The Orange County Jewish Community Scholar Program (the “CSP”) is a community-wide, cross-denominational endeavor based in Orange County, CA committed to create both (i) a strong and transformative adult Jewish learning program in Orange County that attracts participation from a wide spectrum of community members and challenges participants to grapple with Jewish texts and traditions on a very advanced level and (ii) family and community spiritual growth opportunities and happenings with the leading Jewish artists, teachers and performers of our generation. The CSP was founded in September of 2001 with funding from a group of local philanthropists to address a variety of fundamental needs in the Orange County Jewish community. To learn more about CSP, visit us on the Web at www.occsp.org or call us at (949) 682-4040.
CSP: Mendelsohn – 21 Percent Israeli
CSP: Liptz – Looking Back to the Future: What Must We Do Now?
CSP: Liptz – Politics and Politicians – Part 4 of 4 Yitzhak Rabin: The Price of Peace
CSP: Liptz – Creating a Nation – Part 4 of 4 Russian Speaking Immigrants: 1990-2020
CSP: Liptz – Israel’s Neighbors: Nationalism and Religion in a Complex Region – Part 3 of 3 The Politics of Survival: Jordan
CSP: Liptz – Politics and Politicians – Part 3 of 4 Menachem Begin, The Peace Treaty and a New Israel
CSP: Liptz – Creating a Nation – Part 3 of 4 The “Beta Israel”: Jews from Ethiopia
CSP: Liptz – Israel’s Neighbors: Nationalism and Religion in a Complex Region – Part 2 of 3 Syria’s Civil War and its Implications
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CSP: Liptz – Politics and Politicians – Part 2 of 4 Golda Meir: A Determined and Committed Zionist
CSP: Liptz – Politics and Politicians – Part 2 of 4 Golda Meir: A Determined and Committed Zionist
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CSP: Liptz – Creating a Nation – Part 2 of 4 The Yemenite Jews: Returning Home
CSP: Liptz – Israel’s Neighbors Nationalism and Religion in a Complex Region Part 1 of 3 Fundamentalism of the Shia Iran and its Regional Allies
CSP: Liptz – Politics and Politicians Part 1 of 4 David Ben-Gurion Founder and Builder
CSP: Liptz – Creating a Nation Part 1 of 4 Holocaust Survivors Come Home 1945-1962
CSP: Liptz – Fulfilling the Dream: The Fascinating Story of Modern Israel
CSP: Liptz – Fulfilling the Dream: The Fascinating Story of Modern Israel
CSP: Freund – Escape from the Holocaust- Geoscience and Archaeology
CSP: Moster – Etrog How A Chinese Fruit Became a Jewish Symbol
CSP: Kokin – Rome and the Jewish Imagination
CSP: Elman & Batalion – What Exactly is a YidLife Crisis?
CSP: Gereboff – 18th Annual Pre-High Holiday Event For Whom Do We Blow the Shofar?
CSP: Weiss – Pop Toys and Power Politics Israel and the Eurovision Song Contest
CSP: Weiss – Black is the New Black Ultra-Orthodox Jews Israel and the Globalization of Television
CSP: Horovitz – Adam Ve’Adama [Human and Land] Exploring the Relationship Between the People and the Land of Israel as Reflected Through Art
CSP: Horovitz – Israeli Art as a Window to Israeli History & Collective Memory
CSP: Horovitz – What is Israeli Culture? A Roller Coaster Ride Through Israeli Contemporary Culture
CSP: Raikin – Documenting History Through Art- Jewish life in Eastern Europe Before the Holocaust through the artistic lens of David Labkovski
CSP: Moore – Jewish Identity Politics
CSP: Moore – GI Jews How World War II Changed a Generation
CSP: Moore – City of Promises A History of New York Jews
CSP: Goren – The Many Layers of Jerusalem
CSP: Korazim – How to Become an Israeli
CSP: Korazim – Homeland and Identity
CSP: Korazim – Forbidden Games – All About Censorship
CSP: Zevit – Storytelling in the Bible – How and Why
CSP: Arnovitz – Living Under Water
CSP: Arnovitz – People of the Book/Artist’s Books
CSP: Arnovitz – Tear/Repair
CSP: Epstein – Lions Unicorns and Fiery Dragons: The Art of the Polish Synagogues
CSP: Kurtzer – OC iEngage Lecture with Yehuda Kurtzer
