of JTS (Class of 2022)Music provided by JJReinhold / Pond5.2022-01-2507 minJTS Torah CommentaryStrangers at a Revelation: Yitro 5782The JTS Commentary for Yitro by Dr. Miriam Feldmann Kaye, Adjunct Associate Professor, JTSMusic provided by JJReinhold / Pond5.2022-01-1908 minJTS Torah CommentaryCommanded to Remember: Beshallah 5782The JTS Commentary for Beshallah by Rabbi Nicole Wilson-Spiro, PhD Candidate in Rabbinic Literature, JTS Music provided by JJReinhold / Pond5.2022-01-0605 minJTS Torah CommentaryTeach Your Children Well: Bo 5782The JTS Commentary for Bo by Dov Kahane, PhD Candidate in Talmud and Rabbinics, JTS. Music provided by JJReinhold / Pond5.2022-01-0407 minJTS Torah CommentaryCover Crop for a Hardened Heart: Va'era 5782The JTS Commentary for Shemot by Dave Yedid, The Rabbinical School of JTS (Class of 2022). Music provided by JJReinhold / Pond5.2021-12-2307 minJTS Torah CommentaryWho is “Us?”: Shemot 5782The JTS Commentary for Shemot by Jessica Dell'Era, The Rabbinical School of JTS (Class of 2022). Music provided by JJReinhold / Pond5.2021-12-2108 min
Between the Lines: Author Conversations from the Library of JTSThe Art of the Jewish Family: A History Of Women In Early New York In Five ObjectsA DISCUSSION WITH AUTHOR DR. LAURA ARNOLD LEIBMANIn "The Art of the Jewish Family" Dr. Laura Arnold Leibman examines five objects owned by a diverse group of Jewish women who lived in New York between the years 1750 and 1850. Each chapter creates a biography of a single woman through an object, offering a new methodology that looks past texts alone to material culture in order to further understand early Jewish American women’s lives and restore their agency as creators of Jewish identity.This event was sponsored by The JTS Library. Dr. David Kraemer, Joseph J. an...2020-06-241h 12Between the Lines: Author Conversations from the Library of JTSVoices from the Warsaw Ghetto: Writing Our HistoryA discussion with JTS's Dr. David G. Roskies about his powerful new collection of writings from the Warsaw Ghetto, recording the Holocaust from the perspective of its first interpreters, the victims themselves.Hidden in metal containers and buried underground during World War II, these works from the Warsaw Ghetto record the Holocaust from the perspective of its first interpreters, the victims themselves. Gathered clandestinely by an underground ghetto collective called Oyneg Shabes, the collection of reportage, diaries, prose, artwork, poems, jokes, and sermons captures the heroism, tragedy, humor, and social dynamics of the ghetto. Miraculously surviving the devastation...2020-01-231h 00Between the Lines: Author Conversations from the Library of JTSConfronting HateAs hate crimes and domestic terrorism dominate the headlines, the legacy of the late Rabbi Marc Tanenbaum as a leader in interfaith and race relations in the United States and around the world becomes more and more relevant with each atrocity that is perpetrated in the name of racial purity, religion and rectitude. His widow, humanitarian and philanthropist Dr. Georgette Bennett, discusses the first-ever biography of Rabbi Tanenbaum, Confronting Hate: The Untold Story of the Rabbi Who Stood Up for Human Rights, Racial Justice and Religious Reconciliation by Deborah Hart Strober and Gerald S. Strober. From...2019-10-2957 min
