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3.00 Credits
This course is an examination of the principles of marketing as they relate to managing the Jewish organization. Students will receive practical instruction through lectures and case studies, and learn how to promote and develop the organization. This course will also include a unit on program development. Students will access the proven tools of marketing and promotion to communicate successfully with diverse audiences. Division: College Division Department: Jewish Communal Service
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While rooted in the philosophies of past generations, American Judaism emerged in the 20th century as a multi-denominational enterprise. Core texts will be examined from which the fundamental principles of Reform, Conservative, Orthodox, and Reconstructionist points of view will be explicated, as well as other movements in American Judaism. Visiting lecturers will discuss developments affecting American Judaism today. Division: College Division Department: Sociology/Thought
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In his classic work, The Sabbath, the late Prof Abraham Joshua Heschel asserted that time, rather than geographic space, is the special métierof the Jewish People. No matter the region or the regime, Jews have been able to fashion sacred worlds of meaning and community by marking the seasons of the year and the seasons of the individual's life. In this class we will explore the historic background of the Jewish calendar and its observances as well as the rites that comprise the Jewish lifecycle. Not only will we examine the traditional realms of meaning and rituals associated with these occasions, but we shall also explore the strains and transformational possibilities created by the realities of contemporary Jewish life. (May be taken for Rabbinics or Sociology credit) Division: College Division Department: Sociology
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3.00 Credits
Contemporary Israeli society is engaged in a fascinating - if painful - search for its own identity. Gone are the days, when Israeli identity was epitomized by images of the kibbutz and the pioneer sabra. Instead, a rich variety of diverse and often conflicting identities have emerged, representing a kaleidoscope of social and cultural enclaves. The object of this course is to explore, discuss and analyze these dramatic changes. The reciprocal relationship between these changes and the political, social and cultural transformations that Israel experienced during this period will also be examined and studied in depth. A broad array of genres and modes of expression - not only academic historical writings, but also literature and art - will be incorporated into our discussion. Division: College Division Department: Sociology
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3.00 Credits
This seminar will provide an overview of the sociology of the American Jewish community in the context of the social history of the American Jewry. Students will become familiar with the demography and social characteristics of the community, as well as its social structure and institutions. The Jewish family, synagogue and communal organizations, and conflict between institution and patterns of innovation will be seen within the context of the current debate among sociologists of the Jews as to the future size and quality of communal life. Division: College Division Department: Sociology
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3.00 Credits
This seminar is designed to give a sociological overview of the contemporary Jewish family in the context of Jewish history and tradition. The traditional Jewish family, the role of both single and dual career families, the impact of divorce, and devising a policy to support Jewish family life within the institutional structures of American Jewry will be considered. Division: College Division Department: Sociology
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3.00 Credits
While rooted in the philosophies of past generations, American Judaism emerged in the 20th century as a multi-denominational enterprise. Core texts will be examined from which the fundamental principles of Reform, Conservative, Orthodox, and Reconstructionist points of view will be explicated, as well as other movements in American Judaism. Visiting lecturers will discuss developments affecting American Judaism today. Division: College Division Department: Sociology/Thought
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3.00 Credits
This course will focus on issues that have defined and directed Jewish pedagogy from its inception until the present day. The first half of the course will focus on the past, with the examination including a brief review of Jewish pedagogy, its history, theoretical debates, and the evolution of its practice across the centuries. The second half of the course will concentrate on the present and future of Jewish education - and consider a number of specific contexts in which Jewish teaching and learning take place in North America. (This course may be taken for Education or Thought credit) Division: College Division Department: Thought
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3.00 Credits
This course examines the ways in which some of the greatest Jewish thinkers were forced to reexamine and reinterpret their inherited religious traditions, including the most fundamental biblical and rabbinic teachings. Through selected readings of Maimonides' Guide to the Perplexed, Spinoza's Theological Political Treatise, and Mendelssohn's Jerusalem, students will examine the ways in which they addressed issues such as prophecy, textual interpretation, and religious authorityDivision: College Division Department: Thought
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3.00 Credits
One question that has troubled Judaism from its very beginning to the present day is "Why does God permit suffering " "Will the Judge of all the earth not act justly " asks Abraham in the Book of Genesis, and from biblical times to the Holocaust and today's headlines, the question has reverberated throughout Jewish tradition. By studying a variety of biblical, rabbinic, philosophical, and mystical texts, some major Jewish responses to this question will be examinDivision: College Division Department: Thought
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