CSP: Franklin – Tracing Ancestors in Eastern Europe Strategies and Example
CSP – Burger – Lessons from Elie Wiesel’s Classroom
CSP: Dollinger – Past, Present, and Future – Deploying Our Understanding of History to Frame Contemporary American life and Wonder About Its Future
CSP: Dollinger – Past, Present, and Future – Deploying Our Understanding of History to Frame Contemporary American life and Wonder About Its Future
CSP: Dollinger – American Jewish History A Primary Source Reader
CSP: Dollinger – American Jewish History A Primary Source Reader
CSP: Dollinger – American Jewish History Session 3
CSP: Dollinger – American Jewish History Session 3
CSP- Dollinger – “Civil Rights and Social Justice” The Untold Story
CSP- Dollinger – “Civil Rights and Social Justice” The Untold Story
CSP: Dollinger – Land of Opportunity and Land of Challenges Session 2
CSP: Dollinger – Land of Opportunity and Land of Challenges Session 2
CSP: Dollinger – American Jewish History Session 2
CSP: Dollinger – American Jewish History Session 2
CSP: Dollinger – California Jews
CSP: Dollinger – California Jews
CSP: Dollinger – Jews and Whiteness
CSP: Dollinger – Jews and Whiteness
CSP: Dollinger – Land of Opportunity and Land of Challenges Session 1
CSP: Dollinger – Land of Opportunity and Land of Challenges Session 1
CSP: Dollinger – American Jewish History Session 1
CSP: Dollinger – American Jewish History Session 1
CSP: DOLLINGER – New Interpretations of American Jewish History – What Really Happened? and What Did It Mean?
CSP: DOLLINGER – New Interpretations of American Jewish History – What Really Happened? and What Did It Mean?
CSP: Mendes-Flohr – Are We Still Jews? Challenges and Prospects in Modern Jewish Thought
CSP: Kokin – Found in Translation? Foreign Songs and the Creation of Israeli Musical Culture
CSP: Heilman – The Story of Five Hasidic Dynasties in America
CSP: Cammy – Yiddish Matters, or The Meaning of Yiddish
CSP: Cammy – When Yiddish Was Young: Vilna’s Last Generation
CSP: Baron – Crescent & Star-Crossed Lovers Jewish-Muslim Romance Films
CSP: Willette – Modern Artists and Jewish Art Dealers The Jewish Art Dealers in Berlin in the 1920s Until the Coming of Hitler
CSP: Kasher – The King is Dead Long Live God On the Need for New Religious Metaphors
CSP: Gurock – From Ancient Face Offs through Medieval Time Outs Jewish History and the Culture of Sports
CSP: Gurock – Jewish Harlem The Rise Decline and Revival of a Jewish Community
CSP: Wagner – New Trends in Holocaust Research and Education
CSP: Wagner – Politics of Memory in Germany and Poland Today
CSP: Kokin – Celebrating Seven Decades of Israeli Music
CSP: Stark – Gutman Rubin and the History of Tel Aviv
CSP: Korazim – Israel -Diaspora Relations: Changing Narratives
CSP: Korazim – Anochi – Dialogues with God in Israeli Poetry
CSP: Klitsner – The Tent the Field and the Battlefield Upheavals in the Roles and Fortunes of Biblical Women
CSP: Baron – Statuettes of Limitations The Oscars and the Holocaust 1945-1960
CSP- Zevit – How Did the Bible Come to Be Some Essential Questions and Answers
CSP- Chajes – Visual Kabbalah Part 3 Diagramming Heresy
CSP- Chajes – Unseen Seers Recovering the Women Mystics of Jewish History
CSP- Chajes – Unseen Seers Recovering the Women Mystics of Jewish History
CSP- Chajes – The Kabbalah Unveiled Part 3 From Eroticism to Anatomy
CSP- Chajes – The Kabbalah Unveiled Part 3 From Eroticism to Anatomy
CSP- Chajes – Exorcists Dybbuks Demons Oh My
CSP- Chajes – Exorcists Dybbuks Demons Oh My
CSP- Chajes – Visual Kabbalah Part 2 Jews Christians and the Kabbalistic Tree at the Dawn of Modernity
CSP- Chajes – Visual Kabbalah Part 2 Jews Christians and the Kabbalistic Tree at the Dawn of Modernity
CSP- Chajes – Imagining Cosmic Torah
CSP- Chajes – Imagining Cosmic Torah
CSP- Chajes – The Kabbalah Unveiled Part 2
CSP- Chajes – The Kabbalah Unveiled Part 2
CSP- Chajes – Visual Kabbalah Part 1 A Brief History of the Tree of Life
CSP- Chajes – Carlebach Friday Davening Workshop
