Dr. Moshe Halbertal and Chancellor Eisen Discuss: “Gaza, the IDF

Dr. Moshe Halbertal and Chancellor
Eisen Discuss: “Gaza, the IDF Code of
Ethics, and the Morality of War”—
November 20
In this summer’s war in Gaza, Israel faced
enormously complicated and vexing ethical
challenges. Join Dr. Moshe Halbertal, Gruss
Professor of Law at New York University School of
Law and Professor of Jewish Thought and
Philosophy at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem,
and JTS Chancellor Arnold M. Eisen as they
discuss the moral issues that Israel faces in its war
on terrorism.
Tickets are $10, and the event is free for students
with valid ID. RSVP at www.jtsa.edu/halbertal.
November 11, 2014 /
18 Heshvan 5775
In This Issue
Dr. Moshe Halbertal and Chancellor
Eisen Discuss: “Gaza, the IDF Code
of Ethics, and the Morality of War”—
November 20
Roz Chast, New Yorker Cartoonist
and author, at JTS December 11
JTS Cosponsors Global Day of
Jewish Learning, November 16
The Bus on Jaffa Road—Book Talk
and Beit Midrash Rededication,
November 19
Screening of the Yiddish Film “Green
Fields,” November 24
Voice of a People: Then, Now,
Always—A John Leopold and Martha
Dellheim Concert, December 7
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Roz Chast, New Yorker Cartoonist and
author, at JTS
December 11
Roz Chast, acclaimed New Yorker
cartoonist and author, will present an
illustrated discussion of her recent bestselling book Can’t We Talk About
Something More Pleasant? at the Jack
and Lewis Rudin Lecture at JTS on
December 11, 7:30 p.m.
A memoir about her relationship with
her aging parents, the work is a 2014
National Book Award Nonfiction
Finalist. The lecture will be followed by
a conversation between Ms. Chast and
Dr. David Kraemer, Joseph J. and
Dora Abbell Librarian and professor of
JTS Partners to Present Hava
Tequila Nights
JTS Cosponsors Community Beit
Midrash
JTS Presents Benjamin Botwinick
Award to Dr. Seymour Epstein
What’s Happening at JTS and in Your
Community
Making News: In Print and Online
JTS on the Move: Find Us Wherever
You Are
Admissions and Recruitment
Highlights
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JTS Cosponsors Global Day of Jewish
Learning, November 16
This year, JTS is cosponsoring Global Day of Jewish Learning (November
16) at the Drisha Institute for Jewish Education in Manhattan. JTS’s Dr.
Amy Kalmanofsky, associate professor of Bible, will teach a session at
10:00 a.m. titled The Great Woman Behind the Man of God: A Fresh
Reading of the Story of the Shunamite and Elisha. Rabbi Judith
Hauptman, E. Billi Ivry Professor of Talmud and Rabbinic Culture, will lead
a class at noon on Examination of a Talmudic Principle: The Moral
Obligation to Speak Out. This international initiative’s programming also
includes presentations by several JTS alums.
Hosted by the Drisha Institute and Mechon Hadar, this year’s theme will
focus on “Heroes, Villains, Saints, and Fools: The People in the Book.” The
event is free of charge, and no RSVP is required.
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The Bus on Jaffa Road—Book Talk and
JTS Beit Midrash Rededication,
November 19
The Bus on Jaffa Road explores the 1996
incident that took the lives of JTS student
Matthew Eisenfeld (z”l) and his fiancée,
Sara Duker (z”l), and the couple’s legacy. A
discussion with writer Mike Kelly, awardwinning columnist at the (Bergen) Record and
author of Color Lines, will be held in The JTS
Library at 7:30 p.m. Rabbi Daniel Nevins,
Pearl Resnick Dean of the Rabbinical School
and dean of the Division of Religious
Leadership, will serve as moderator.
A rededication of JTS's Matthew Eisenfeld
(z”l) and Sara Duker (z”l) Beit Midrash will
be held at 7:00 p.m.
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educating the best and
brightest students.
To register, please email Hector Guzman at [email protected].
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Screening of the Yiddish Film “Green
Fields,” November 24
Join us at The JTS Library on November 24 at 6:30 p.m. for a screening of
Green Fields (Grine Felder, 1937). The evening will feature an introduction
and commentary by Dr. Nahma Sandrow, a scholar, translator, and
librettist of Yiddish plays who authored Vagabond Stars: A World History of
Yiddish Theater.
One of the most critically acclaimed and beloved of American Yiddish
talkies, Green Fields tells the story of an orphan who leaves his yeshiva to
search for “true Jews.” Filmed in New Jersey, the movie will be shown in
Yiddish with new English subtitles.
Admission is free, but reservations are required. RSVP to Rena Borow at
[email protected] or call (212) 678-8970.
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Voice of a People: Then, Now,
Always—A John Leopold and Martha
Dellheim Concert, December 7
H. L. Miller Cantorial School and College of Jewish Music of JTS and B’nai
Torah Congregation present Voice of a People: Then, Now, Always—A
John Leopold and Martha Dellheim Concert at B’nai Torah Congregation in
Boca Raton, Florida on December 7, at 7:00 p.m.
