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Both/And: 250 Years of Conservative Judaism in 80 Minutes, with Chancellor Arnold M. Eisen.
In an adaptation of his semester-long class for JTS students, Chancellor Arnie Eisen teaches us how Conservative Judaism became what it is today.

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Introducing The Evolution of Torah: a history of rabbinic literature from 2019-11-27T22:19:17

Episode 1: Who Were the Rabbis?

What led to the emergence of the group of scholars and teachers we call the Rabbis? What motivated them and what did they value? The Rabbis looked to thei...

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Introducing What Now? A JTS Podcast from 2019-06-02T14:25:09

In 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 ...

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8: Looking to the future from 2018-10-26T11:00:56

Neil 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, rathe...

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7: Hearing women’s voices and moving “from path to pathlessness” from 2018-10-19T11:00:12

Jewish feminism has been a major influence on Conservative Judaism since the 1970s. Judith Hauptman, professor emerita at JTS, has brought her deep knowledge of rabbinic literature to developing ne...

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6: Finding God through the “leap of action” from 2018-10-12T11:00:22

Both Mordecai Kaplan, the rationalist, and Abraham Joshua Heschel, the mystic, believed that Judaism compels us to make the world a better place. Kaplan was committed to the ethical practice adopte...

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5: American Judaism in the mid-20th Century from 2018-10-05T11:00:03

In identifying the aspects of Judaism that he considered compelling for modern American Jews, Mordecai Kaplan focused on the human part of Judaism: community and folkways, rather than commandments ...

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4: A Judaism OF the people from 2018-09-28T11:00:06

If 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, acro...

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3: A Judaism BY the people from 2018-09-21T11:00:05

Once Zacharias Frankel and other historically-minded scholars had affirmed that Judaism has always been changing, a question presented itself: How does Judaism change? Frankel and Solomon Schechter...

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2: History and halakhah from 2018-09-13T14:16:46

Moses Mendelssohn had already acknowledged that Jews in the modern era can make choices about how to practice and believe in Judaism, or whether to keep it at all. A range of choices then emerged i...

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1: Encountering Enlightenment from 2018-08-30T20:58:51

Our story begins with the pre-history of modern Jewish philosophy and the radical writings of Benedict Spinoza, who considered the Enlightenment’s challenges to Judaism, and found Judaism wanting. ...

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