Monday, September 14th | 6:30–8 p.m. | Online Webinar Jewish tradition created a series of five protocols for the healing process known as Teshuvah, or repentance. These protocols include regret for harm, accepting accountability, truth telling, reparations, and guarantees of… Continue Reading
Sunday, March 1st | 6:30–8 p.m. | McLaren Complex For our 10th Annual Swig JSSJ Program Social Justice Lecture, join James Beard Award winning author, chef, and scholar, Michael W. Twitty, for a discussion on navigating social justice and… Continue Reading
Monday, Februrary 10th | 6:30–8 p.m. | Fromm Hall, Berman Room For much of the twentieth century, North African Jews played an outsized role as both music-makers and purveyors of music across the Maghrib. In Morocco, Algeria, and Tunisia,… Continue Reading
THRS 378 – JEWISH MYSTICAL IMAGINATION Unit(s): 4 Through the reading of biblical, classical and contemporary mystical and kabbalistic texts in translation, we will examine the great themes of the Jewish mystical imagination. Instead of studying the material historically, we… Continue Reading
THRS 329 – CONTEMP. POLITICAL PROPHETS Unit(s): 4 This course explores the lives and thoughts of modern-day ‘prophets,’ individuals known for their social activism, political courage, and moral character. We will also examine the idea of a “political prophet,” the… Continue Reading
THRS 325 – MODERN JEWISH THOUGHT Unit(s): 4 An overview of dominant modern and postmodern Jewish narratives related to the Jewish experience in terms of culture, history, philosophy, and theology, with a special focus on the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.… Continue Reading
THRS 324 – JEWISH AND ISLAMIC MYSTICISM Unit(s): 4 How have Jews and Muslims understood and articulated mystical experiences, their most intimate encounters with ultimate realities, God, and/or God’s messengers (e.g., angels)? What are the distinctive features of Jewish Mysticism?… Continue Reading
THRS 318 – REL NONVIOLENCE/POLS INTERPRET Unit(s): 4 This course explores the relationship between politics and religion through an examination of the phenomenon of religious nonviolence as it manifests among Jews and Muslims living in Israel and Palestine.
THRS 258 – THIRD SEMESTER HEBREW Unit(s): 4
THRS 257 – SECOND SEMESTER HEBREW Unit(s): 4 Hebrew II continues Hebrew I and provides instruction in the reading, writing, and speaking of modern Hebrew, with additional attention to Biblical Hebrew. Basic grammar and vocabulary and simple texts and audio… Continue Reading