CSP- Chajes – Carlebach Friday Davening Workshop
CSP- Chajes – The Kabbalah Unveiled Part 1 The Emergence of Kabbalah
CSP- Alpern & Yoskowitz – Re-envisioning Ashkenazi Cuisine – Jewish Cooking from Europe to America and Back Again
CSP: Dollinger – Civil Rights and Social Justices The Untold Story of American Jews and the 1960s
CSP: Hovav – My GREAT (and Short) Great Grandfather and the Revival of the Hebrew Language
CSP: Sharett – Writing on the Wall- A Virtual Tour of Southern Tel Aviv’s Bohemian Florentin Neighborhood
CSP: Epstein – Bruriah Truth, Myth, and the Construction of the Ideal Jewish Woman
CSP: Glickman – Sacred Treasure: The Cairo Genizah
CSP: Baron- The Wandering View- The Jewish Immigrant in World Cinema
CSP: Yanklowitz – This Rosh Hashanah- Cultivating Moral Courage
CSP: Mintz – Torah U-Madah: Yeshiva University
CSP: Mintz – Tradition and Change – Jewish Theological Seminary
CSP: Mintz – The First and the Oldest Jewish Seminary in America: Hebrew Union College
CSP: Mintz – Adapting Russian Judaism to the American Landscape
CSP: Shabbat Alive XIV – Mostly Kosher 2.0 part2
CSP: Shabbat Alive XIV – Mostly Kosher 2.0 part1
CSP: Kalb – Critique vs The Degradation and Devaluation of Leadership in Judaism
CSP: Kalb – The Controversy Over Conversion and Some Potential Solutions
CSP: Kalb – Rock and Roll Judaism
CSP: Kalb – Joseph – Beyond the Technicolor Dreamcoat
CSP: Chemerinsky – The Supreme Court’s Momentous Year 2017 – Excerpt
CSP: Klitsner – Inside-Outside Biblical Leaders and Their Non-Jewish Mentors
CSP: Glickman – Stolen Words The Nazi Plunder of Jewish Books
CSP: Korazim – Politics and Poetics
CSP: Korazim – The Other as a Mirror
CSP: Sepinwall – Students Sports and the Second Generation New Directions in French Films on the Holocaust
CSP: Orzach – Northern Exposure
CSP: Rohrig – CSP Sunday Conversation featuring Geza Rohrig
CSP: Ruderman – Jewish History and Jewish Memory- Reflections on History and Community
CSP: Ruderman – Debates that Shaped Jewish Thinking and Their Contemporary Significance–From the Middle Ages to the Present- Three Zionist Thinkers–Their Differing Visions of a Jewish State and their Relevance for Contemporary Jews- Achad ha-Am Jacob Klatzkin, and Louis Brandeis
CSP: Ruderman – In Search of Saviours: The Messianic Impulse in Jewish History and its Consequences: The Messiah and the Modern Jewish Experience: Reform Judaism, Socialism, and Zionism
CSP: Ruderman – Martin Buber’s Legacy for Modern Jews- The Eclipse of God and the Search for Human Relationship
CSP: Ruderman – In Search of Saviours: The Messianic Impulse in Jewish History and its Consequences: Shabbetai Zevi: The Mystical Messiah
CSP: Ruderman – Debates that Shaped Jewish Thinking and Their Contemporary Significance–From the Middle Ages to the Present: Two competing visions of Jewish Life in the Modern World: Abraham Geiger and Samson Raphael Hirsch
CSP: Ruderman – A Tale of Three Jewish Cities – Amsterdam and its Converso Community-The Saga of the First Modern Jews
CSP: Ruderman – Three Moments in the History of Jewish-Christian Relations: Missionaries, Meshumadim [Apostates], and Maskilim [Enlighteners]: The Revival of the Jewish Christian Debate in the Nineteenth Century
CSP: Ruderman – Debates that Shaped Jewish Thinking and Their Contemporary Significance– From the Middle Ages to the Present: The Baal Shem Tov versus the Gaon Elijah of Vilna
CSP: Ruderman – God and Nature- Kabbalah and Science at the Dawn of Modernity
CSP: Ruderman – Debates that Shaped Jewish Thinking and Their Contemporary Significance– From the Middle Ages to the Present: American Jewish Thought: The Contrasting Postures of Mordechai Kaplan and Abraham Joshua Heschel
CSP: Ruderman – Three Moments in the History of Jewish-Christian Relations- Pt2 The Christian Discovery of the Rabbis and the Mishnah in Eighteenth Century England
CSP: Ruderman – Debates that Shaped Jewish Thinking and Their Contemporary Significance- Pt1: From the Middle Ages to the Present: Judah Ha-Levi versus Moses Maimonides
