Sunday Courses: Fall 2011

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Course Registration for Grades 8–9 and Grades 10–12.

First Period

Grades 8–9 Core Classes

Teacher(s)

Grade 8 Core Course: Confronting the Shoah

Eric Woodward

Grade 9 Core Course: Do the Mitzvot Matter: Examing the "Mitzvah Initiative"

Josh Schwartz

Grade 9 Core Course (Open to day school graduates): Mishnayot that Matter

Mick Fine

Grades 10–12 Electives

Beyond Blogging: Spiritual Autobiography Writing Workshop

Shira Dicker

Halakhah for Heretics

Rabbi Jeremy Kalmanofsky

From Murder to Genocide: Violence in the Bible

Dr. Regina Stein

Life: Not the Game

Roni Taback

Second Period

Grades 10–12 Core Classes

Teacher(s)

Grade 10 Core Course: Jews, Judaism, and Modernity

Jessica Kirzane 

Grade 11 Core Course: Jewish Philosophy: An Introduction

Eric Woodward

Grade 12 Core Course: The Bible, Archeology, and History

Dr. Regina Stein

Grades 8–9 Electives

 

How Others See Us & How We See Ourselves

Mick Fine

Judaism and Superheroes

Josh Schwartz

The Prozdor Press

Shira Dicker

Third Period

Electives

Teacher(s)

Intensive: Beit Midrash (double-period)

Josh Schwartz

Intensive Hebrew Program (double-period)

Hebrew Faculty

Between Rupture and Continuity: A Look at Jewish Secularism

Abe Rubin

Devils and Demons, Love and Laughter: The Yiddish Theater

Jessica Kirzane

JNN: Jewish News Analysis

Eric Woodward

Fourth Period

Electives

Teacher(s)

Intensive: Beit Midrash

Josh Schwartz

Intensive Hebrew Program

Hebrew Faculty

Money and Morality: Judaism and Business Ethics

Rabbi Lori Forman-Jacobi

Jewish Mythology

Roni Taback