Seminar One
Encountering Israel:
Foundations of Peoplehood and Faith
Week One: Peoplehood, Land and God
- From Crisis to Covenant
- Foundations of Jewish Peoplehood
- Jews and the World: The Ideas of Choseness
- Biblical Ideas of God
- Rabbinic Ideas of God
- The Mystery of Shabbat
Week Two: Land, Power, and the Palestinian Conflict
- Three Pillars of Zionism
- Jewish Theologies of History
- Judaism and the Land
- Between Fulfillment and Disappointment: Israel through Contemporary Literature
- The Dilemma of Power
- The Palestinian Israeli Community Today
- Memories of Powerlessness and Isolation in an Age of Jewish Power
Seminar Two
Dilemmas of Power
Week One: Israel and the Palestinians: A Values Discussion
- The Current Jewish Discourse on Peace
- Justice: “X” Happened
- Justice and Compromise
- Classical Zionist Thinkers and the Palestinians
- Israeli and Palestinian Women Confronting Traditional Societies
Week Two: Israel Confronts Itself
- How Israelis Understand a Jewish and Democratic State
- Mizrahi Politics
- Us and Others
- Jewish Secularists, Israeli Secularists
- Ultra-Orthodox and Religious Zionists
- A Palestinian Vision of Peace
- Living with Difference: Pluralism, Tolerance, and Deviance