Jewish Theological Seminary

The Jewish Theological Seminary is a collection of five schools, including a rabbinical school, in New York City. It ordains both men and women in the Conservative movement. A page for journalists lists faculty members by topic.

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“Making Movies Moral”

Read a July 31, 2012 review in Christianity Today of William D. Romanowski’s book, “Reforming Hollywood: How American Protestants Fought for Freedom at the Movies.”

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“Israeli film, Jewish-themed films up for Oscars”

The Jewish news service JTA filed a report noting that there were three Jewish-themed films and an Israeli film up for the 2010 Academy Awards. The best known of those films are A Serious Man, a Coen brothers movie that examines their Jewish roots in a retelling of the Book of Job, and Inglourious Basterds, in which a […]

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“The Most Spiritually Literate Films of 2009”

The website SpiritualityandPractice.com has several lists broken down by documentaries, animated films, feature films and so on.  Avatar was a top pick of the site’s founders, United Church of Christ members Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat, even though other Christian critics felt the movie glorified pantheism.

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Telford Work

Telford Work is assistant professor of theology at Westmont College, Santa Barbara, Calif. He has written frequently on evangelicals, and he maintains a personal Website.

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Chris Soper

Chris Soper is a professor of political science at Pepperdine University in Malibu, Calif., and the author of Evangelical Christianity in the United States and Great Britain: Religious Beliefs, Political Choices.

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