Chai to the Chief: American Jews & the White House
Program:Hebrew College Tamid Instructor: Dr. Jonathan Golden (Read Bio) Dates: 4 Wednesdays, Fall 2024: 10/30, 11/6, 11/13 & 11/20 Time: 7-8:00 p.m. ET Course fee: $120, financial aid is available Location: Zoom Hosted by: Hebrew College Registration:Click here
This course will explore the history of the relationship between Jews and the American presidency. It will shed light and provide context for the upcoming 2024 election. These will include American Jewish roles in campaigns and U.S. Israel relations. Participants will walk away with paradigms to think about the past, present, and future of American Jewish civic engagement in presidential politics and policy.
Program:Hebrew College Tamid Instructor: Ariella Amshalem (Read Bio) Dates: 7 Sundays, Fall 2024: 11/3, 12/8, 1/26, 2/9, 3/9, 4/6 & 5/18 Time: 10-11:30 a.m. ET Course fee: $280, financial aid is available Location: In Person at Hebrew College Hosted by: Hebrew College and Co-Sponsored by the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion Hebrew Language Registration:Click here
“Refranes” are Ladino proverbs that help paint a picture of Sephardic culture. We will look at refranes (pronounced “refranehs”) that are food-centric and cook dishes related to the refran. In this way we will explore the community each dish comes from and learn about the significance of the food, or ingredients mentioned in the particular refran.
Program:Hebrew College Tamid Instructor: Rabbi Natan Margalit (Read Bio) Dates: 5 Thursdays, Fall 2024: 11/7, 11/14, 11/21, 12/5 & 12/12 Time: 7-9:00 p.m. ET Course fee: $250, financial aid is available Location: Zoom Hosted by: Hebrew College and Co-Sponsored by the North Shore Clergy Group Registration:Click here
How do we find ways to disagree and yet remain friends, or at least civil enough to co-exist in the same society? When does speech go over the line and become unacceptable, and when do we embrace differences of opinion? These are central and vital questions in the current political and social climate. Jewish tradition has much to say about argument, oppression with words, and inclusion verses exclusion from communities. In this course we’ll explore Jewish sources, from biblical to Talmudic to Hasidic, and contemporary writers and thinkers, including Parker Palmer, Rabbi Jonathan Sacks, Michael Pollen and more.
Program:Hebrew College Tamid Instructor: Natasha Shabat (Read Bio) Dates: 8 Wednesdays, Fall 2024: 9/18, 9/25, 10/9, 10/30, 11/6, 11/13, 11/20 & 12/4 Time: 7-8:30 p.m. ET Course fee: $320, financial aid is available Location: Zoom Hosted by: Hebrew College Registration:Click here
Learn some lesser-known Hebrew blessings you can recite for the holidays, for cycles of life, events in nature and the climate, cycles of the moon, and times of war and elections. Dive deeply into the Hebrew meaning, study the sources and history of these blessings, and enrich your knowledge of Hebrew.
Israel – The Generational Divide: A Course for Parents Struggling to Understand Their Children’s Perspectives on Israel
Program:Hebrew College Tamid Instructor: Rabbi Dan Judson (Read Bio) Dates: 5 Tuesdays, 10/29, 11/5, 11/12, 11/19, 11/26 Time: 7-8:30 p.m. ET Course fee: $250, financial aid is available Location: In Person at Hebrew College Hosted by: Hebrew College Registration:Click here
The crisis in Israel has caused divides within and beyond the Jewish community. Some of those divides have not just separated Jewish communities but are now dividing families. We have heard so many stories of families at odds with each other over Israel, family members who are unable or unwilling to communicate with each other.
This course is specifically for parents who are wrestling with their children’s views on Israel. We are hoping to bring parents together to learn and think together about Israel and about family. The course will be a mix of various types of learning. We will be looking at different perspectives on Israel, including that part of the Jewish community which questions Israel, not with the eye to tear down but to try to critically understand this worldview. We will hear from a family therapist for best strategies on communicating through difference. We will also examine some of the historical debates around Zionism to better understand our own moment.
While we will inevitably bring our personal experiences to our conversations, this course is meant to be not so much a support group but an opportunity to learn and reflect together in a space where there is some basic shared experience.
Because of the nature of the class, space is limited, and we are asking individuals to tell us a bit about why they would like to take the class. A member of the Hebrew College Tamid Team will reach out to you after you register to gather this information.
A History of Zionism Through 5 Thinkers, Poets & Authors
Program:Hebrew College Tamid Instructor: Rabbi Dan Judson (Read Bio) Dates: 6 Mondays, Fall 2024: 9/23, 9/30, 10/7, 10/14, 10/21 & 10/28 Time: 9:30-11:00 a.m. ET Course fee: $300, financial aid is available Location: In Person at Hebrew College Hosted by: Hebrew College Registration:Click here
Explore writers and thinkers who represent different perspectives on the nature and development of Zionism. History will be seen through poetry, biography and ideas. We will dive into the writing of five key figures with the goal of understanding the dynamic and various ways that Zionists before the creation of the state conceptualized Israel. The figures that we’ll engage with are: Nachum Bialik – The first epic poet of Zionism; Vladimir Jabotinsky – Creator of Revisionist Zionism and the Jewish Legion; Henrietta Szold – Founder of Hadassah; Judah Magnes – Proponent of bi-nationalism and Itzik Manger – Yiddish poet of return.
