IBJ.Schedule
IBJ Readings IBJ Shabbat Dinner Dec 5 10/27/14 – Class 1 – Beginnings- From Creation to the Edge of The Wilderness CLASS 1- FROM CREATION TO THE EDGE Covenant & Commitment 11/03/14 – Class 2 – Jewish Denominations CLASS 2- HEART OF MANY ROOMS Dorff, “Conservative Judaism” Kushner pp. 49 – 86 Review: Kushner, pp. 92-106 Recommended: Feinstein pp. 97 – 103 BIG IDEAS FROM CLASS 2 (PLURALISM) 11/10/14 – Class 3 – The World of The Bible BIG IDEAS FROM CLASS 3 (TANAKH) Kushner pp 3 -48 Scheindlin pp 1 -49 Scolnic, Prophets and Social Justice 11/17/14 – Class 4 – The Great Wheel of the Jewish Year Kushner pp. 87 -142 Artson, Introducing the Jewish Calendar Holiday chart Recommended: R. Irving Greenberg, The Jewish Way, “The Holidays as the Jewish Way.” 11/24/14 – Class 5 – Shabbat (first session of two) CLASS 5- SHABBAT Rabbi Sharon Brous & Rabbi Aaron Alexander “Walking With Shabbat” Feinstein.Shabbat.YK RecommendedHeschel, Abraham Joshua. The Sabbath
Elkins, Dov Peretz. A Shabbat Reader
Zion, Noam. A Day Apart: Shabbat at Home
BIG IDEAS FROM CLASS 5 (SHABBAT) 12/01/14 – Class 6 – Prayer CLASS 6- When Do I Bow (1) READINGSKushner, 197-214Recommended:Feinstein, 13-22Rabbi Jonathan Wittenberg, God and Us 12/05/14 – Shabbat Service & Dinner 12/08/14 – Class 7 – Shabbat 2 See material listed for Session 5 12/15/14 – Class 8 – Passover: the Jewish Master Story CLASS 8- Passover BIG IDEAS FROM CLASS 8 (PASSOVER) READINGS
Review: Kushner, 124-129Recommended:
Greenberg, The Jewish Way, “Judaism as an Exodus Religion” 01/05/15 – Class 9 – God: Encountering the Holy CLASS 9- GOD Artson, “Almighty No Way! Coming to Know the God We Already Love” READINGS
Kushner, 143-180
Recommended:
Feinstein, 7-12; 41-50
Rabbi Bradley Shavit Artson, “Almighty? No Way! Coming to Know the God We Already Love” Class 15 – A Time to Mourn: Traditions for Death, Grief and Healing BIG IDEAS FROM CLASS 14 (DEATH) How Jewish ritual helped