Rabba Kaya Stern-Kaufman will facilitate this course created by the Shalom Hartman Institute in Jerusalem. The classes will include video lectures from leading Israeli scholars, text study and discussion. We hope to meet in person with a Zoom component for those who choose to learn from home. The dates for class meetings will be: 10/17, 10/31, 11/14, 12/12, 12/19, 1/9, 1/23, 2/6

     Declaration of the State of Israel

Class topics are as follows:

Unit 1: 1917 – The Balfour Declaration: The Idea of a Homeland for the Jewish People 
Unit 2: 1947 – The United Nations Partition Plan: The Jews in the World
Unit 3: 1967 – The Six Day War: Power, Land, and God
Unit 4: Judea and Samaria: Occupation or Liberation
Unit 5: One State, Two States: Moral Red Lines
Unit 6: Jerusalem of God, Prayer, and Peoplehood
Unit 7: Jerusalem of Responsibility, Loss, and Hope
Unit 8: The Jubilee Year and Beyond

More information about the course.

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This FLYER gives more information and access codes for reading the materials online. Or you can purchase the BOOK in paperback.