ISSUES OF DISCUSSION:

1. Israeli Society

1. Lecture 1 -Introduction: The Diversity of Israeli Society
2. Lecture 2 -Spring Semester Course on Israeli Society
3. Lecture 3 -The Origins of Israeli Society: Formative Groups and Ideologies
4. Lecture 4 -The Mass Migration of the 1950s
5. Lecture 5 -Religion and State
6. Lecture 6 -Ethnicity and the Socio-Economic Gap in Israel
7. Lecture 7 -The Territories (Part 1)
8. Lecture 8 -The Territories (Part 2)
9. Lecture 9 -The Role of the Military in Israel

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2. Jerusalem 3000:

   (The History of Jerusalem -- The Stairway to Heaven)l

1. Lecture 1 - Jerusalem: The Stairway to Heaven
2. Lecture 2 - Earliest References
3. Lecture 3 - The First Temple Period - 1
4. Lecture 4 - The First Temple Period - 2
5. Lecture 5 - Return to Zion and the Second Temple
6. Lecture 6 - The Rise of Herod
Lecture 7 - The Destruction of the Second Temple
8. Lecture 8 - Christianity and Islam: Jerusalem in the Middle Ages - 1
9. Lecture 9 - Islam and the Jews: Jerusalem in the Middle Ages - 2
10. Lecture 10 - Modernity Comes to Jerusalem
11. Lecture 11 - Zionism and Jerusalem
12. Lecture 12 - Jerusalem, Symbol of the Future

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3. Talmud

1. Lecture 1: Talmud Online Learning Group
2. Lecture 2:Real-time on-line session in Talmud
3. Lecture 3:Developing our own Torah she-be'al peh for the electronic age
4. Lecture 4:Talmud Online Learning Group
5. Lecture 5:Talmud Online Learning Group
6. Lecture 6:Discussion on Ben Nannos: Doing the wrong thing for the right reason
7. Lecture 7: Two more views on Ben Nannas
8. Lecture 8: Between the letter and the spirit
9. Lecture 9: You shall do what is right and good