Revolutionary Text Study!
If you’re in NYC and want to learn more about the intersection of Judaism and justice from a stellar lineup of teachers (and a great book), run run run to sign up for this class! (And then email us if you want to guest blog any of the sessions). It looks amazing.
REVOLUTIONARY TEXT STUDY!
A Six-Part Series on Michael Walzer’s Exodus and Revolution“Wherever people know the Bible, and experience oppression, the Exodus has sustained their spirits and (sometimes) inspired their resistance.”
- Michael Walzer, Exodus and RevolutionDo you have the same conversations at your Passover Seder, year after year? Are you looking for something that might spice things up this time around?
Do you crave substantive and meaningful Jewish learning in community?
If so, here’s the program you’ve been waiting for!
Exodus and Revolution, by Michael Walzer, traces the dynamics of revolution, redemption and liberation through the biblical story of the Israelites leaving Egypt for the Promised Land. It also examines later retellings of Exodus by diverse groups including classical rabbinic interpreters and political actors who used the story as the rallying point for their own revolutionary struggles – from African American resistance to slavery and Jim Crow, to the British and French Revolutions, to the guerilla liberators of various Latin American countries.
Over the course of 6 weeks together, we will unpack Exodus and Revolution through intensive learning in chevrutah (in pairs) and through facilitated discussions that will be guided by some of NYC’s leading scholars and activists. You will have a chance to learn with and from a roster of inspiring rabbis and social justice educators, including:
Aaron Dorfman
Director of Education, American Jewish World ServiceRabbi Elie Kaunfer
Co-Founder and Executive Director, Mechon HadarRabbi David Rosenn
Founder and Executive Director, AVODAH: The Jewish Service CorpsDara Silverman
Executive Director, Jews for Racial and Economic JusticeRabbi Melissa Weintraub
Co-Founder and North American Director, EncounterShmuly Yanklowitz
Co-Founder, Uri L’TzedekRabbi Brent Spodek, the Marshall T. Meyer Fellow at Congregation B’nai Jeshurun, will open and close the series by teaching the introduction and conclusion. Teams of rabbis and educators (including those listed above) will teach the four chapters in between.
Dates: Weekly, starting on Wednesday March 12th and ending on Wednesday, April 16th (March 12th, 19th, and 26th and April 2nd, 9th, and 16th).
**The course will end just in time for you to bring your newfound insights to your Passover Seder!
Time: 7pm-9pm
Location: TBA
RSVP: Audrey Sasson at 212.792.2871 or asasson {at} ajws(.)org or asasson {at} avodah(.)net.
This program is brought to you by AJWS, AVODAH, Congregation B’nai Jeshurun, Encounter, Uri L’Tzedek, Mechon Hadar, and JFREJ.
If I lived in NYC, I’d go just for those teachers.
—rebecca m · February 27th, 2008 at 1:46 pm
“….guerilla liberators of various Latin American countries….”
Riiiight. Castro? Ortega? Che? They were all murderers and your t-shirt is not cool.
It would be great to study social justice with people who weren’t trying to relive the 60s…..
—Yehudit · March 20th, 2008 at 7:11 pm
Yehudit– you are assuming that the teachers are going to agree with all those they study. Seeing as the event hasn’t happened yet, I’m not sure where you’re getting that.
Also, I know a number of those teacher, and no, they arent Che-tshirt - wearing-60’s-nostalgia-folks. They’re smarter than that.
Come on.
—rebecca m · March 21st, 2008 at 6:34 am