Rabbi Guttman's "Crossroads to Jewish History" Course

 Rabbi Guttman’s course is entitled “Crossroads to Jewish History.” Coming in at this time of the course means that one will, in essence, be taking a course in Modern Jewish History. This Wednesday's topic is Anti-Semitism and the rise of Zionism.

Rabbi Koren’s course is entitled “Ethics of Jewish Living.” This week’s course will deal with Ethics For Our Times, concentrating on whether we as Jews should place our focus on the needs of individuals over the needs of the community, or vice versa. This topic is incredibly timely as it gets to the heart of responses to the current global pandemic.

Jews had been rejected and ostracized by Christian society for over a millennium by the time emancipation was granted to the Jews. Emancipation relied on the statement of Clermont-Tonnerre: “the Jews should be denied everything as a nation, but granted everything as individuals.”1 This was understood and accepted in various ways…