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Jewish Theological Seminary of America

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Profiles

  • Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel (1907 - 1972)
    "Moral Grandeur and Spiritual Audacity Essays by Abraham Joshua Heschel" , Essay by Susannah Heschel* Abraham Joshua Heschel PBS Interview / Video Abraham Joshua Heschel (January 11, 1907 – December 23...
  • Sylvia Heschel (1913 - 2007)
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  • R' Josiah (Yeshayahu) Derby (Debarmdiker) (1913 - 2002)
    --U.S., Social Security Applications and Claims Index, 1936-2007 (per AncestryLibrary) has: Josiah Derby -- SSN -- ... -- Birth Date: 25 Dec 1913 -- Birth Place: Berditchev, Soviet Union -- Death Date:...
  • Professor Louis I. (Levi Isaac) Ginzberg (1873 - 1953)
    Rabbi. Louis Ginzberg was a Talmudist and leading figure in the Conservative Movement of Judaism of the twentieth century. Ginzberg was born into a religious family whose piety and erudition was well k...
  • Rabbi Jill Jacobs
    Jacobs (born 1975) is the Executive Director of T'ruah: The Rabbinic Call for Human Rights, formerly Rabbis for Human Rights-North America. She is a Conservative rabbi and the author of Where Justice D...

Wikipedia

The Jewish Theological Seminary (JTS) is located in New York. It is one of the academic and spiritual centers of Conservative Judaism, and a major center for academic scholarship in Jewish studies.

JTS operates five schools: Albert A. List College of Jewish Studies (which is affiliated with Columbia University and offers joint/double bachelor's degree programs with both Columbia and Barnard College); Gershon Kekst Graduate School; the William Davidson Graduate School of Jewish Education; the H. L. Miller Cantorial School and College of Jewish Music; and The Rabbinical School. It also operates a number of research and training institutes.

Notable Alumni