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What is the significance of the paradoxical nature of Eikhah? VIDEOS

What is the significance of the paradoxical nature of Eikhah?

by Professor Reuven Kimelman
August 11, 2024

Categories: Holidays, Tisha b'Av, Torah/Talmud, UTJ Events
Commemoration of the Second Yahrzeit of Rabbi David Halivni Z”L VIDEOS

Commemoration of the Second Yahrzeit of Rabbi David Halivni Z”L

by Rabbi David Novak, Rabbi Ephraim Halivni and Recommended by UTJ
July 16, 2024

Categories: Modern Judaism, Remembering Rabbi Halivni Z"L, Torah/Talmud, UTJ Events
How does the inexplicable poem for Shavuot, Akdamut, make sense of the first blessing of the Shema Liturgy? VIDEOS

How does the inexplicable poem for Shavuot, Akdamut, make sense of the first blessing of the Shema Liturgy?

by Professor Reuven Kimelman
June 23, 2024

Categories: Holidays, Purim, Shavuot, Torah/Talmud, UTJ Events
Why are the Books of Ruth and Esther So Much Alike? VIDEOS

Why are the Books of Ruth and Esther So Much Alike?

by Professor Reuven Kimelman
June 6, 2024

Categories: Holidays, Purim, Shavuot, Torah/Talmud, UTJ Events
The Taboo Against “Next Year in Jerusalem” in the American Haggadah with Professor Jonathan D. Sarna VIDEOS

The Taboo Against “Next Year in Jerusalem” in the American Haggadah with Professor Jonathan D. Sarna

by Recommended by UTJ
April 3, 2024

Categories: Holidays, Holidays, Jewish History, Modern Judaism, Passover, UTJ Events
Judaism and The Laws of War Part 2 of 2 VIDEOS

Judaism and The Laws of War Part 2 of 2

by Professor Reuven Kimelman
February 18, 2024

Categories: Halakhah, Israel, Modern Judaism, UTJ Events
Judaism and The Laws of War Part 1 of 2 VIDEOS

Judaism and The Laws of War Part 1 of 2

by Professor Reuven Kimelman
February 14, 2024

Categories: Halakhah, Israel, Modern Judaism, UTJ Events
What are the thematics and problematics of Ne’ilah? VIDEOS

What are the thematics and problematics of Ne’ilah?

by Professor Reuven Kimelman
September 13, 2023

Categories: High Holidays, Tefillah, UTJ Events
How Is Writing a Piyut Like Telling a Joke? VIDEOS

How Is Writing a Piyut Like Telling a Joke?

by Professor Reuven Kimelman
September 5, 2023

Categories: High Holidays, Holidays, Tefillah, UTJ Events
How does Unetaneh Tokef work as a midrashic poem? VIDEOS

How does Unetaneh Tokef work as a midrashic poem?

by Professor Reuven Kimelman
August 28, 2023

Categories: High Holidays, Tefillah, UTJ Events
What are the Political Implications of the Rosh Hashanah Amidah? VIDEOS

What are the Political Implications of the Rosh Hashanah Amidah?

by Professor Reuven Kimelman
August 17, 2023

Categories: High Holidays, Tefillah, UTJ Events
Some Rabbinic Concepts of Evil VIDEOS

Some Rabbinic Concepts of Evil

by Rabbi Wayne Allen
August 8, 2023

Categories: Philosophy, Torah/Talmud, UTJ Events

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