CSP: Ruderman – God and Nature: Three Early Modern Rabbis on Nature, Medicine, and Science
CSP: Ruderman – Three Moments in the History of Jewish-Christian Relations Pt1 Jews, Christians and the Kabbalah in Renaissance Italy
CSP: Ruderman – Confessions of a Jewish Historian: Why I Study the Jewish Past
CSP: Ruderman – Confessions of a Jewish Historian: Why I Study the Jewish Past
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CSP: Troy – A History of US-Israel Relations as Seen Through the Oval Office
CSP: Reiss – The Simpsons and Other Jewish Families
CSP: Goren – A Walk of the Land – The Israel National Trail Udi Goren
CSP: Kaufman – On the History of “Funny Jews” in American Pop Culture
CSP: Zollman – Exodus! Leon Uris, Paul Newman and American Zionism
CSP : Artson – Renewing the Process of Creation – A Jewish Integration of Science and Spirit
CSP: Goldberg – AHAVA_LOVE The Gift and the Challenge of Living at the Center of our Tradition
CSP: Cline – Excavating Armageddon – New Discoveries and Old Debates at Megiddo
CSP: Cline – Raiders of the Faux Ark- From Noah’s Ark to the Ark of the Covenant and Beyond
CSP: Cline – 1177 BC- The Collapse of Civilizations and the Rise of Israel
CSP: Epstein – The Lost Tribes- A Quest
CSP: Epstein – Jews and Music- Beautiful Harmonies
CSP: Epstein – The Most Elegant Jews -The Western Sephardim
CSP: Berkovits – DARKHEI SHALOM, The Path to Building Community
CSP: Chemerinsky – A 60 Minute Review of the Court’s Major Cases in 2016
CSP: Korazim – Complex Images of Peace and Hope
CSP: Benstein – Is Hebrew Mosaic – or a Mosaic? Continuity and Change in Jewish Identity Through Language
CSP: Katz – Shlomo Katz Live in Concert
CSP: Goodman – Three Narratives of the Arab-Israeli Conflict
CSP: Ariel – Israel as Portrayed in Israeli Films
CSP: Keller – Sex and the Bible: Maybe Even A Little More Than You Wanted to Know
CSP: Keller – Take My Wife Please: Marital Relationships in the Biblical Text PART 4 OF 4
CSP: Keller – Omens, Oracles & Execrations: in the Bible and the Surrounding World PART 3 OF 3
CSP: Keller – Take My Wife Please: Marital Relationships in the Biblical Text PART 3 OF 4
CSP: Keller – Omens, Oracles & Execrations: in the Bible and the Surrounding World PART 2 OF 3
CSP: Keller – Take My Wife Please: Marital Relationships in the Biblical Text PART 2 OF 4
CSP: Keller – Omens, Oracles & Execrations: in the Bible and the Surrounding World PART 1 OF 3
CSP: Keller – Take My Wife Please: Marital Relationships in the Biblical Text PART 1 OF 4
CSP: Keller – Sex, Magic and Death in the Bible–Let’s Start at the Very Beginning
CSP: Garroway – The Historical Paul
CSP: Garroway – The Historical Jesus
CSP: Goshen-Gottstein – Celebrating 50 Years of Jewish Christian Relations
CSP: Greenwald – Amichai – Poetry and Possibility
CSP: Merwin – Pastrami on Rye An Overstuffed History of the Jewish Deli
CSP: Wolfson – The Best Boy in the United States of America
CSP: Kaunfer – The Mourner’s Kaddish – A New Interpretation
CSP: Kaunfer – How Can I Pray What I Don’t Believe? A Case Study
CSP: Kaunfer – When Who Wrote the Prayer Matters: The Deeper Meaning of “Avinu Malkenu”
CSP: Kaunfer – Who By Fire? The Most Controversial Prayer in Jewish Life
CSP: Berenbaum – The New Anti-Semitism
CSP: Chemerinsky – A 60 Minute Review of the Court’s Major Decisions in 2015
CSP: Awwad & Hanan – Painful Hope Jewish and Palestinian Ability to Live Together
CSP: Greenwald – Sex, Lies and Canaanite Wives: Inside the World’s First Intermarriage Debate
CSP: Magid – Jewish Thinking Outside the Christian Gaze – The Case of Hasidism
CSP: Lachter – Facing Forward: Lessons from Past Transformations for Jews in the 21st Century
CSP: Lachter – Pressing for Change: Perspectives on Jewish Extremism Today Part 3: Crisis of Authority: Cautions from the Jewish Past for Today’s Israeli Rabbinate