What Now? A JTS PodcastOn a Scale of One to Ten—Sarah WolfIn this season finale, Dr. Sarah Wolf, Assistant Professor of Talmud and Rabbinics at JTS, talks with Sara Beth about the impact of inherited tragedies, from her own family’s losses to the destruction of the Temple. And Sara Beth reaches the end of her journey (for now). She shares what she’s learned this season, and discovers the rabbinic wisdom of reframing our suffering by taking our lives’ narratives by the horns.Professor Wolf recently published an academic paper on this topic: “Suffering and Sacrifice: The Hermeneutics of Yisurin in the Babylonian Talmud”, Studies in Late Antiquity, Vol. 3 No...2019-08-0135 minWhat Now? A JTS PodcastThis One Goes to Eleven—David FishmanSara Beth talks with Dr. David Fishman, Professor of Jewish History and Director of Project Judaica at JTS, about a tragedy that’s an 11 on a scale of one to 10. Professor Fishman describes the inspiration he’s found in the Vilna ghetto heroes of his recent book, who risked their lives daily to save artifacts from destruction, and who refused to let their tragedy define them.The Book Smugglers by David Fishman: https://www.upne.com/1512600490.htmlCover art: Aura LewisTheme music: “Jat Poure” by Blue Dot Sessions (www.sessions.blue).Funding: The Louis Fi...2019-07-2533 minWhat Now? A JTS PodcastRestoring Balance—Julia AndelmanThis week’s guest, Rabbi Julia Andelman, Director of Community Engagement at JTS, explains kapparah (atonement) and the ruptures in the cosmic equilibrium created by sin and suffering. She and Sara Beth discuss how these ruptures can be repaired in our post-sacrificial era. (No livestock was harmed in the production of this episode.)Cover art: Aura LewisTheme music: “Jat Poure” by Blue Dot Sessions (www.sessions.blue).Funding: The Louis Finkelstein Institute for Religious & Social Studies at JTS.Contact us at onlinelearning@jtsa.edu, and find other JTS podcasts at www.jtsa.edu/podcasts.2019-07-1830 minWhat Now? A JTS PodcastFrom Loss to Action—Stephanie RuskaySara Beth talks to Rabbi Stephanie Ruskay, associate dean of The Rabbinical School, associate director of the Louis Finkelstein Institute for Religious and Social Studies, and executive director of the Hendel Center for Ethics and Justice, all at JTS! Rabbi Ruskay shares her journey to becoming a leader in the world of Jewish social justice, guided by a monumental loss—and some very tiny tragedies along the way.Cover art: Aura LewisTheme music: “Jat Poure” by Blue Dot Sessions (www.sessions.blue).Funding: The Louis Finkelstein Institute for Religious & Social Studies at JTS.Contact us at...2019-07-1129 minWhat Now? A JTS PodcastSympathetic Teachers and Rebellious Rabbis—David KraemerDr. David Kraemer, Joseph J. and Dora Abbell Librarian and Professor of Talmud and Rabbinics at JTS, combs the canon of Jewish wisdom to find the right theological insights—and the right books—for the individual who has suffered a tragedy. And Sara Beth and Professor Kraemer found the first rabbinic motorcycle club.Cover art: Aura LewisTheme music: “Jat Poure” by Blue Dot Sessions (www.sessions.blue).Funding: The Louis Finkelstein Institute for Religious & Social Studies at JTS.Contact us at onlinelearning@jtsa.edu, and find other JTS podcasts at www.jtsa.edu/podcasts.2019-07-0431 minWhat Now? A JTS PodcastWe Were Strangers—Abigail UhrmanDr. Abigail Uhrman, assistant professor of Jewish education in the William Davidson Graduate School of Jewish Education at JTS, explains how to have difficult conversations with children (and adults), and why we need to channel our tragedies into change. She also shares her passion for increasing access to Jewish education for all students and families. Cover art: Aura LewisTheme music: “Jat Poure” by Blue Dot Sessions (www.sessions.blue).Funding: The Louis Finkelstein Institute for Religious & Social Studies at JTS.Contact us at onlinelearning@jtsa.edu, and find other JTS podcasts at www.jtsa.edu...2019-06-2724 minWhat Now? A JTS PodcastGetting Honest With Yourself—Eliezer DiamondSara Beth talks to Rabbi Eliezer Diamond, Rabbi Judah Nadich Associate Professor of Talmud and Rabbinics at JTS, about the power of acknowledging all the parts of ourselves in order to move forward. We also learn what happens when a Catholic priest walks into a rabbi’s hospital room.Cover art: Aura LewisTheme music: “Jat Poure” by Blue Dot Sessions (www.sessions.blue).Funding: