JTS Library Exhibit: “To Build a New Home: Celebrating the Jewish Wedding"

3080 Broadway,New York NY 10027

11 July, 2022

Description

The Jewish Theological Seminary (JTS), one of the world's preeminent centers of Jewish higher education in NYC’s Morningside Heights, is welcoming the public to its first ever exhibition at its recently redesigned library. “To Build a New Home: Celebrating the Jewish Wedding” will introduce visitors to Jewish marriages from Talmudic times to the present, highlighting recent innovations in wedding rituals as Jewish sensibilities have developed in the context of the world at large. The event will feature visual materials like the ketubbah, and other rare Judaic artifacts, while also serving as a platform for the launch of year round exhibitions in the new JTS library gallery space. The JTS recently re-opened its reimagined facility, part of a vision to create a new state-of-the-art campus, complete with a new auditorium, community atrium, and library, to feature world-class collections of rare Judaica. The exhibition will be open to the public during regular library hours until August 14, 2022. When: Monday to Thursday, 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Where: 3080 Broadway, New York, NY 10027 COVID PROTOCOL: All visitors are required to show proof-of-vaccination against Covid-19 and to remain properly masked during their visit to the JTS campus. About The Jewish Theological Seminary: JTS is a preeminent institution of Jewish higher education, training thoughtful, innovative leaders—rabbis, cantors, educators, lay leaders, and scholars—who strengthen our communities with a vision of Judaism that is deeply grounded in the Jewish past and thoroughly engaged with contemporary society. JTS also provides high-caliber, lifelong learning and professional development to our alumni, adult learners, and Jewish communities throughout North America. Through its Library, JTS preserves and makes accessible to students and scholars throughout the world the greatest collection of Judaica in the Western Hemisphere.