In our fall semester, our class explored the tragic last days of the Kingdom of Judah in 586 BCE and its aftermath in texts from II Kings and Lamentations. To close the academic year, we’ll celebrate the restoration of the...
Your Shabbat-Prep Practice The Eight Chapters, as it has come to be known, was called by Maimonides, “An Introduction to Avot." It was written sometime between 1158 and 1165, much of it while living as a refugee in Fez, Morocco,...
In our fall semester, our class explored the tragic last days of the Kingdom of Judah in 586 BCE and its aftermath in texts from II Kings and Lamentations. To close the academic year, we’ll celebrate the restoration of the...
Your Shabbat-Prep Practice The Eight Chapters, as it has come to be known, was called by Maimonides, “An Introduction to Avot." It was written sometime between 1158 and 1165, much of it while living as a refugee in Fez, Morocco,...
In our fall semester, our class explored the tragic last days of the Kingdom of Judah in 586 BCE and its aftermath in texts from II Kings and Lamentations. To close the academic year, we’ll celebrate the restoration of the...
This course begins with two famous ancient Tamudic bedroom stories with antipodal messages, but its focus is on how—1800 years later—these tales generate an astounding contemporary debate between two colors of black, two leading Haredi ultraOrthodox groups in Israel (who...
In our fall semester, our class explored the tragic last days of the Kingdom of Judah in 586 BCE and its aftermath in texts from II Kings and Lamentations. To close the academic year, we’ll celebrate the restoration of the...
Your Shabbat-Prep Practice The Eight Chapters, as it has come to be known, was called by Maimonides, “An Introduction to Avot." It was written sometime between 1158 and 1165, much of it while living as a refugee in Fez, Morocco,...
In partnership with Beth Jacob Congregation, Oakland Megillat Ruth (The Book of Ruth) is an extraordinary novella with a simple but profound goal: to take us from the alienation of grief into a healed society. The story centers on a...
This course begins with two famous ancient Tamudic bedroom stories with antipodal messages, but its focus is on how—1800 years later—these tales generate an astounding contemporary debate between two colors of black, two leading Haredi ultraOrthodox groups in Israel (who...
This program will consider a number of texts composed by Jews dwelling under imperial rule in antiquity (the Persian, Greek, and Roman empires) in order to understand how the substantial humor in those texts reflects the experience and attitudes of...
In our fall semester, our class explored the tragic last days of the Kingdom of Judah in 586 BCE and its aftermath in texts from II Kings and Lamentations. To close the academic year, we’ll celebrate the restoration of the...