Class 13 – Love, Marriage and Sex
Recommended read: Taking the Plunge: A Practical and Spiritual Guide to the Mikveh Revised Edition, by
Class 14 – Birth to Bar Mitzvah
For anyone who hopes to be a Jewish parent, or knows a new Jewish parent to whom they want to give a gift, check out this book: Nurture the Wow: Finding Spirituality in the Frustration, Boredom, Tears, Poop, Desperation, Wonder, and Radical Amazement of Parenting by Danya Ruttenberg | Apr 19, 2016
Class 15 Israel
The Dreyfus Affair and Theodore Herzl
Two important articles to read:
The War that Changed Everything
One hour lecture on significance of the Six Day War – click here
Israel and the UN (Honest Reporting video)
Suggested book: Israel: A Concise History of a Nation Reborn, by Daniel Gordis. 2016. HarperCollins
Especially, Chapter 12, from p. 259-282 for the period of the Six Day War.
Class 16– Anti-Semitism/Holocaust
Suggested reading: Philip Steele, The Holocaust: The Origins, Events, and Remarkable Tales of Survival
Class 17 – Death and Mourning
Class 18 – Passover
OOF reading
Pesach Table – click here
Recommended Haggadah: Click here
A Night to Remember: The Haggadah of Contemporary Voices (Hebrew -English) (English and Hebrew Edition) (Hebrew)Paperback – February 16, 2007 by