7th Day of Light: JTS Giving Day
Thursday, December 17, 2020 • 2 Tevet 5781
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We're GIVING YOU outstanding Jewish learning all day long. And we hope YOU'LL GIVE to JTS to support our mission: creating the best Jewish leaders for the Jewish future.
On this day you will have five opportunities to learn new insights about Hanukkah with JTS’s world renowned professors. You can come to as many sessions as you’d like. Zoom links for each session will be emailed to you throughout the day.
10:00 AM Rabbi Matthew Berkowitz
On the Origin of the Menorah: Text, Art, and History
12:00 PM Rabbi Naomi Kalish
Praying for a Miracle: What Hanukkah Teaches Us About Hope During Difficult Times
2:00 PM Rabbi Jan Uhrbach
Light Up or Count Down? What a Debate About Hanukkah Candles Reveals
4:00 PM Dr. David Kraemer
Exclusive Preview of the New JTS Library and its Worls Renowned Collection
6:30 PM Rabbi Gordon Tucker
When Sages' Words are Quoted, Their Lips Continue to Move (Talmud Yevamot 97a)
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