1: Encountering Enlightenment
1: Encountering Enlightenment
Our story begins with the pre-history of modern Jewish philosophy and the radical writings of Benedict Spinoza, who cons... Read more
30 Aug 2018
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2: History and halakhah
2: History and halakhah
Moses Mendelssohn had already acknowledged that Jews in the modern era can make choices about how to practice and believ... Read more
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6: Finding God through the “leap of action”
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7: Hearing women’s voices and moving “from path to pathlessness”
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Jewish feminism has been a major influence on Conservative Judaism since the 1970s. Judith Hauptman, professor emerita a... Read more
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8: Looking to the future
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Neil Gillman, professor of philosophy at JTS, made it his mission to encourage generations of JTS students, as well as c... Read more
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Introducing What Now? A JTS Podcast
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Introducing The Evolution of Torah: a history of rabbinic literature
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