CSP: Lachter – Dreams of Redemption: Messianic Hopes and Failures Part 3: From the Ba’al Shem Tov to Menachem Mendel Schneerson: Following Prophets and Redeemers in the Modern World
CSP: Lachter – Kabbalah in a Surprising Place: On the Role of Jewish Mysticism in Early Mormon Theology
CSP: Lachter – Nothing Held Back: Why Hasidism is both Loved and Feared
CSP: Lachter – Pressing for Change: Perspectives on Jewish Extremism Today Part 2: Jews and Religious Violence
CSP: Lachter – Dreams of Redemption: Messianic Hopes and Failures Part 2: Shabbtai Zvi, The Mystical Messiah: Why They Loved Him Before They Hated Him
CSP: Lachter – Human Bodies in Divine Form: Incarnation as a Jewish Idea
CSP: Lachter – Expelled- Jewish Exiles and the Shaping of Jewish Identity Temple
CSP: Lachter – Pressing for Change: Perspectives on Jewish Extremism Today Part 1: Jewish Fundamentalism and the Dynamics of Contemporary Religion
CSP: Lachter – Dreams of Redemption: Messianic Hopes and Failures Part 1: Competing Visions of the Messiah in the Talmud
CSP: Lachter – Jewish Mysticism Then and Now: Kabbalah as a Cultural Phenomenon from the Middle Ages to Madonna
CSP: Lachter – Was Maimonides a Radical?
CSP: Lachter – Anything but Secret: On the Ironically Public Role of Kabbalah in Shaping Judaism
CSP: Tokayer – Jews of the Far East
CSP: Zollman – American Jews and the Civil War
CSP: Mann – Tinseltown – Murder, Morphine, and Madness at the Dawn of Hollywood
CSP: Cohen – T’shuvah Inside and Out – How We Change the World Through Changing Ourselves
CSP: Dauber – The Remarkable Life and Afterlife of the Man Who Created Tevye – The Worlds of Sholom Aleichem
CSP: Elbaum – Into the Fullness of Freedom
CSP: Solomon – The Jewish Future in One Hour
CSP: Solomon – Major Prophets–Ezekiel
CSP: Heschel – An Evening With Susannah Heschel
CSP: Solomon – Chazal In the Age of Empires- An Overview of the Talmudic Period part 3 of 3
CSP: Solomon – Major Prophets Jeremiah
CSP: Solomon – Chazal In the Age of Empires- An Overview of the Talmudic Period part 2 of 3
CSP: Solomon – Major Prophets Isaiah
CSP: Solomon – Chazal In the Age of Empires- An Overview of the Talmudic Period part 1 of 3
CSP: Solomon – The Whole of Jewish History In One Hour
CSP: Feinstein – Q&A with Rabbi Feinstein Facilitated by Rabbi Elie Spitz
CSP: Feinstein – Building a Meaningful Life: Ancient Wisdom from Modern Sources
CSP: Feinstein – Building a Meaningful Life: What Can We Learn from the Rabbis of the Talmud?
CSP: Feinstein – Building a Meaningful Life- Modern Lessons from Ancient Sources
CSP: Cassedy – Leonard Bernstein- American Original
CSP: Olitzky – Playlist Judaism in a Post Pew World-Making Choices for a Vital Future
CSP: Regev – Imagine a Reality – Israel and Judaism in an Era of Religious Freedom and Equality
CSP: Brous – Conversation with Sharon Brous
CSP: Wolfson – Relational Judaism Using the Power of Relationships to Transform the Jewish Community
CSP: Artson – God of Becoming and Relationship – The Dynamic Nature of Process Theology
CSP: Epstein – From Chabad to Rothko to Woodstock: Yale Epstein, a Jewish Artist in the 20th Century Part 2
CSP: Epstein – From Chabad to Rothko to Woodstock: Yale Epstein, a Jewish Artist in the 20th Century Part 1
CSP: Revenge of the Storytellers
CSP: Gospel Shabbat
CSP: Seroussi – Sound and Music of the Synagogue
CSP: Seroussi – Singing Israeliness: Popular Music and Israeli Cultural Identity
CSP: Seroussi – Judeo-Spanish mystique: ‘Ancient’ and ‘Modern’ in Contemporary Sephardi Music
CSP: Seroussi – Tradition: Eastern European Jewish Music and Its (post-) Modern Offsprings
CSP: Infeld – Leadership and Peoplehood
CSP: Infeld – Ten Steps to Understanding Israel Today
CSP: Infeld – The Five Legged Table Theory
CSP: Stein – Passover Around the World
CSP: Adams – A Talk About Elie Wiesel’s “The Forgotten”
CSP: Solomon – How to Convert the Pope: Successful and Failed Attempts to Bring the Messiah
CSP: Korazim – Windows to Israeli Society through Literature: Connections to the Land.
