August 15-16
Rabbi Lennard Thal
Shabbat Evening “Our Movement’s Challenges: A passionate Reform Jew shares his worries about the years ahead.”
Saturday Evening:
Our Bible: The Way it IS …And the Way it Might Have Been
A look at how The Bible came to be the Bible – who made the decisions (and what criteria were used) to include some of the books of debatable value and exclude some of the literary gems now found only in the Apocrypha.
Prior study of Biblical Literature NOT required.
Rabbi Lennard R. Thal is the immediate past Senior Vice President of the Union for Reform Judaism.
August 29-31
Prof. Howard Berger
Jewish-Christian Relations from 1st Century until the Present.
focusing on:
The Jewish People vs the Greco-Roman World up till the Middle Ages
The Jewish People vs the Medieval World up till The French Revolution
The Jewish People and the Golden Medinah--the "great exception"
The Jewish People vs Modern Anti-Semitism--1870s until today
These he'll be sharing his perspective on this subject having just come back from studying in Israel for the summer
Howard Berger is the J.P. Weyerhaeuser Chair of American History. He received his B.A. (with Honors in History, and Phi Beta Kappa) from George Washington University, and earned a M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Washington. His specialty is in American Intellectual History.
Dr. Berger joined the College of Idaho faculty in 1982. His regular courses include: Modern Western Civilization, Introduction to the History of the U.S., History of American Ideas, National Socialism and the Final Solution, America in the 1960s, History of U.S. Foreign Policy, The American Westward Movement, The U.S. since 1945, The American South since 1865, Jewish History, and Modern Russia and the U.S.S.R. In addition to regular courses, Dr. Berger has led three student study tours to Israel.
