Community Learning

Jewish Literature, Philosophy, Art and History - Fall 2022

Schechter's Fall 2022 Hybrid and Zoom Courses

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Jewish Stories in the Voice of Child Narrators

New Zoom course with Dr. Shana Rosenblatt Mauer. Sundays, 10:30 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. (Israel time) -- Starting Nov 6, 2022.

Encountering Islamic Mysticism through Fieldtrips to Sacred Sufi Sites in Jerusalem

New course with Prof. Paul Fenton. Mondays, 9:30a.m. - 1:00p.m. (Israel time) -- Starting October 24th, 2022.

Was God a Feminist? A Close Reading of Exodus 1-2

New course with Esther Lapian. Tuesdays, 10:30a.m. - 12:00p.m. (Israel time) -- Starting Nov 8th, 2022.

The Good Life: Judaism on the Search for Happiness and Meaning

New Zoom course with Dr. Elliott Malamet. Wednesdays, 10:30a.m.-12:00p.m. (Israel time) -- Starting Nov 2nd, 2022.

The Feminist Art Movement and the Jewish Experience

New Zoom course with Dr. Shula Laderman. Wednesdays, 12:30p.m. - 2:00p.m. (Israel time) -- Starting Nov 2nd, 2022.

Daytime in North America, Evenings in Jerusalem

The History of the Jews of Venice (with virtual tours)

New Zoom course with Dr. Shulamit Furstenberg-Levi. Sundays, 4:00 p.m. - 5:15 p.m. (Israel time) -- Starting Oct 30, 2022.

A Historical Virtual Tour of Ukrainian and Polish Shtetls

New Zoom course with Dr. Katya Malakhova. Sundays, 5:15p.m. - 6:30p.m. (Israel time) -- Starting October 30th, 2022.

Rabbinic Stories: Modern Lessons

New Zoom course with Rabbi Dr. Vernon Kurtz. Sundays, 6:30p.m. - 7:45p.m. (Israel time) -- Starting October 30th, 2022.

Philosophers Jews Love

New Zoom course with Dr. Joshua I. Weinstein. Mondays, 5:00p.m. - 6:15p.m. (Israel time) -- Starting October 31th, 2022.

The Jewish State through the Eyes of Great Israeli Writers

New Zoom course with Dr. Shana Rosenblatt Mauer. Tuesdays, 6:30 p.m. – 7:45 p.m. (Israel time) -- Starting Nov 8th, 2022.

Jews in the Italian Renaissance

New Zoom course with Dr. Katherine Aron-Beller. Wednesdays, 4:00p.m. - 5:30p.m. (Israel time) -- Starting Nov 2nd, 2022.

The Book of Lamentations: The Many Sides of Truth

New Zoom course with Rabbi Benjamin Segal . Wednesdays, 6:00p.m. - 7:15p.m. (Israel time) -- Starting Nov 2nd, 2022.

On Judeans and Jews: The Hasmonean State and the Books of Maccabees

New Hybrid course with Professor Daniel R. Schwartz. Tuesdays, 4:00p.m. - 5:15p.m. (Israel time) -- Starting Nov 8th, 2022.

Jewish Literature, Philosophy, Art and History - Spring 2022

Schechter's Spring 2022 Hybrid and Zoom Courses

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Jewish Literary Memoir: Modern Historical, Communal and Social Moments Through the Prism of Jewish Voices

New Zoom course with Dr. Shana Rosenblatt Mauer. Sundays, 10:30 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. (Israel time) -- Starting March 6, 2022.

Sisters in the Bible: Tales of War and Peace

New in person course with Esther Lapian. Tuesdays, 10:30 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. (Israel time) -- Starting March 1, 2022.

Moshe’s Last Stand: Deuteronomy and the Closing of the Five Books

New Zoom course with Dr. Elliott Malamet. Wednesdays,10:30 a.m. –12:00 p.m. (Israel time) Zoom Only -- Starting March 2, 2022.

Jewish History as Told by Illuminated Haggadot

New Zoom course with Dr. Shula Laderman. Wednesday, 12:30 p.m. – 2:00 p.m. (Israel time)-- Starting March 2, 2022.

Daytime in North America, Evenings in Jerusalem

Hillel the Elder: The Classic Sage

New Zoom course with Rabbi Dr. Vernon Kurtz. Sundays 6:30 pm –7:45 pm (Israel Time) 11:30 am – EST | 10:30 am – CST | 8:30 am – PDT-- Starting March 6, 2022.

The History of the Jews of Rome (with virtual tours)

New Zoom course with Dr. Shulamit Furstenberg-Levi. Sundays, 4:30PM – 6:00PM (Israel time) 9:30 am – EST | 8:30 am – CST | 6:30 am – PDT -- Starting March 6, 2022.

