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