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Oct

17 2021

Israel's Milestones and Their Meanings

10:30AM - 12:00PM  

Heather K Tomlinson Temple Israel
200 State Street
Portsmouth, NH 03801

Contact Heather Tomlinson
6034365301
templeoffice@templeisraelnh.org
http://www.templeisraelnh.org

Temple Israel, Portsmouth, is pleased to offer an important 8-part class series prepared by the highly respected Shalom Hartman Institute on pivotal events in Israeli history: 1917, 1947, and 1967. The series includes video, text study, and discussion led by Rabba Kaya Stern-Kaufman, and is sponsored by the Israel Affairs Committee with support from the Cultural Endowment Fund.

The classes will include video lectures from leading Israeli scholars, text study and discussion. We hope to meet in person and via Zoom. The class will meet on Sunday mornings, 10:30 - noon on: 10/17, 10/31, 11/14, 12/12, 12/19, 1/9, 1/23, 2/6. Please register on the temple website calendar for more information and to receive class links and materials.

Class topics are as follows:
Unit 1: 1917 – The Balfour Declaration: The Idea of a Homeland for the Jewish People 
Unit 2: 1947 – The United Nations Partition Plan: The Jews in the World
Unit 3: 1967 – The Six Day War: Power, Land, and God
Unit 4: Judea and Samaria: Occupation or Liberation
Unit 5: One State, Two States: Moral Red Lines
Unit 6: Jerusalem of God, Prayer, and Peoplehood
Unit 7: Jerusalem of Responsibility, Loss, and Hope
Unit 8: The Jubilee Year and Beyond