A Legal View of the Other: The Jew in Muslim Law and the Muslim in Jewish Law

New Zoom course with Prof. Paul Fenton. Mondays, 4:00 p.m. - 5:30 p.m. (Israel time) | 9:00 am – EST | 8:00 am – CST | 6:00 am – PDT-- Starting March 7, 2022.

Contemporary Philosophical Issues in Judaism

New Zoom course with Dr. Joshua I. Weinstein. Mondays 5:30 pm – 6:45 pm (Israel Time) | 10:30 am – EST | 9:30 am – CST | 7:30 am – PDT -- Starting March 7, 2022.

Philosophies of Jewish Prayer: The Quest for Meaning

New Zoom course with Dr. Elliott Malamet. Tuesdays, 7:30 pm – 8:45 pm (Israel Time) 12:30 pm – EST | 11:30 am – CST | 9:30 am – PDT -- Starting March 1, 2022.

Talmudic Stories: Lessons from the Past for Contemporary Society

New Zoom course with Rabbi Dr. Vernon Kurtz. Tuesdays, 4:30 p.m. – 6:00 p.m. (Israel time) 9:30 am – EST | 8:30 am – CST | 6:30 am – PDT -- Starting March 1, 2022.

Jews on Trial: From Jesus to Dreyfus

New Zoom course with Dr. Katherine Aron-Beller. Wednesday, 4:30PM – 6:00PM (Israel time) 9:30 am – EST | 8:30 am – CST | 6:30 am – PDT -- Starting March 2, 2022.

Ukrainian Shtetls: A Journey through Time

New Zoom course with Dr. Katya Malakhova, Lecturer from War-Torn Kyiv. Sundays, 5:30 p.m. – 6:45 p.m. (Israel time)-- Starting May 1, 2022.

Jewish Literature, Philosophy, Art and History - Fall 2021

Schechter's Fall 2021 - Winter 2022 Hybrid and Zoom Courses

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A.B. Yehoshua: A Revolutionary Israeli Writer

Online course with Dr. Shana Rosenblatt Mauer, Sundays, 10:30 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. (Israel time), starting October 17 2021.

The History of the Jews in Florence (with virtual tours)

Online course with Dr. Shulamit Furstenberg-Levi, Sundays, 1:00 pm – 2:30 pm (Israel time), starting October 17 2021.

Handmade Midrash: Visual Theology Workshop 2021

with Dr. Jo Milgrom, live at the artist's home in Jerusalem, starting October 18 2021.

Everything You Wanted to Know About Rashi but were Afraid to Ask

New hybrid course with Esther Lapian, Tuesdays, 10:30 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. (Israel time), starting November 23, 2021.

Tradition Confronts Modernity: The Philosophies of R. Avraham ha-Kohen Kook, R. Joseph Soloveitchik and R. Jonathan Sacks

New hybrid course with Dr. Ari Ackerman, Tuesdays, 12:30 p.m. – 2:00 p.m. (Israel time), starting October 19 2021.

In the Desert: Existential Themes in Sefer Bamidbar (The Book of Numbers)

Online course with Dr. Elliott Malamet, Wednesdays, 10:30 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. (Israel time), starting October 20 2021.

Jewish Identity and Tikun Olam in Israeli and American Artistic Creations

New online course with Dr. Shula Laderman, Wednesdays, 12:30 p.m. – 2:00 p.m. (Israel time), starting October 20 2021.

Daytime in North America, Evenings in Jerusalem

How to Live an Ethical Jewish Life

Online course with Rabbi Dr. Vernon Kurtz, Sundays, 6:30 p.m. – 7:45 p.m. (Israel time), starting October 17 2021.

An Encounter with the Legacy of 19th-20th Century Jewish Communities in Ukraine

New Zoom course with Rabbi Irina Gritsevskaya, Sundays, 8:30 p.m. – 9:45 p.m. (Israel time), starting October 17 2021

Judaism in a Box: Six Essential Jewish Ideas

Online course with Dr. Elliott Malamet, Tuesdays at 5:30 pm - 6:45 pm (Jerusalem); 10:30 am (EST); 9:30 am (CST); 7:30 am (PDT), starting October 19 2021.

Jerusalem in Art, History and Literature: Between Image and Reality

Online course with Dr. Katherine Aron-Beller, Wednesdays, 4:30 p.m. – 6:00 p.m. (Israel time), October 20 2021.

Kohelet: A New Reading of Ecclesiastes

New Zoom course with Rabbi Benjamin Segal, Wednesdays, 7:00 p.m. – 8:15 p.m. (Israel time), starting October 20 2021.

Rabbinic Teachings on the Destruction of the Temple and its Relevance for Contemporary Society

Online course with Rabbi Dr. Vernon Kurtz, Tuesdays, 4:30 p.m. – 6:00 p.m. (Israel time), starting October 19 2021.

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