This 10-lessons in 6 sessions Scholars course provides students with a strong, text-based historical overview from the late nineteenth century through today. Course material is designed to encourage discussion and debate, […]
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(10 lessons) Students explore the profound record of first-person accounts in diaries and memoirs uncovered in the years since the Holocaust and gain remarkable insights into the struggle for life […]
Social justice is a response to the suffering and indignity in our lives and in the larger world that is different from a service response. This new Melton course will […]
Kol Isha is reaching higher, going deeper. Join us for a semester of exploration of meanings within the text of Genesis. Using the new English edition of Mikrot Gadolot, Great […]
Rhythms of Jewish Living: examines the Jewish calendar, holidays, and life-cycle events. Students explore ideas, beliefs and practices that define Jewish life. Purposes of Jewish Living: explores Jewish thought and […]
This course follows the development of the emerging Jewish nation from their awe-inspiring encounter at Mount Sinai through the building of the tabernacle in the wilderness. The high points of divine […]
This 4-session Melton course explores the impact of collective memory. Participants will encounter in a number of different ways one of the most powerful keys to Jewish survival: the enduring […]
Ethics of Jewish Living (Revised 2018): examines the relationship between Jewish Life and ethical behavior and sheds light on how Jewish scholars and thinkers with multiple approaches consider contemporary issues that affect us […]
This ongoing class is in its eleventh year at the BJE. Master educator, Dr. Jane Shapiro, inspires students to dig deeply into the meaning of the Tanakh by way of ancient […]