青少年在线学习

JTS is delighted to offer a year of online learning for Jewish teens across North America. This innovative program brings together students from diverse backgrounds to access classical Jewish texts and find contemporary meaning in the concepts 和价值观 of Jewish tradition.

由专家教师指导, students will be encouraged to ask the questions that matter to them and develop answers that speak authentically to them as young Jews in the 21st century.

我们提供什么

Four courses of 6-8 sessions each will be offered, covering a wide variety of compelling themes and textual genres, 包括:

索多玛:邪恶社会
正义的死亡? Capital Punishment in Jewish Law
犹太移民
性别与伊甸园

Each course is designed both to facilitate encounters with key concepts and to build text skills. Students will engage in guided text study for all skill levels as well as class discussion.

它是如何工作的

Students in eighth to twelfth grade may enroll for the full year or register for individual courses 点菜. Those who enroll for the full year will, 随着时间的推移, build literacy in the various genres of Jewish text and the core concepts of Jewish thought and Jewish life.  

所有的课程将在上午集合 Wednesday evenings from 7:30 to 8:45 p.m. 东部时间.

教师

This program is offered under the auspices of JTS’s on-campus teen learning program, the Rebecca and Israel Ivry Prozdor High 学校. Courses will be taught by our Prozdor director, who is highly experienced in engaging teens in Jewish learning.

费用及注册

成本: 每课程$215

Space in each course is limited in order to maximize the engagement of each student and foster strong social connections.

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课程描述及日期

索多玛:邪恶社会

Seven Wednesdays: November 2, 9, 16, 30; December 7, 14, 21 (2022)
东部时间晚上7:30-8:45

Can an entire society become contaminated by wickedness? In the Book of Genesis, Sodom is just such a society. Through the study of biblical and rabbinic texts, we will explore the nature of that pervasive evil—its institutions, 规范, 和价值观. Students will then apply their learning in a multimedia project and create an online World of Sodom.

正义的死亡? Capital Punishment in Jewish Law

Seven Wednesdays: January 4, 11, 18, 25; February 1, 8, 15 (2023)
东部时间晚上7:30-8:45

Every society has some form of punishment for those who break its rules. But is it ever right to inflict the ultimate punishment—the taking of a life? If it is, when should we do it, and how should it be done? 在这门以塔木德为基础的课程中, we will enter the intellectual world of the rabbis, learn how they thought about capital punishment, and consider how their values might inform our thinking about the death penalty in our own age and society.

犹太移民

Six Wednesdays: February 22; March 1, 8, 15, 22, 29 (2023)
东部时间晚上7:30-8:45

One of a handful of world religions transcending geographical boundaries, Judaism has spread not through conquest or conversion but through the dispersion of migrants and refugees who formed small minority communities across the globe. Through sources ranging from ancient history to our own family stories, we will study the diverse movements of Jewish communities throughout the world and discuss the impact of those journeys on our beliefs 和价值观.

性别与伊甸园

Eight Wednesdays: April 19, 26; May 3, 10, 17, 24, 31; June 7 (2023)
东部时间晚上7:30-8:45

The story of the Garden of Eden is an ancient text that describes a young, distant world. Yet its portrait of gender relations has been used until today to justify the inferior status of women with respect to men. But perhaps the text itself is not so simple. 通过密切, critical study of the biblical text, we will dive deep into the Eden story and ask such questions as: What does it mean that Eve was created from Adam’s rib? Why did each eat from the Tree of Knowledge? What was the purpose of their exile from Eden? Our learning will help us reconsider the values of the Bible and examine our own assumptions about gender and religion.

问题?

请随时与我们联系 ivryprozdor@mi-destino.net or 212-678-8938.