Contemporary Jewry and Jewish Education

Students have the choice of answering one from the following two essay questions for their final assignment. Either: Using the criterion for “studying diaspora Jewish communities” as discussed in this course, choose a Jewish community that you are not familiar with and is not included in this course and write a ten-page paper that will […]

Putting all of the Pieces Together: Building a Portfolio

Putting all of the pieces together: Building a portfolio. Our work in this course has involved examining the component parts of a model for Israel education. For your final assignment, we’re interested in you putting all of the pieces together. (To some extent that is also what I have tried to do in the course’s […]

Contemporary Jewry and Jewish Education

In this course, a critique and analysis of the contemporary Jewish situation was made, claiming that three pivotal events were defining experiences of the period: the impact of the Holocaust; the experience of Jews in the USSR; and the creation of the State of Israel. With reference to all three, discuss this critique or analysis. To […]

Renewing the Practice of Israel Education- Building a Portfolio

Putting all of the pieces together: Building a portfolio. Our work in this course has involved examining the component parts of a model for Israel education. For your final assignment, we’re interested in you putting all of the pieces together. (To some extent that is also what I have tried to do in the course’s […]

Building a Portfolio- Jewish Education

Putting all of the pieces together: Building a portfolio. Our work in this course has involved examining the component parts of a model for Israel education. For your final assignment, we’re interested in you putting all of the pieces together. (To some extent that is also what I have tried to do in the course’s […]

An Analysis of the Contemporary Jewish Situation

To what degree it is correct or incorrect that the impact of the Holocaust, the experience of the Jews in the USSR and the creation of the State of Israel were pivotal events in defining experiences of the Contemporary Jewish situation? In this course, a critique and analysis of the contemporary Jewish situation was made, claiming […]