The Louis Finkelstein Institute for Religious & Social Studies at JTS.Contact us at onlinelearning@jtsa.edu, and find other JTS podcasts at www.jtsa.edu/podcasts.2019-06-2029 minWhat Now? A JTS PodcastThe Wholeness of a Broken Heart—Mychal SpringerSara Beth talks with Rabbi Mychal Springer, founding director of the Center for Pastoral Education at JTS. Rabbi Springer shares her insights about living with brokenness derived both from her own losses, and from a career of helping others in crisis. And Sara Beth reveals why she’s been avoiding Rabbi Springer for all these years.Rabbi Springer is stepping down from her role at JTS this summer to become Manager of Clinical Pastoral Education at New York-Presbyterian Hospital. Cover art: Aura LewisTheme music: “Jat Poure” by Blue Dot Sessions (www.sessions.blue).Fundin...2019-06-1326 minWhat Now? A JTS PodcastMourning in Public—Shuly Rubin SchwartzSara Beth talks with Dr. Shuly Schwartz, Provost of JTS, Irving Lehrman Research Associate Professor of American Jewish History, and Sala and Walter Schlesinger Dean of the Gershon Kekst Graduate School. Dr. Schwartz shares the mourning and remembering practices, some innovative and some ancient, that have supported her family through even the most wrenching of bereavements. We also learn why Henrietta Szold insisted on saying kaddish herself, in 1916. Cover art: Aura LewisTheme music: “Jat Poure” by Blue Dot Sessions (www.sessions.blue).Funding: The Louis Finkelstein Institute for Religious & Social Studies at JTS.Contact us a...2019-06-0635 minThe Voice of the ProphetIntroducing What Now? A JTS PodcastIn this opening episode of JTS’s new podcast, What Now?, host Sara Beth Berman tells her story and speaks with Professor Alan Mittleman. Dr. Mittleman shares his own experiences with loss, framing tragedies as taking place in a world that is nevertheless good and that gives us reason for hope. We also learn why giving Professor Mittleman advice is never a good idea. Subscribe now:RSS: https://www.spreaker.com/show/3550593/episodes/feedApple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/what-now-a-jts-podcast/id1465791989 Cover art: Aura LewisTheme music: “Jat Poure”by Blue D...2019-06-0329 minBetween the Lines: Author Conversations from the Library of JTSIntroducing What Now? A JTS PodcastIn this opening episode of JTS’s new podcast, What Now?, host Sara Beth Berman tells her story and speaks with Professor Alan Mittleman. Dr. Mittleman shares his own experiences with loss, framing tragedies as taking place in a world that is nevertheless good and that gives us reason for hope. We also learn why giving Professor Mittleman advice is never a good idea. Subscribe now:RSS: https://www.spreaker.com/show/3550593/episodes/feedApple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/what-now-a-jts-podcast/id1465791989 Cover art: Aura LewisTheme music: “Jat Poure”by Blue D...2019-06-0229 minJTS Torah CommentaryIntroducing What Now? A JTS PodcastIn this opening episode of JTS’s new podcast, What Now?, host Sara Beth Berman tells her story and speaks with Professor Alan Mittleman. Dr. Mittleman shares his own experiences with loss, framing tragedies as taking place in a world that is nevertheless good and that gives us reason for hope. We also learn why giving Professor Mittleman advice is never a good idea. Subscribe now:RSS: https://www.spreaker.com/show/3550593/episodes/feedApple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/what-now-a-jts-podcast/id1465791989 Cover art: Aura LewisTheme music: “Jat Poure”by Blue D...2019-06-0229 minBoth/AndIntroducing What Now? A JTS PodcastIn this opening episode of JTS’s new podcast, What Now?, host Sara Beth Berman tells her story and speaks with Professor Alan Mittleman. Dr. Mittleman shares his own experiences with loss, framing tragedies as taking place in a world that is nevertheless good and