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3.00 Credits
Imagery and metaphors are at the root of theology. The course will rely on traditional texts, biblical text, poetry, and art to provide a frame work for a pluralistic understanding of the major issues of theology. The emphasis will be on promoting a variety of points of view and voices in the classroom honoring diversity of opinions and the nurturing of individual theological journeys. Division: College Division Department: Thought
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3.00 Credits
See Bible 30120 This course can be taken for either Bible or Jewish Thought credit. Division: College Division Department: Thought
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3.00 Credits
This course provides a graduate-level introduction to Classical Judaism, covering the Biblical, Rabbinic, and Medieval periods. After surveying the history and major texts of the Classical period, the course will concentrate on training students to analyze classical Jewish texts in depth, first examining traditional Jewish legal texts (Halachah) and then texts of classical Jewish thought and values (Aggadah). Division: College Division Department: Thought
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3.00 Credits
This course offers a graduate-level introduction to Judaism in the Modern Period. Together with a brief survey of Jewish history during this period, the course will concentrate on the religious and ideological challenges posed to Judaism by modernity and the range of Jewish responses, such as the Enlightenment, Reform Judaism, Conservative Judaism, contemporary Orthodoxy, Jewish secularism, Zionism, Jewish socialism, and Jewish liberalism. Division: College Division Department: Thought
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3.00 Credits
Ecology is a burning issue of our times. The course will explore how Jewish law and philosophy have dealt with a range of ecological issues throughout Jewish history. Students participating in the course will examine different kinds of writings from Mishna and Talmud to more recent philosophical and Halachic writings. Division: College Division Department: Thought
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3.00 Credits
(Formerly Introduction to Kabblah) This course provides an introduction to the Jewish mystical tradition, focusing on the classic text of Jewish mysticism, the Zohar; and on the early Hasidic masters, including the Baal Shem Tov and Rabbi Nahman of Bratslav. The course will cover topics such as mystical visions and experiences, mystical interpretation of the Torah, the doctrine of Sefirot, the mystical purpose of the commandments,and mystical concepts of prayer. Division: College Division Department: Thought
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3.00 Credits
The Holocaust is an unsolved problem for humanity. Nearly sixty years after World War II we are still struggling to understand the hell of Nazi Europe and its implications. For the Jewish thinker the problem is even more urgent. Without denying its universal implications, the Holocaust is part of Jewish experience for many years to come. Suffering and destruction of such magnitude have far-reaching effects on the way Jews regard their Jewishness. Division: College Division Department: Thought
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3.00 Credits
Judaism and Islam are in many ways extraordinarily similar and In other respects very different. To study them side by side increases our understanding of each one. The course will assume that students have some knowledge of Judaism, butno knowledge of Islam.Topics include an introduction to Islam,Islamic and Jewish Scripture; Islamic and Jewish law; thepost-World War Tworevival of Islam and of religious Judaism; cyber-Islam and cyber-Judaism; Jews in Islamic societies; and Muslims in Israeli society. Division: College Division Department: Thought
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3.00 Credits
This course examines models which attempt to solve moral contradictions in ancient Jewish literature and the Holy Scriptures such as Abraham sacrificing Isaac and the obligation to destruct the Amaleki people. We confront these issues in the light of philosophers like Yeshayahu Leibowitz, Efraim Aurbach and others. This course presents methods of sensitizing our students as teachers or learners to moral values in the bible. Division: College Division Department: Thought
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3.00 Credits
While rooted in the philosophies of past generations, American Judaism has 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. Visiting lectures will discuss the nature of Jewish ritual in contemporary Jewish life; Jewish ethics; the role of prayer; gender differentiation; and the relationship of American Jewry to Israel. Division: Jewish Community High School Department: Jewish Ethics and Values
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