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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
Commemoration of the First Yahrzeit of Rabbi David Halivni ZTZ”L VIDEOS

Commemoration of the First Yahrzeit of Rabbi David Halivni ZTZ”L

by Rabbi Ronald Price, Hakham Isaac Sassoon, Rabbi David Weiss Halivni Z"L and Rabbi Ephraim Halivni
June 25, 2023

Categories: Modern Judaism, Remembering Rabbi Halivni Z"L, Torah/Talmud, UTJ Events
The Rambam’s Remarkable Correspondence with the Scholars of Lunel with Rabbi Charles Sheer VIDEOS

The Rambam’s Remarkable Correspondence with the Scholars of Lunel with Rabbi Charles Sheer

by Recommended by UTJ
February 12, 2023

Categories: Philosophy, UTJ Events
Al HaNissim — Talmudic or Maccabean? with Prof. Rabbi Reuven Kimelman VIDEOS

Al HaNissim — Talmudic or Maccabean? with Prof. Rabbi Reuven Kimelman

by Professor Reuven Kimelman
December 22, 2022

Categories: Chanukah, Holidays, Tefillah, UTJ Events
The Rhetoric of Jewish Liturgy with R. Prof. Reuven Kimelman – Part 2: Kaddish VIDEOS

The Rhetoric of Jewish Liturgy with R. Prof. Reuven Kimelman – Part 2: Kaddish

by Professor Reuven Kimelman
November 22, 2022

Categories: Tefillah, UTJ Events
The Etymology of Jewish Names with Rabbi Scott Kalmikoff VIDEOS

The Etymology of Jewish Names with Rabbi Scott Kalmikoff

by Recommended by UTJ
November 20, 2022

Categories: Modern Judaism, UTJ Events
The Rhetoric of Jewish Liturgy with R. Prof. Reuven Kimelman – Part 1: Yisthabach VIDEOS

The Rhetoric of Jewish Liturgy with R. Prof. Reuven Kimelman – Part 1: Yisthabach

by Professor Reuven Kimelman
November 13, 2022

Categories: Tefillah, UTJ Events
Lessons from Kohelet with Rabbi Moshe P. Weisblum VIDEOS

Lessons from Kohelet with Rabbi Moshe P. Weisblum

by Rabbi Moshe P. Weisblum
October 16, 2022

Categories: Holidays, Philosophy, Sukkot, Torah/Talmud, UTJ Events
Jewish Martyrdom in Avinu Malkenu with Rabbi Steven Saks VIDEOS

Jewish Martyrdom in Avinu Malkenu with Rabbi Steven Saks

by Rabbi Steven Saks
October 2, 2022

Categories: High Holidays, Holidays, UTJ Events

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