This class will take place online via video conference. 

Instructor: Rabbi Leonard Gordon, D. Min.

Class Schedule Note: Additional snow/sick days April 30 & May 7

Cost: $350. Financial aid is available; please contact meah@hebrewcollege.edu for details.

Registration: To register for this class, please contact Linna Ettinger.

Class Description: Beginning with Spinoza and concluding with contemporary Jewish feminists our class will consider how secular and religious Jews shaped modern Judaism and modernism itself.  Often pairing religious and secular figures who were contemporary we will look at the enlightenment, messianism, moral philosophy, Hassidism, life in Israel and the diaspora, the origins of the denominations and Feminism.  Figures we will read include: Spinoza, Mendelson, Marx, Scholem, Ahad Haam, Freud, Salanter, the Hafetz Hayyim, Buber, Rosenzweig, Roth, Bialik, Rachel, Amichai, Plaskow, Piercy, Falk and Lefkovitz

This class will be held at Temple Emunah