that gives us reason for hope. We also learn why giving Professor Mittleman advice is never a good idea. Subscribe now:RSS: https://www.spreaker.com/show/3550593/episodes/feedApple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/what-now-a-jts-podcast/id1465791989 Cover art: Aura LewisTheme music: “Jat Poure”by Blue D...2019-06-0229 minWhat Now? A JTS PodcastTalking Back to God—Benjamin SommerSara Beth talks to Dr. Benjamin Sommer, Professor of Bible and Ancient Semitic Languages at JTS. Professor Sommer takes us back to Ancient Israel, and explains how Psalms can validate our anger with God, and even help us find support from our community. He also shares how the reference to his work he’s most proud of is the one that ended up in the footnotes to a book about Bruce Springsteen. Cover art: Aura LewisTheme music: “Jat Poure” by Blue Dot Sessions (www.sessions.blue).Funding: The Louis Finkelstein Institute for Religious & Social Studies at JTS...2019-05-2933 minWhat Now? A JTS PodcastWe Suffer Because We Care—Alan MittlemanIn this opening episode, host Sara Beth Berman tells her story and speaks with Dr. Alan Mittleman, Aaron Rabinowitz and Simon H. Rifkind Professor of Jewish Philosophy at JTS. Prof. Mittleman shares his own experiences with loss, framing tragedies as taking place in a world that is nevertheless good and that gives us reason for hope. We also learn why giving Professor Mittleman advice is never a good idea. Cover art: Aura LewisTheme music: “Jat Poure” by Blue Dot Sessions (www.sessions.blue).Funding: The Louis Finkelstein Institute for Religious & Social Studies at JTS.Cont...2019-05-2828 minBetween the Lines: Author Conversations from the Library of JTSThe Art of Mystical NarrativeWatch the event video at http://www.jtsa.edu/the-art-of-mystical-narrative-a-zohar-symposiumIn The Art of Mystical Narrative: A Poetics of the Zohar (Oxford University Press, 2018), Dr. Eitan Fishbane reveals the Zohar as an extraordinary narrative—the tale of a wandering kabbalist sage seeking wisdom in ancient Galilee—a fiction invented by 13th-century Jewish mystics in Spain. Calling it “one of the greatest works of world religious literature,” Dr. Fishbane explores the Zohar’s storytelling through the various lenses of literary criticism, clarifying its deep integration with mystical theology.This event features a discussion of the narrative and poetic fea...2018-12-131h 16
Both/And8: Looking to the futureNeil Gillman, professor of philosophy at JTS, made it his mission to encourage generations of JTS students, as well as countless members of the Jewish public, to develop their own theologies, rather than relying exclusively on the giants of the past such as those who have been discussed in this podcast. Chancellor Eisen lays out his own approach, grounded in the ongoing covenant with God that enables us to continue the authoritative Jewish conversation in our generation. Further readingNeil Gillman, Sacred FragmentsArnold Eisen, Conservative Judaism Today and Tomorrow (www.jtsa.edu/today)2018-10-2612 minJTS Torah CommentaryVayera 5779The JTS Commentary for Parashat Vayera by JTS Rabbinical School Student Steven Philp.2018-10-2304 minBoth/And4: A Judaism OF the peopleIf Judaism can change, what must remain constant? Solomon Schechter, who became the President of JTS, identified the core elements of Judaism that unite all Jews who are part of the tradition, across ideologies and across time. Mordecai Kaplan, a professor of Midrash at JTS, took these elements and interpreted them as constituting a civilization that, he proposed, could be embraced by modern American Jews.Further reading:Solomon Schechter, “Historical Judaism,” “Excerpts from Seminary Addresses,” and “The Work of Heaven,” in Waxman, Tradition and Change (89-109, 163-172)Mordecai M. Kaplan, Judaism as a Civilization, (3-15, 173-208, 431-435); 2018-09-2811 min