CSP: Epstein – Imaging the Future: Jewish Art and Its Role in the Future of the Jewish People – audio
CSP: Epstein – People of the Image: How Jews Made Art in Spite of the Second Commandment – and Why it Matters – audio
CSP: Sabar – Bride and Heroine – The Image of the Jewish Woman in Renaissance and Baroque Italy – Part 2 of 2
CSP: Sabar – Bride and Heroine – The Image of the Jewish Woman in Renaissance and Baroque Italy – Part 1 of 2
CSP: Ron – Spiritual Music Traditions of the Middle East
CSP: Havdalah Music Collaboration
CSP: Levine – Jewish Christian Common Misunderstandings Part 1 of 2
CSP: Levine – Jewish Christian Common Misunderstandings Part 2 of 2
CSP: Cohen-Magen – Ultra Orthodox Communities in Israel
CSP: Lawton – The Truth About Europe
CSP: Lawton – Should We Be Afraid? An Attempt at Modern Prophecy
CSP: Lawton – Clive on the Holidays Part 3 of 3: The strange case of Purim – an exploration of how Purim made it into the Jewish calendar
CSP: Lawton What should we think about Israel?
CSP: Feinstein – Once Upon A Time
CSP: Feinstein – A Brief History of Chutzpah
CSP: Feinstein – The Questions That Won’t Go Away
CSP: Lawton – Clive on the Holidays Part 2 of 3: Have the Greeks won? A retrospective study on the Chanukah battle for supremacy
CSP: Lawton – What Calendars Tell Us About Cultures
What Calendars Tell Us About Cultures
CSP: Lawton – Clive’s Take on the Holidays Part 1 of 3: The Tishri roller-coaster
CSP: Lawton – Jewish history was a ball! A study of the good times Jews have had through history
CSP: Katz – Martin Buber’s Hasidic Stories: A Re-Evaluation
CSP: Artson – Teshuvah: Turning, Returning, Changing, Becoming
Teshuvah: Turning, Returning, Changing, Becoming
CSP: Fishbain – I Thou M. Buber – Relational Living with the Other
I Thou M. Buber – Relational Living with the Other
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CSP: Waldocks – A Jew in the Lotus: The Jewish Buddhist Encounter
CSP: Waldocks – Chai Chi: The Deep Structure of Tefila
CSP: Waldocks – Beyond Laughter Through Tears: A Brief History of Jewish Humor
CSP: Berk – Looking Back and Looking Forward
CSP: Berk – Israel and the Middle East, Part 3 of 3: Persia, Iran and the Jews
In 1948 the State of Israel was created. The development of a ferocious anti-Semitism in Europe, long standing religious impulses, and the spread of nationalism to large segments of the Jewish population created the political movement known as Zionism. Two world wars also played an important role in the creation of Israel. The problems confronting the first Jewish state in two thousand years were huge. Wars with neighbors, the difficulty of absorbing millions of immigrants and resolving the tensions between religious and secular
Jews were and remain the great issues facing the State of Israel. Only the presence of gifted leaders and the help of a powerful ally saved the state from destruction.
a) Zionism, A History
b) Three Who Made Israel: Weizmann, Ben Gurion and Begin
c) Persia, Iran and the Jews
CSP: Berk – A Tale of Two Popes Pius XII and John Paul II
CSP: Berk – Zion in America: The American Jewish Experience
Zion in America: The American Jewish Experience
From the very beginning of Jewish settlement in the New World, Jews understood that America was a very different place. Vast areas of arable land, the expanding frontier, a plethora of religions and races, and the influence of the Enlightenment created an environment in which Jews thrived. There was a price, however, that Jews had to pay for this unprecedented freedom. To this day Jews have struggled with the question of how to remain Jewish in a society in which everything is open to them. Assimilation, not anti-Semitism is the perennial problem confronting the American Jewish community.