Enjoy performances by Hazzan Alberto Mizrahi of Ansche Emet
Synagogue in Chicago, Hazzan Benjamin Tisser of B’nai Torah
Congregation in Boca Raton, and Cantor Nancy Abramson, director of the
H. L. Miller Cantorial School. The program introduces JTS cantorial students
Rachel Brook (CS ’16), Sarah Levine (CS ’17), and Isaac Yager (CS ’17),
and features accompanist Alan Mason, Grammy Award-winning pianist
Howard Levy, and internationally renowned musician Joe Zeytoonian.
The program is free and open to the community. Please call (561) 3928566 for more information or visit www.bnai-torah.org.
This program is cosponsored by the John Leopold and Martha Dellheim
Endowment Fund and the H. L. Miller Cantorial School. John Dellheim (z"l)
was a Holocaust survivor who became a pioneer computer programmer at
IBM. He deeply loved Judaism and Jewish music, and endowed the John
Leopold and Martha Dellheim Senior Recitals in order to bring Western
cantorial music to synagogues around the United States via the graduating
cantors of the H. L. Miller Cantorial School, thereby perpetuating the
performance and transmission of Jewish sacred music to future
generations.
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JTS Partners to Present Hava Tequila
Nights
JTS is proud to partner with the National Yiddish Theatre - Folksbiene to
present Hava Tequila Nights, a reinvention of borscht belt floor shows and
Yiddish cabarets for the 21st century. Yiddish maven Shane Baker emcees,
with performances in Yiddish, Hebrew, Russian, and English. The next
show is December 10, 9:00 p.m., at Stage 72 at the Triad in New York City.
Hava Tequila Nights is sponsored by Joe Cooper in honor of Gittel Cooper
(z”l), and presented in partnership with Congress for Jewish Culture, Taglit
Birthright Alumni, Young Friends of The Museum of Jewish Heritage: A
Living Memorial to the Holocaust, Ezra USA, The Jewish Theological
Seminary, and JDC Entwine. Use discount code YF18 to save $10 per
ticket.
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JTS Cosponsors Community Beit
Midrash
JTS is pleased once again to cosponsor a Community Beit Midrash of open
Torah study with students from the Drisha Institute for Jewish Education,
Hebrew Union College, Mechon Hadar, Pardes Institute of Jewish Studies,
Yeshivat Chovevei Torah Rabbinical School, and Yeshivat Maharat.
This semester’s sessions are free and will be held on Tuesdays from
October 28 through December 16. Open learning is from 7:00 to 9:00 p.m.,
with a shiur (lesson in Torah) by one of the sponsor’s educators from 8:15 to
9:00 p.m. Locations alternate between Mechon Hadar and the Matthew
Eisenfeld (z”l) and Sara Duker (z”l) Beit Midrash at JTS. Session locations
can be found here.
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JTS Presents Benjamin Botwinick
Award to Dr. Seymour Epstein
JTS has presented the biennial Benjamin Botwinick Award to Jewish
educator Dr. Seymour Epstein, a lifelong educator whose wide-ranging
work in Jewish education in Canada, Morocco, Western Europe, and the
former Soviet Union embodies the qualities so valued by Benjamin
Botwinick (z"l). Dr. Epstein has taught at the United Synagogue Day
School in Toronto and McGill and York universities, and served as a director
at the Jewish Teacher Training Program of Montreal, Canadian Ramah,
American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, and Toronto’s Board of
Jewish Education at UJA.
The Benjamin Botwinick Award, first presented in 2010 thanks to the
generosity of the Botwinick-Wolfensohn Foundation, honors leadership and
commitment to furthering interdenominational understanding and
cooperation within Judaism. The vision outlined in the award was central to
the life of Benjamin Botwinick (z”l), father of Elaine Wolfensohn, who
serves on the advisory board of The Davidson School of JTS.
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What’s Happening at JTS and in Your
Community
TODAY, NOVEMBER 11: Navona Records released a CD of new
compositions, Sea of Reeds, by H. L. Miller Cantorial School and College of
Jewish Music’s Dr. Gerald Cohen, assistant professor of Music. The
release will be celebrated this evening at 7:00 p.m. with a concert at Le
Poisson Rouge in New York City.
Dr. Benjamin Sommer will deliver the Pollack Lecture at Congregation
L’Dor V’Dor in Little Neck, New York, on “Tradition and Change in Biblical
Law” on November 12 and 19 from 7:30 to 9:30 p.m. In addition, Adath
Israel, in partnership with the Hereld Institute for Jewish Studies of JTS, will
present the inaugural Nathan Olshin Scholar in Residence Program
in Middletown, New York. Dr. Sommer will be featured on November 16 at
3:00 p.m., discussing “The Beginning and End of the World: Religion,
Philosphy, Science.”
Marc Gary, executive vice chancellor and chief operating officer of JTS, is
the featured speaker at Georgetown University’s “What Matters . . . and
Why? A Conversation About the Intersection of Values and Vocation in the
Life of a Lawyer” in Washington DC on November 13 at noon.
