WritingThrough the JewishStory

1 Credit · Level: Undergraduate

The Text is Personal: Writing My Story Through the Jewish Story. What does it mean to be in relationship with Jewish texts? How do these texts help us understand and tell our story? In this course, we'll read both short and long form writing by rabbis and authors who use the Torah, Talmud, and other Jewish texts, as a mirror, prism, and filter for how they understand their lives and journeys. Over five sessions we'll study Ilana Kurshan's All the Seas are Ink, Aviya Kushner's The Grammar of God, and sermons from modern rabbis, while writing their own reflections and personal essays using text to tell their story.