Blessed is the One who spoke the world into being

by BZ [➚] · Tuesday, January 15th, 2008

Once again, we are delighted to announce the courses for the 2008 National Havurah Committee Summer Institute! The Institute will be August 11-17 at Franklin Pierce University in New Hampshire. Every teacher is a student, and every student is a teacher.

Morning:

• Heather Stoltz (Poretsky Artist-In-Residence) – Translating Text Into Textile
• Ozer Bergman – Applied Breslov Chassidut: From Page to Practice
• Mitchell Chefitz – Playing with White Fire
• James S. Diamond – Franz Kafka: A Jew for Our Time
• Harold Gorvine – Israel at Sixty: Forty-One Years as an Occupier, 1967-2008
• Aaron Kachuck – Joseph’s Multi-Colored Hellenistic Coat
• Elie Kaunfer – The Essential Prayer: A Deep Investigation into the Amidah
• Bill Kavesh and Solomon Mowshowitz – A Daf a Day for 18 Years: Deconstructing the Encyclopedia Judaica
• Herb Levine – Welcoming the Homeless Stranger — How a Mitzvah is Rooted in Our Stories
• Judith Plaskow and Martha Ackelsberg – The Unfinished Revolution: Jewish Feminism in a “Post-Feminist” Age
• Dawn Rose – Words and Worlds of Two Prophets: Isaiah and Mohammad
• Joe Rosenstein – What is Rosh Hashanah All About?
• Regina Sandler-Phillips – Speaking the World into Being: Jewish Ethics of What We Say and How We Say It
• Ari Weisbard – Rabbinic Rules for Radicals

Afternoon:

• S. Bear Bergman (Poretsky Artist-In-Residence) – Storytelling, Diaspora, and Survival
• Julia Appel – The Art and Spirit of Prayer Leading
• Mitch Chanin – Controversy for the Sake of Heaven: Facilitating constructive dialogue across political differences about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and other controversial issues
• Stephen Eisdorfer – Law and The Law
• Shelly Fredman – The Soul’s Search for Meaning—Creating a Personal Theology
• Bob Freedman – What Words Can Do!
• Bob Goldenberg – What is oral about “Oral Torah”?
• Matthew Goldfield – Infinity and God
• Jill Jacobs and Guy Izhak Austrian – It Goes Without Saying: Power, Passivity, and Social Change
• Eleni Litt – Line, Color, Form: The Shape of Torah and the Kabbalah of Color
• Benjamin Maron – Beyond the Binary: the “Other” Genders in the Mishna and Contemporary Judaism
• Adele Reinhartz – Diversity and Rupture: The “Parting of the Ways” between Judaism and Christianity
• Aviva Richman – The Vagina Monologues Meet the Talmud
• Micha’el Rosenberg – Do We Mourn for the Dead, or for the Living? The Case of Suicide in Halacha

See you in August!