About This Course
This nine-unit course is on Navigating Israel Issues in the Diaspora. Each unit includes a pre-recorded video lesson, reading material and a quiz.
Students will receive one full credit for completing this course.
We recommend taking this course in conjunction with the “Jewish-Muslim Relations and the Arab-Israeli Conflict” elective course. We also offer a 1:1 havrutah with Dan Aviv, “The Conflict in 4 Acts“
This course is 1 credit towards smicha
Course Overview
Unit 1 – Zionism – An exploration (Part 1 of 2)
Unit 2 – Zionism – An exploration (Part 2 of 2)
Unit 3 – Division – Looking back, looking forward (Part 1 of 2)
Unit 4 – Division – Looking back, looking forward (Part 2 of 2)
Unit 5 – Nakba – Confronting our Demons (Part 1 of 2)
Unit 6 – Nakba – Confronting our Demons (Part 2 of 2)
Unit 7 – Anti-Semitism & Anti-Zionism (Part 1 of 3)
Unit 8 – Anti-Semitism & Anti-Zionism (Part 2 of 3)
Unit 9 – Anti-Semitism & Anti-Zionism (Part 3 of 3)
Course Objective
Through video lessons, additional reading and other material as well as short quizzes this course aims to give you a better understanding of the ongoing conflict.
Course Syllabus
Assessment
Assessments for this course will include one quiz for each unit.
Your Instructor
Ratings and Reviews
Madison MeljacClass was well organized and easy to listen and follow, but I believe some of the reference materials and videos he mentioned he asked us to listen to were not attached or enough the pages attached to get the correct answer. Take a lot know notes as you must be precise with your answers. The course gave me information I did not know before and helps introduce us to this new, brave world.
Donald MeltzerI give the instructor a huge amount of credit for taking on an incredibly difficult controversial topic, forcing Jewish rabbinical students to really examine so many of their assumptions about the Israeli-Palestine conflict, anti-Zionism and anti-semitism. I remain a very strong liberal Zionist following these lectures but the course forced me to understand the Palestinian perspective better.
The topic is SO important and the amount of material presented is excellent. This course helped me deepen my compassion for the Palestinian experience HOWEVER, this would have been way more helpful with a different way of measuring my thoughts, feelings and absorption of the material. The quizzes were infuriating. The quizzes became the focus of learning rather than the material due to poor design