Dr. Jonathan Milgram, assistant professor of Talmud and Rabbinics at
JTS, will be scholar-in-residence at Moriah Congregation in Deerfield,
Illinois for Shabbat on November 14–15. He will be speaking on “Jesus in
the Talmud” and “From Mishnah to Microsoft.”
A case study on blended learning featuring the MaToK Bible Curriculum
will be presented by Rachel Buckman of the Atlanta Jewish Academy at
EdJEWCon on November 16 in Cleveland, Ohio. MaToK is jointly
sponsored by the William Davidson Graduate School of Education of JTS
and the Schechter Day School Network.
Dr. Alex Sinclair, director of programs in Israel education and adjunct
assistant professor in Jewish Education at JTS, will be speaking on “Loving
the Real Israel” on December 9 at Hebrew College in Newton Center,
Massachusetts.
Rabbi Lilly Kaufman, Torah Fund director, is one of four Conservative
rabbis featured in God, Faith, and Identity from the Ashes: Reflections of
Children and Grandchildren of Holocaust Survivors. A reception in honor of
the publication will be held at Hebrew Union College – Jewish Institute of
Religion on December 11.
Mark Young represented JTS and The Davidson School at the recent
Jewish Leadership: What's Next Conference at UJA-Federation of New
York. Mark is the program coordinator of The Davidson School’s
Experiential Learning Initiative, and directs its Jewish Experiential
Leadership Institute (JELI), a professional development program for
midlevel professionals at Jewish Community Centers across North America.
Lyndall Miller, director of the Jewish Early Childhood Education Leadership
Initiative (JECELI), Denise Moyes-Schnur, JECELI mentor coordinator,
and JECELI Cohort 1 alums Robin Pappas and Kim Subrin presented at
the National Jewish Early Childhood Network (NJECN) pre-conference held
in conjuunction with the National Association for the Education of Young
Children (NAEYC) conference this November. The NJECN pre-conference
was co-chaired by another JECELI Cohort 1 alum, Alyse Eisenberg.
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Making News: In Print and Online
Chancellor Arnold Eisen, recently returned from a trip to Poland, writes
about the opening of Polin: The Museum of the History of Polish Jews in
“Betting on Hope” on his blog On My Mind: Arnie Eisen.
JTS alum Jake Goodman’s (DS ’07) adaptation of “Kaddish for an Unborn
Child” takes center stage in “Actor Brings 'Kaddish' to Life in One-Man Play”
in the Houston Chronicle. • West Hartford News reports that JTS alum
Alyssa Shelasky (LC ’99) will speak on her recent book, “Apron Anxiety,”
in West Hartford, Connecticut, this month in “Beth El Temple Women's
Network Presents Author of ‘Apron Anxiety.’”
Brooklyn Daily Eagle announces that JTS alum Hazzan Leon Lissek (CS
’70) will receive the Jewish Faculty and Staff Association Distinguished
Lifetime Achievement Award as “City Tech Marks 76th Anniversary of
Kristallnacht.” • H. L. Miller Cantorial School Assistant Professor of Music
Dr. Gerald Cohen is quoted in the Jewish Week’s “County Cantors Lifting
Their Voices” about his original composition that will be featured in a concert
in New Rochelle, New York.
An interview with Davidson School Associate Professor of Jewish Education
Dr. Jeffrey Kress appears in Edutopia in “Social-Emotional Learning and
Spirituality.”
The Jewish Daily Forward consults JTS Professor of Jewish History Dr.
David Fishman for “Ukraine’s Election Results Are Good for the Jews—but
What Comes Next?” • JTS alum Rachel Pasternak’s (GS ’98) recent
documentary is spotlighted in “Tracing the Epic Life of an Iconic Rabbi” in
Rutgers Today.
Catholic Sun’s “Holocaust Survivor to Lecture on St. John Paul II” features
alum Dr. Harold Kasimow’s (SC ’61) recent lecture in Bismarck, North
Dakota. • The Cleveland Jewish News announces Rabbi Shalom Plotkin’s
(RS ’98) new position in Lorain, Ohio, in “Plotkin Named Rabbi of Agudath
B’nai Israel.”
JTS visiting scholar Dr. Yasin Meral is interviewed in Jewish Week’s
“Muslim Bridge Builder Takes Post at JTS.” • UJA-Federation highlights
JTS’s contributions to Hurricane Sandy recovery efforts, quoting ACPE
Supervisor Allison Kestenbaum in “Two Years after Sandy, Spiritual and
Mental Health Needs Linger.”
JTS alum Robert Alter (SC ’57), who recently presented a lecture at the
University of Charleston in West Virginia, is profiled in the Charleston
Gazette’s “Bible Scholar Is Annual Humanities Council Speaker.” • “Original
Instructions,” JTS alum Rabbi Joseph Prouser’s (SC ’83, RS ’88)
ambitious project that aims to translate the book of Genesis without using
the letter e, appears in the Jewish Standard.
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