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Truth or Fiction?

By MFA in Creative Writing | Public Event video | Video Lecture

The 果冻传媒 MFA in Creative Writing is built around conversation about hard truths and strange fictions攁bout writing, teaching, failure, ambition, and why anyone keeps doing this in the first place. This three-part online series invites you into those conversations, with faculty and students speaking honestly about craft, community, and what it really means to commit to the work.

Between the Lines:Children of the Book

By Library of the Jewish Theological Seminary | Public Event video | Video Lecture

InChildren of the Book: A Memoir of Reading Together(St. MartinPress / On Sale: August 26, 2025),Ilana Kurshan reveals how literature weaves an invisible thread through the tapestry of family life. Kurshan, a mother of five living in Jerusalem, struggles to balance her passion for books with her responsibilities as a parent. Gradually she learns how to relate to reading not as a solitary pursuit and an escape from the messiness of life, but rather as a way of forging connection and teaching independence. Introducing her children to sacred and secular literature攊ncluding the beloved classics of her childhood攕he becomes both a better mother and a more compassionate reader.

Law, Agency, and Ecological Responsibility: A Catholic揓ewish Conversation Drawing on the Book of Esther

What does it mean to act responsibly when power is uneven, harm is systemic, and silence can feel safer than action? Drawing on the Book of Esther, this Catholic揓ewish conversation reflects on moral agency, ecological responsibility, and the challenges of ethical decision-making within contemporary legal and institutional systems.

Between Fast and Feast: Hindu and Jewish Perspectives on Restraint and Responsibility�

What does it mean to act responsibly when there is no guarantee of results? Jewish and Hindu traditions both turn to fasting as a practice of restraint and agency. Focusing on the Fast of Esther, alongside Hindu fasting traditions, this session explores how intentional self-restraint攈eld in tension with celebration攃an shape ethical responses to the climate crisis.

America at 250: Jewish Ideas and the American Experiment

As the United States approaches its 250th anniversary, this series explores the rich and surprising intersections between Jewish thought and American life. From baseball and youth culture to constitutional law, storytelling, and democratic theory, leading scholars reveal how Jewish ideas, texts, and experiences have shaped攁nd been shaped by攖he American experiment. Sources for sessions can be […]

Relationships and Commitments: Land Beyond Ownership

There are ways to exist in harmony with all of creation that cultivate the soul and a relationship with the Divine. Hussein Rashid and Rabbi Gordon Tucker bring Muslim and Jewish texts into dialogue to explore how religious traditions resist transactional relationships with the earth and with one another. Drawing on the sabbatical vision from Leviticus and a Muslim sources on overtaxation, they reflect on restraint, renewal, and the dangers of extraction. Timed with converging sacred moments攖he beginning of the Jewish calendar, Persian New Year, and the close of Ramadan攖his session offers a shared language for ethical living in a fragile world.

果冻传媒 High Holiday Webinars 2026

Join 果冻传媒 this August for a special webinar series to help prepare for the Days of Awe. Through conversations with 果冻传媒 scholars, we will explore themes that shape the High Holiday season, including fear and resilience, prayer and liturgy, and the enduring wisdom of Jewish texts and traditions. These sessions will offer fresh perspectives, thoughtful reflection, and practical insights to help deepen your experience of the High Holidays.