THE RACHEL WASSERMAN SCHOLARS CURRICULUM Jews in America: Insiders and Outsiders Jews in America: Insiders and Outsiders provides students with the opportunity to consider the challenges of Jewish acculturation to American life, and the sacrifices as well as the contributions that have been made over the past 200 years. Lesson topics include the role of education, the three generation hypothesis, anti-semitism and the Holocaust, the changing place of Zionism and the State of Israel, the Civil Rights Movement, and other issues that address American and Jewish culture and identity. This 10-lesson course asks the question, “Is the cup half-empty or half full?” as optimists and pessimists debate the future of Jewish identity in America. The class will meet this Spring on Barrack’s Bryn Mawr campus on Wednesday mornings from 1011:30 AM on the following dates: March 20; April 10, 17, and 24; May 1, 8, 22, and 29; and June 5 and12. Contact Andrea Rock, Director of Melton@Barrack (arock@jbha.org) for further information or to sign up today! The Rachel Wasserman Scholars Curriculum The Scholars Curriculum provides an opportunity for continued study for graduates of the Florence Melton Adult Mini-School. Building on the two years of text-based study of Judaism, the Scholars Curriculum focuses on a deeper examination of selected Jewish texts, from the Biblical to the modern. The Scholars Curriculum invites Mini-School graduates to an engagement with Jewish texts that has shaped Jews and Judaism for millennia. Reserve your spot now for this exciting new Melton@Barrack course! Veteran Melton instructor, Dr. Emilie S. Passow, Is the Co-Director of the Certificate Program in Medical Humanities and Associate Teaching Professor in the Judaic Studies Program and the Department of English and Philosophy at Drexel University. She completed her MA and PhD in English Literature with honors from Columbia University. Courses Shiv'im Panim: Seventy Faces of Wisdom Bereshit I Bereshit II Shemot I Shemot II Israeli Literature as a Window to Israeli Society The Holocaust as Reflected in Diaries and Memoirs Jewish Denominations: Addressing the Challenges of Modernity Jews in America: Insiders and Outsiders Beyond Borders: The History of the Arab-Israeli Conflict