Scholars and Research

As part of the JTS community—whether through teaching, studying, or even walking through the hallways—you know that you are in the company of great minds. These leading thinkers come to JTS to experience so many different facets of learning, from public lectures to the world-renowned collection of The Library.

We invite you to explore any and all of the various options JTS offers to broaden your understanding of what it means to be Jewish today.


The Louis Finkelstein Institute for Religious and Social Studies

Since 1938, the Louis Finkelstein Institute has maintained an innovative interfaith and intergroup relations program that emphasizes conversation between diverse communities.

Today, the Louis Finkelstein Institute offers a wealth of public lectures each year that are open to the public.

Saul Lieberman Institute for Talmudic Research

The Lieberman Institute continues to develop modern and rigorous computer tools for Talmud study. The goal of the institute is to develop databases that will give access to the innumerable variant readings of the talmudic text in manuscript form and through early printed witnesses.

Project Judaica

Project Judaica, established in 1991, is a joint venture between The Jewish Theological Seminary (JTS) and the Russian State University for the Humanities (RSUH) in Moscow.

JTS Press

The JTS Press offers a wide range of compelling and noteworthy publications on a variety of Jewish topics of interest.

The online and telephone ordering system for JTS Press books is unavailable until further notice. Many titles are available from online booksellers such as Amazon and Barnes & Noble. Urgent requests for other titles may be directed to provost@jtsa.edu for attention.

Tikvah Institute

The Tikvah Institute for Jewish Thought of The Jewish Theological Seminary is an academic program with a public dimension devoted to a searching intellectual encounter between the best sources of Jewish and broader Western reflection on the deepest problems of human life.