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Out-of-the-box learning for a century seeking clarifications
Judaism is what Jews learn through their experiences .
This on-line learning program is designed for those tha have previous knowledge about Judaism as well as those that will learn about it for the first time.
For those who have previous knowledge the courses in this program will serve as an actualization of that knowledge. Much has changed in academia in the past few years as well as in the way people see the world. New questions have been asked and previous suppositions have been proved faulty. Not all the new conclusions are correct though, and much is still needed to be done to produce a corpus of knowledge that can match what our experiences tell us.
The study program of the Academy is divided into three areas:
In 634-637, Muslim armies commanded by the Caliph Umar conquered the entirety of the Levant. By August 636 most of the land of Israel was in Moslem hands.
Jews held the inferior status of dhimmi, which, despite giving them protection to worship according to their own faith, subjected them to many vexatious and humiliating restrictions in their daily lives.
The modern restoration to the land of Israel is more impressive, in significant respects, than was the Second Commonwealth when the Persians allowed those exiled by the defunct Babylonian Empire to return and recover some autonomy.
Jews have lived in the Iberian Peninsula since Roman times. Their story has been very much the story of the Spanish people. Yet after centuries of uneasy cohabitation, Jews were expelled in the 15 th century. Yet, recently the Spanish government somehow intended to redress a “historical mistake
Jews have been the object of a kind of hostility different from that confronted by other groups. This disease of humanity has escaped clear understanding making an alarming comeback in the 21st century. This course is about the state of knowledge and what it is being done about it.
“Other species can communicate with information about the present-about the moods they are in at the moment of communicating- but they cannot consider the future.”
MORRIS, DESMOND: Manwatching: A Field Guide to Human Behavior, p. 149
Sectarianism has been a constant feature of Jewish religion responsible for different developments.
Modern Jewish sectarianism, little understood, plays a significant role in Judaism’s present dynamics and most importantly, its future.
The Jews have been defined by scholars in many different ways- as a nation, a race, a religion, an ethnicity-and polling suggests that Jews themselves differ in how they would define themselves, some emphasizing their religious observance, others indicating their parentage, still other defining Jewishness as a set of cultural characteristics.
Throughout the history of the religion of the Jewish people, a number of diverse and sometimes opposing ideas about God have emerged, not all of which are compatible.
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