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RELI 3850: God in Israel RELI 3850: Religion in Historical and Contemporary Contexts in the ‘Holy Land’ RELI 5850: Religion and Public Life in the ‘Holy Land’ CARLETON UNIVERSITY May 2-22, 2018 COLLEGE OF THE HUMANITIES RELIGION PROGRAM Dr. Deidre Butler Public course web site for info and uploading blogs about the course [email protected] www.carleton.ca/studyisrael Official Course Facebook page: public fb page for friends and families to see where we are going. Post photos, videos, tweet about the course. https://www.facebook.com/studyisraelwithZC CU Learn site for readings and grades Description 3850: This third-year travel course will survey religious history through geographical exploration of sites in what was historically called the “Holy Land”: We will explore biblical Israel at the Temple Mount; the origins of Christianity out of Judaism in the Galilee and in Jerusalem; historical and contemporary Islam at the Temple Mount and in Nazareth; Second Temple Judaism at Qumran and Masada; Rabbinic Judaism in ancient synagogues and in a special exhibit at the Israel Museum; the Crusades at the ruins of a Crusader fortress; Jewish mysticism in 17th century Safed; the Holocaust at Yad Vashem; modern Israel at the Knesset, a kibbutz, the Baha’i Temple in Haifa, and the beaches of Tel Aviv as well as many other sites of significance to the study of Religion. Description 5850: This graduate seminar will critically engage the theme of Religion and Public life through the geographical exploration of key sites in what was historically known as the “Holy Land” and which continues to be the focus of contemporary religious debates. Site visits highlight the intersection of religion and the social and political in both historical and contemporary perspectives. Required Texts 3850/5850: Required readings This travel course includes travel in Israel from May 3-22 with course prepare you for class lectures, discussions and requirements beginning before travel. site visits. Always read the required text prior to the site visit. Course Requirements: 3850/5850: • Troen, S. Ilan, and Rachel Fish. 30% Participation (5850: includes Personalized Reading List) Essential Israel essays for the 21st Choose two of the following three assignments century. Bloomington: Indiana A: 35% Journaling Unviversity Press. 2017. B: 35% Teaching and Sharing: Blogs, site presentation, teaching • Meyers, Eric M. Alexander to videos Constantine archaeology of the land C: 35% Research Paper of the Bible. New Haven: Yale University Press. 2014. see details below for level specific expectations • Additional online readings linked through the CU Learn web site 5850 MA students must develop their own customized required readings according to their areas of interest. Please speak to the Professor well in advance of travel to confirm personalized reading list. The course outline shows TBD on most dates to allow this customization. YOUR PROFESSOR: As the Jewish Studies specialist of the Religion Program, Professor Deidre Butler brings together her general expertise in Jewish Studies and Religion with an emphasis on contemporary Jewish life, modern Jewish thought, Holocaust, and gender and sexuality. NOTE: Other professors from other participating universities will be added here as details are finalized. SUPPORT: Your travel agent: Eva Stelzer. [email protected] Tel: 514-497-1960, 888-384-2669, 514-344-8888. All bookings through Garth Allen Marksted Travel Technical support for uploading videos or blogs: TBA available before and while we are in Israel COURSE REQUIREMENTS: This travel course includes travel in Israel from May 2-18 with course requirements beginning before travel. Pre-Course meetings in Ottawa for Carleton and Ottawa U participants include: 1. Israel Culture Night: Israeli Food and Culture with Representatives of the Israeli Embassy. Legal information by Tony Lackey. TBD 2. Carol Meyers, “Archeology in the Holy Land”, March 18, 7 p.m., Carleton University, Paterson Hall 303. 3. Public Lecture on Israel course related topic followed by discussion for course participants only. Date, time, location TBA 4. Course meeting with local respondent discussing her experience as a teenager with the Palmach and the siege of Jerusalem. Final travel discussions. Additional programming to add to schedule as we get closer to travel: Confirmed: Date TBA: Dr. Dani Kranz Dani Kranz is the director of Two Foxes Consulting and senior research fellow at Bergische University Wuppertal, Germany. Trained in anthropology, social psychology and history, her areas of expertise cover migration, ethnicity and law. Within these intersecting fields, she has worked issues of interfamilies and interchildren, citizenship and intergenerational transmission in Israel and Germany. Her latest work concerns the trialectic between Jews, Muslims, and Christians in Germany as well as the perceptions of Israeli Jewish and Palestinian/Arab Muslims migrants and the Middle East Conflict. Visit: Temple Mount Topic: Jerusalem (Tel Aviv or Hebrew U) Topic: Indian Jewish community at Nevatim in Israel: Contact: Ruth Greenfield. Topic: Bahai: contact Geoff Kellowe Topic: Druze community (Tel Aviv or Hebrew U) Topic: Qmran lecture (Tel Aviv U or Hebrew U) Topic: A Discussion with Havruta’s Daniel Jonas (Orthodox LGTBQ community) Contact: Daniel Jonas, [email protected] Topic: Jewish Religion and Identity in the State of Israel. Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Akiva Tor, Head of the Bureau for World Jewish Affairs and World Religion. Topic: Islam & Muslim community in Israel (Tel Aviv U or Hebrew U) Topic: Steven Fine, Yeshiva University, Arch of Titus / Archeology Topic: Ethiopian-Israelis: Preserving Ethiopian Culture in Israel. Atachlit, Beta Yisrael village in Kiryat Gat Contact: Shalev Maharat, [email protected] Date & travel schedule Day 1: Wednesday, May 2, 2018 DEPARTURE May 2, 2018: Ottawa to Toronto: Flight 453 Departure YOW at 1300 Arrive YYZ 1404 May 2, 2018 Toronto to Tel Aviv Flight 84 Departure YYZ 1640 Arrive TLV 1005 May 3 Day 2: Thursday May 3 Arrive Tel Aviv 10:05 am Smile service upon arrival P.M. Group Lunch stop (Paid for by ZC –one falafel and one drink per person) Transfer to Hotel in Tel Aviv Settle in. TBD: Orientation, and intro to the course in Israel. TBD: Welcome group dinner at hotel Accommodations: Tel Aviv (1) Debora Hotel Tel Aviv – May 3-7 .2018 Date & travel schedule Topics and review readings Topics and review readings 3850 5850 (in addition to 3850 readings) Review: EI Chapter 2, 3, 8, Review: EI Chap 10 DAY 3: FRIDAY MAY 4, 2018 Recommended: Views of the Jewish A.M.: Breakfast at the hotel. State and the Diaspora http://www.pewforum.org/2016/03/ Diaspora Museum: http://www.bh.org.il/ 08/views-of-the-jewish-state-and- the-diaspora/ Bus to Old Jaffa: Lunch on your own in Old Jaffa PM: As time permits, seminar organized by Dr. Butler: Shabbat in Israel Shabbat service on the Tel Aviv beach led by student / lay leader Sue Potechin with talk on progressive. Dinner arranged by ZC Accommodations: Tel Aviv Hotel (2) (B, D) DAY 4 - SATURDAY MAY 5, 2018 Review: How the Six Day War Changed Read one: Religion in Israel Ben-Rafael, Eliezer. "The Faces of Day of rest, breakfast at hotel, https://www.theatlantic.com/internatio Religiosity in Israel: Cleavages Or lunch and dinner on your own, nal/archive/2017/06/how-the-six-day- Continuum?" Israel Studies 13, no. 3 recommendations will be provided. war-changed-religion/528981/ (2008): 89-113. Recover from jet lag. Check out the beach http://search.proquest.com/docview Review: EI: Chap. 11: “Jewishness in /195270039?accountid=9894. Evening: Course resumes Israel: Israel as a Jewish State” 262-279 Sunset Havdalah service with IDF Katz, Elihu, Hanna Levinsohn, and conversion teachers followed by evening Review: EI: Chap. 12: “Contemporary Shlomit Levy. "The Many Faces of seminar led by Dr. Butler. Christianity and Israel” 280-310 Jewishness in Israel." In Jews in Israel: Contemporary Social and Cultural Recommended: Sinclair, Daniel. Patterns, edited by Uzi Rebhun and Accommodations: Tel Aviv (3) “Halakhah and Israel.” In Modern Chaim I. Waxman, Hanover, Lebanon, (B, D) Judaism: An Oxford Guide, edited by NH: Brandeis University Press, 2004. Nicolas de Lange and Miri Freud-Kandel, 265-284. 352-362. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005. DAY 5 -SUNDAY MAY 6, 2018 Review: EI Chap. 4 8 Recommended: EI Chap 5-6 Recommended for interest in A.M. Islam/gender: Rabho, Laila Abed. Lecture organized by Dr. Butler: Topic “Problems No Longer Solved over a Religion and State in Israel Cup of Coffee: Arab Women Take Complaints to the West Jerusalem Palmach Museum Muslim Court.” Journal of Women of the Middle East and the Islamic Lunch on your own World 10 (2012), 113-126. P.M. Review: Key findings Religion and Neve Shalom (Oasis of Peace) (and if time Politics in Israel permits Bedouin visit) http://www.pewresearch.org/fact- tank/2016/03/08/key-findings- Return to Tel Aviv religion-politics-israel/ Dinner on your own Accommodations: Tel Aviv (4) (B) DAY 6 - MONDAY, MAY 7, 2018 Tel Maresha TBD 8 Review: AtC Chapter 2 Recommended: For overview of the site Breakfast at hotel especially see section on biblical period and Hasmonean A.M. http://www.biblewalks.com/Sites/Mares Entrance to Beit Govrin National Park ha.html Archeological Dig at Tel Maresha P.M. Box lunch will be provided Tel Lachish Return to Jerusalem Dinner on your own Accommodations: Caesar Jerusalem, Jerusalem (1) (B, BoxL) DAY 7 - TUESDAY, MAY 8, 2018 Historical overview of Jerusalem as a city: TBD A.M. Review: Explore this interactive site which provides a brief overview of Holocaust: Read one: 08:30-09:30 Jerusalem by period: Dalia Ofer. "The Past That Does Not Mt. of Olives: historical overview of http://www.bu.edu/mzank/Jerusalem/ Pass: Israelis and Holocaust Jerusalem as a city Memory." Israel Studies 14, no.
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