The Confusion of Revelation: Yitro 5785

The JTS Commentary for Tetzavveh / Shabbat Zakhor by Rabbi Gordon Tucker, Vice Chancellor for Religious Life and Engagement, JTSMusic provided by JJReinhold / Pond5

The JTS Commentary for Terumah by Rabbi Lilly Kaufman (RS ’01, CS ’98)This commentary was originally broadcast in 2020.Music provided by JJReinhold / Pond5

The JTS Commentary for Mishpatim by Rabbi Stephanie Ruskay, Associate Dean of the Rabbinical School and Executive Director of the Hendel Center for Ethics and Justice, JTSMusic provided by JJReinhold / Pond5

The JTS Commentary for Yitro by Dr. Barry Holtz, Theodore and Florence Baumritter Professor of Jewish Education, JTS This episode was originally broadcast in 2019.Music provided by JJReinhold / Pond5

The JTS Commentary for Beshallah by Dr. Phil Keisman, Director of Teen Education, JTSMusic provided by JJReinhold / Pond5

The JTS Commentary for Bo by Rebecca Galin, Student, The Rabbinical School of JTSMusic provided by JJReinhold / Pond5

The JTS Commentary for Va'era by Claire Davidson Bruder, Student, The Rabbinical School of JTS, and Sherouk Ahmed, Student, Bayan Islamic Graduate School at Chicago Theological SeminaryIn the first week of 2025, the Washington Theological Consortium hosted a weeklong interfaith dialogue program at the United Lutheran Seminary in Philadelphia. Third-year JTS rabbinical student and Milstein Center for Interreligious Dialogue program manager Claire Davidson Bruder participated in this program, alongside other Jewish, Christian, and Muslim seminary students. The following d’var Torah is a collaboration between Claire and Sherouk Ahmed, a chaplaincy student at Bayan, an Islamic graduate school in partnership with the Chicago Theological Seminary.Music provided by JJReinhold / Pond5

The JTS Commentary for Shemot by Rabbi Ariella Rosen (RS), Interim Lead Rabbi, Congregation B’nai Israel (Northampton, MA) Music provided by JJReinhold / Pond5

The JTS Commentary for Vayehi by Benjamin D. Sommer, Professor of Bible and Ancient Semitic Languages, JTSMusic provided by JJReinhold / Pond5

The JTS Commentary for Vayiggash by Rabbi Eliezer Diamond, Rabbi Judah Nadich Professor of Talmud and Rabbinics, jTSMusic provided by JJReinhold / Pond5