I105-TS

This three-part course is an introduction to Judaism designed to equip students to engage with Jewish life and Jewish institutions. Each part can stand on its own as a separate course, and the three may ...

L100B-TS Instructors: Druch Starting: 01/11/2012 Location: Temple Sinai

This is a continuation of our introductory Prayerbook Hebrew course, designed for those who can sight-read Hebrew texts with vowels. We will focus on developing the foundation for reading comprehension and a basic Hebrew vocabulary. ...

A300-TS Instructors: Tobin Starting: 02/22/2012 Location: Temple Sinai

Worldwide, the number of Jews is stagnant. Decimated by the Inquisition, the Holocaust, high intermarriage rates and low birth rates, Jews now comprise only 0.2% of the world's people. In focusing our attention on traditional ...

I100C-TS Instructors: Adar Starting: 04/04/2012 Location: Temple Sinai

Who is a Jew? Who are the Jews? We will explore these questions by looking at Jewish life from many different angles: kashrut, Israel, the movements of Judaism (Reform, Conservative, Orthodox, Reconstructionism and Renewal), Jewish ...

I100B-TS Instructors: Adar Starting: 01/11/2012 Location: Temple Sinai

As the Jews travel through history, we have recorded our experiences in various texts: Bible, Midrash, Mishnah, Talmud, Codes, Responsa literature, and the Prayerbook, which Jacob Petuchowski, a scholar of Jewish liturgy, has described as ...

A150-TS Instructors: Spence Starting: 01/24/2012 Location: Temple Sinai

We will cover the high points of Jewish-American fiction over the last 50 years. Working our way from the 1960s through the 1990s and beyond, we’ll explore the myriad and divergent ways that writers have ...

A350-TS Instructors: Kepler Starting: 03/28/2012 Location: Temple Sinai

Children experience life quite differently than adults. We will address what it is like to grow up Jewish if you don’t look Jewish. What comments and behaviors impact a multiracial child’s sense of their Jewishness? ...

P150-TS Instructors: Steingroot Starting: 03/14/2012 Location: Temple Sinai

Christianity has been described as Jewish wine in a pagan vessel. Likewise, the classical monotheistic grapes of Jewish history and law were grafted on to hardy mythic and magical rootstock, the agricultural year as a ...

P200-TS Instructors: Adar Starting: 04/11/2012 Location: Temple Sinai

You will eat, you will be satisfied, and you will bless upon the good land that God has given you (Deut. 8:10) Eating is one of those ordinary experiences which Jewish observance makes holy. Traditionally, ...