What鈥檚 Next? New Ways of Engaging Jewish Sources

What鈥檚 Next? New Ways of Engaging Jewish Sources
Winter 2024 Learning Series

Mondays, February 3鈥揗arch 31, 2025* 
1:00鈥2:00 p.m. ET  

91快播 is well-known as a hub of innovative scholarship and a center of academic Jewish Studies. Recently, 91快播 has launched programs in Biblical Hebrew, Pastoral Care, and Teen Learning, offering accessible entryways into the Jewish textual tradition. Explore how 91快播 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: Jewish 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 91快播鈥檚 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 Jewish Languages, Senior Lecturer, Hebrew Language 

March 3

鈥淵outh Shall See Visions鈥: Engaging the Next Generation of 91快播 Learners and Doers 

With Dr. Phil Keisman, Director of Teen Education, 91快播, and Rabbi Stephanie Ruskay, Associate Dean, The Rabbinical School, Executive Director, The 91快播 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 Jewish Life and the Bronfman鈥疌enter, 92NY

March 17

From Online Auction to 91快播 Special Collections: How Two Historic Bibles Were Reunited in the 91快播 Library

With Dr. David Zev Moster, Director of the Biblical Hebrew Program, 91快播

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

91快播 MFA in Writing: Creating Community for Jewish Writers

Speaker to be announced

NoteEach 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.