Description
Early Zionism’s influence on the present.
Location
ONLINE
Date & Time
TUESDAYS, 10-11:30 am (ET) Oct. 6, 13, 20, 27; Nov. 3, 10, 17
"If you will it,
it shall be no dream.”
-- Theodor Herzl
Course Description:
This course will engage the major shapers of the return to Zion
through their lives and literature and present major personalities of the last centuries. Through political, cultural, and theological lenses, we will examine the challenges they encountered and the pain they endured that shaped the modern State of Israel.
TUESDAYS, 10-11:30am (ET)
Dates: Oct. 6, 13, 20, 27; Nov. 3, 10, 17
About the Instructor:
Rabbi Haskell M. Bernat, D.Min. received undergraduate degrees from Columbia University and the Jewish Theological Seminary. He was ordained At the Hebrew Union College and received the Masters Degree with Honors. Upon Ordination he was appointed to his seminary as a Teaching Fellow in Talmud and completed the fellowship at Brandeis University in Jewish Mysticism. He earned a Doctorate in Interreligious Studies from St Thomas University. An Orthodox Jewish upbringing (where Yiddish was his first language) and his early Yeshiva education is coupled with advanced scholarship in Western Civilization. He brings this blended background to the Melton classroom.
