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  1. Saul Bellow's Spiritual Quest

    Video by JTS on May 8, 2013 in Culture

    The Jewish Theological Seminary (JTS) was pleased to host Greg Bellow, who will discussed with JTS Chancellor Arnold M. Eisen what it was like to grow up with legendary author Saul Bellow as a father, as well as the older Bellow's personal, ...

    chschwartz - May 8, 2013

  2. The Fiction of Teshuva

    Video by JTS on December 3, 2012 in Culture

    Join best-selling authors Susan Isaacs and Linda Fairstein as they discuss the characters in their books and whether teshuvah is really possible-or if it is just fiction. The program, moderated by Rabbi Burton L. Visotzky, was held on Tuesday, Nov ...

    chschwartz - December 3, 2012

  3. Fashion: What It Means and Why It Matters

    Video by JTS on March 11, 2012 in Culture

    Fashion America Women Gender "Fashion: What It Means and Why It Matters." A lecture given at JTS by Dr. Valerie Steele, director and chief curator of the Museum of the Fashion Institute of Technology. Pa ...

    Anonymous (not verified) - October 5, 2012

  4. From Jewess Jeans to Juicy JAPs: Clothing and Jewish Stereotypes

    Video by JTS on March 11, 2012 in Culture

    Fashion Women Gender Stereotypes "From Jewess Jeans to Juicy JAPs: Clothing and Jewish Stereotype" A lecture given Dr. Shuly Rubin Schwartz of JTS as part of the What to Wear event held at JTS on March 11 ...

    Anonymous (not verified) - October 5, 2012

  5. Torah as Water

    Commentary by Rabbi Charlie Schwartz on November 26, 2011 in Culture

    Genesis Rabbah 66:1 ...

    ccnmtl - September 27, 2012

  6. Updating Our Mindset

    Commentary by Rabbi Marc Wolf on January 9, 2010 in Culture

    The conclusion of Genesis and the beginning of the book of Exodus coincide this year with not only the end of a secular year, but the winding down of a decade. Of all its nicknames shopped around during the last days of December (the Ohs, Noughtie ...

    ccnmtl - October 10, 2012

  7. When Humanity Creates with God

    Commentary by Dr. Vivian Mann on February 28, 2009 in Culture

    Parashat T'rumah records God's commission to Moses to build the Tabernacle as the spiritual center of the Jewish people, the place where God would dwell among them (Exod. 25:8). Set in the center of the Israelite camp, viewed from the ...

    chschwartz - December 13, 2012

  8. Opera's interpretation of Moses

    Commentary by Rabbi Lewis Warshauer on January 17, 2004 in Culture

    The Bible came to Broadway years ago. The hit musical Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dream Coat presented a rollicking and hummable version of the Joseph story with a happy ending. Musical theater has not, however, figured out a way of fea ...

    ccnmtl - October 10, 2012

  9. Stranger in a Foreign Land

    Commentary by Dr. Ismar Schorsch on December 28, 2002 in Culture

    Moses names his first born son Gershom, still a common Hebrew name. The child is born to him and his wife Zipporah in the land of Midian, to which he fled after he murdered an Egyptian taskmaster. We do not hear of Gershom again in the epic, yet h ...

    ccnmtl - October 10, 2012

  10. Legacy and Jewish Identity

    Commentary by Rabbi Matthew Berkowitz on December 28, 2002 in Culture

    What is the greatest legacy we can leave to our children and grandchildren? Our parashah this past week, Parashat Va-y'hi and this week's parashah , Shemot , give us the opportunity to reflect on this essential question. La ...

    ccnmtl - October 10, 2012

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