Session Dates Dramas Topics  Ethics Topics 
       
1 9/15 We Are What We Remember Equity and Justice: Moral Awareness within Judaism
2 9/22 Introduction to the Biblical Period The Significance of Human Life
3 9/29 The Biblical Debate about Kingship The Imitation of God
4 10/6 Prophets as Religious Critics of Society Personal Virtues
5 10/13 The Return to Zion: The Dream and the Reality For You, or for Me
6 10/20 Intro. to the Second Temple and the Rabbinic Period Jewish Approaches to Making Ethical Decisions
7 10/27 The Hasmonean State: A Jewish State? Power of the Spoken Word
8 11/3 Internal Tensions Donating Organs During One's Life
9 11/10 Struggling with Roman Rule Donating Organs After Death
10 11/17 Early Christianity: Challenges and Responses Suicide
11 12/1 Eretz Yisrael and Babylonia Honoring Aging Parents
12 12/8 Introduction to Medieval Period Sexual Desire and the Institution of Marriage
13 12/15 How "Golden" was the Golden Age of Spain? Ethics in Marriage
14 1/5 "Who is a Jew?" Ethics in Divorce
15 1/12 Between Despair and Hope Homosexuality
16 1/19 Jewish Communal Life in Medieval Ashkenaz Fertility Management
17 1/26 The Image of the Jew in Medieval Christianity… Abortion
18 2/2 Sanctifying God's Name Gender Related Ethics
19 2/9 Living in Anticipation Euthanasia and End of Life Decisions
20 2/16 Hasidism Individual or Community: All for One or One for All
21 2/23 Introduction to the Modern Period Traveling to Israel
22 3/2 Cultural Enlightenment and Political Emancipation Gemilut Chasadim
23 3/9 Intellectual and Religious Responses to Modernity Ransoming Captives
24 3/16 Haskalah and Its Opponents Tzedakah Priorities
25 3/23 From Haskalah to Zionism Making an Honest Living
26 4/13 The Holocaust Part II Jews and Gentiles
27 4/27 The Challenges of Statehood Environmental Ethics
28 5/4 Freedom and Obligation Animal Experimentation
29 5/11 Multiple and Fragmented Identities Stem Cell Research
30 5/25 Past, Present, and Future A Code of Jewish Living
  6/1 Make-up Day