Rhythms: Year 1
The Jewish Year Begins
What Is "Jewish Time?"
Introducing the Jewish Calendar
Rosh Ha-Shanah
Yom Kippur
Sukkot
Shemini Atzeret and Simchat Torah
Day-to-Day Jewish Living
Jewish Reminders and Symbols
Beit Ha-Knesset (Synagogue)
Berakhot (Blessings)
Tefillah (Prayer) and Tzedakah (Charity)
Shabbat and Its Messages
Shabbat and Its Observance
Laws and Customs of Kosher Observance
Rabbinic Innovations
Chanukah
Purim
Tu B'Shvat
Rites of Passage
Birth and Berit
Bar and Bat Mitzvah
Marriage
Divorce
Mikveh
Rituals of Death and Burial
Rituals of Mourning
Conversion and Adoption
Formative National Movements
Pesach (Passover)
The Pesach Seder
Yom Ha-Shoah and Tisha B'Av
Yom Ha-Zikaron and Yom Ha-Atzma'ut
Shavuot
Concluding Lesson: Reflecting on the Rhythms of Jewish Life
Purposes: Year 1
Introduction to Purposes of Jewish LivingGod
Creation
Mankind
Sin
The Chosen People: Why Us?
What Does It Mean To Be the "Chosen People"?
Eretz Yisrael (The Land of Israel)
Yetziat Mitzraim (The Exodus From Egypt)
Miracles
Revelation at Sinai
Mitzvot I
Mitzvot II
Women: Ancient Paradigms
Women: Contemporary Perspectives
Is the Torah the Revealed Word of God?
Revelation, Torah and Halakhah
Theology in Practice: Driving on Shabbat
Mishkan/Mikdash (The Sanctuary)
Hasgakhah (Providence)
A Theology of Prayer
Leadership
Churban (Destruction) and Galut (Exile)
Yemot Ha-Mashi'akh (The Messianic Era)
What Happens After We Die?
Why Do People Suffer?
Responses to Suffering in the Holocaust
The Religious Significance of the State of Israel
Talmud Torah (Torah Study)
Dramas: Year 2
We Are What We RememberIntroduction to the Biblical Period
A Biblical Debate About Kingship
Prophets As Religious Critics of Society
Return to Zion: The Dream and the Reality
Introduction to the Second Temple and the Rabbinic Period
The Hasmonean State: A Jewish State?
Internal Tensions: Controversies of the Sadducees and Pharisees
Struggling With Roman Rule
Early Christianity: Challenges and Responses
Eretz Yisrael and Babylonia
Introduction to Medieval Period
How "Golden" Was the Golden Age of Spain?
Who Is A Jew? The Complexities of Jewish Identity in 14th-15th Century Spain
Between Despair and Hope: Reactions to the Spanish Expulsion of 1492
Jewish Communal Life In Medieval Ashkenaz: External and Internal Perspectives
The Image of the Jew in Medieval Christianity and Medieval Christian Anti-Semitism
Sanctifying God's Name: The Ethos of Jewish Martyrdom in Medieval Ashkenaz (Germany)
Living In Anticipation: Waiting For the Messiah in Medieval Times
Shabbatai Tzvi: The Limits of Heresy, Dissent and Personal Autonomy
Introduction to the Modern Period
Cultural Enlightenment and Political Emancipation: The Jews and Modernity in Western Europe (I)
Intellectual and Religious Responses to Modernity: The Jews and Modernity in Western Europe (II)
Haskalah and Its Opponents: The Impact of Modernity in Eastern Europe (I)
From Haskalah to Zionism: The Impact of Modernity in Eastern Europe(II)
The Holocaust Part I: Nazism as Ideologies and Practice
The Holocaust Part II: Contrasting Jewish Experiences of the Holocaust
The Challenges of Statehood: Understanding the "Zionisms" of 1948
Multiple and Fragmented Identities: Jews in the Contemporary World
Past, Present and Future: Thoughts on the Study of Jewish History
Ethics - Year 2
Foundational LessonsEquity and Justice: Moral Awareness Within Judaism
The Significance of Human Life
The Imitation of God
Personal Virtues
For You, For Me
Jewish Approaches to Making Ethical Decisions
Ethics of the Innermost Circle - Family and Personal Relations
Power of the Spoken Word
Donating Organs During One's Life
Donating Organs After Death
Suicide
Ethics of the Inner Circle - Family and Personal Relations
Honoring Aging Parents
Sexual Desire and the Institute of Marriage
Ethics in Marriage
Ethics in Divorce
Honosexuality
Fertility Management
Abortion
Gender-Related Ethics
Euthanasia and End-of-Life Decisions
Ethics of the Outermost Circle - Community
Individual or Community: All For One, or One For All?
Taking a Trip to Israel
Gemilut Chasidim
Ransoming Captives
Ethics of the Outermost Circle - World
Tzedakah Priorities
Making an Honest Living
Jews and Gentiles
Environmental Ethics
Animal Experimentation
Stem Cell Research
Conclusion: A Code of Jewish Living
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