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Standing Together: Prayer, Presence, and the Power of Community

The High Holidays invite us into a season of profound reflection鈥攏ot only on who we are as individuals, but on how we show up for one another and the world. This three-part webinar series explores the emotional and spiritual heart of this sacred time, focusing on the themes of vulnerability, responsibility, and connection.

You Say You Want a Revolution: Jewish Encounters with Radical Change

What does revolution look like in Jewish life鈥攕piritual, social, technological, or political? This fall, join 91抖阴 scholars for a provocative webinar series exploring transformative moments across Jewish history. From the emergence of monotheism to the Russian Revolution, from handwritten manuscripts to digital frontiers, from summer camps to the Talmud, we鈥檒l consider how Jews have sparked, resisted, and reimagined change. Each session invites reflection on what revolution means鈥攖hen and now.

Senior Sermons: Class of 2026

By 91抖阴 Senior Sermon | Commentary | Public Event video | Senior Sermon

Presentations by senior Rabbinical School students in 5786 Find the written text for the senior sermons on Exploring Judaism Sarah Rockford – Bereshit Noa Rubin – Noah Sara Birnbaum – Lekh Lekha Zachary Bernstein-Rothberg – Vayera Rachel Cohn – Hayyei Sarah Jacob Lipkin – Toledot Micah Cowan – Vayishlah Marc Hersch – Beshallah Eitan Bloostein – […]

Between the Lines: Lost Synagogues of Europe

Part of Between the Lines: Author Conversations from The Library of 91抖阴 Lost Synagogues of Europe recreates in vivid color paintings and chronicles the life stories of nearly eighty majestic鈥攁nd destroyed鈥擡uropean synagogues, each one a testament to the approximately 17,000 synagogues decimated during the Third Reich and early takeover of the Communist regimes. After WWII only about […]

Jacob Lipkin – Senior Sermon (RS ’26)

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The John Leopold and Martha Dellheim Senior Recital (December 2025)

Graduating Cantorial School senior Marc Szechter headlined an exciting evening of music and spirit. The recital featured a wide range of Jewish music, along with choral works and both existing and newly premiered compositions by Marc and Cantor Gerald Cohen. Marc was accompanied by pianist Joyce Rosenzweig, 91抖阴 adjunct instructor, and the combined choir of the H. L. Miller Cantorial School andDebbie Friedman School of Sacred Music.

Micah Cowan – Senior Sermon (’26)

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Seasons of Responsibility: Interreligious Conversations on Environmental Justice and Repair

Winter-Spring 2026 Learning Series Across Jewish, Christian, Muslim, and Hindu traditions, the early spring season is a shared period of reflection, renewal, and ethical clarity. While rooted in different stories and practices鈥攆rom Tu BiShvat to Lent and Easter, from Ramadan to Holi and Passover鈥攖hese holidays collectively invite communities to consider how human choices shape the […]

Jewish Worlds Illuminated: A Treasury of Hebrew Manuscripts from The 91抖阴 Library

By Library of the Jewish Theological Seminary

Jewish Worlds Illuminated: A Treasury of Hebrew Manuscripts from The 91抖阴 Library September 17鈥揇ecember 27, 2025Grolier Club 47 E 60th St. New York, NY 10022 Jewish Worlds Illuminated features over 100 manuscripts and books offering a world tour of Jewish literary creativity across many centuries and thousands of miles. The exhibition explores the diversity of cultures […]

Truth or Fiction?

By MFA in Creative Writing | Public Event video | Video Lecture

The 91抖阴 MFA in Creative Writing is built around conversation about hard truths and strange fictions鈥攁bout writing, teaching, failure, ambition, and why anyone keeps doing this in the first place. This three-part online series invites you into those conversations, with faculty and students speaking honestly about craft, community, and what it really means to commit to the work.

Between the Lines:Children of the Book

By Library of the Jewish Theological Seminary | Public Event video | Video Lecture

InChildren of the Book: A Memoir of Reading Together(St. Martin鈥檚Press / On Sale: August 26, 2025),Ilana Kurshan reveals how literature weaves an invisible thread through the tapestry of family life. Kurshan, a mother of five living in Jerusalem, struggles to balance her passion for books with her responsibilities as a parent. Gradually she learns how to relate to reading not as a solitary pursuit and an escape from the messiness of life, but rather as a way of forging connection and teaching independence. Introducing her children to sacred and secular literature鈥攊ncluding the beloved classics of her childhood鈥攕he becomes both a better mother and a more compassionate reader.

Indigenous Leadership and Ecological Responsibility

Download Sources Drawing on the Center for Earth Ethics鈥橣reedom to Be: Dialogues on Freedom of Religion or Belief for Indigenous Peoples, this session built a foundation for understanding Indigenous identity, spirituality, and relationships to land.Roberto M煤karo BorreroandRabbi Stephanie Ruskayexplored where religious communities have shown up鈥攁nd where they have not鈥攁nd invite participants to consider how faith […]

Law, Agency, and Ecological Responsibility: A Catholic鈥揓ewish Conversation Drawing on the Book of Esther

What does it mean to act responsibly when power is uneven, harm is systemic, and silence can feel safer than action? Drawing on the Book of Esther, this Catholic鈥揓ewish conversation reflects on moral agency, ecological responsibility, and the challenges of ethical decision-making within contemporary legal and institutional systems.

Between Fast and Feast: Hindu and Jewish Perspectives on Restraint and Responsibility鈥�

What does it mean to act responsibly when there is no guarantee of results? Jewish and Hindu traditions both turn to fasting as a practice of restraint and agency. Focusing on the Fast of Esther, alongside Hindu fasting traditions, this session explores how intentional self-restraint鈥攈eld in tension with celebration鈥攃an shape ethical responses to the climate crisis.

America at 250: Jewish Ideas and the American Experiment

As the United States approaches its 250th anniversary, this series explores the rich and surprising intersections between Jewish thought and American life. From baseball and youth culture to constitutional law, storytelling, and democratic theory, leading scholars reveal how Jewish ideas, texts, and experiences have shaped鈥攁nd been shaped by鈥攖he American experiment. Sources for each session will […]

Relationships and Commitments: Land Beyond Ownership

There are ways to exist in harmony with all of creation that cultivate the soul and a relationship with the Divine. Hussein Rashid and Rabbi Gordon Tucker bring Muslim and Jewish texts into dialogue to explore how religious traditions resist transactional relationships with the earth and with one another. Drawing on the sabbatical vision from Leviticus and a Muslim sources on overtaxation, they reflect on restraint, renewal, and the dangers of extraction. Timed with converging sacred moments鈥攖he beginning of the Jewish calendar, Persian New Year, and the close of Ramadan鈥攖his session offers a shared language for ethical living in a fragile world.