The Key to Time:  The cycles of time as keys to the language of Jewish culture.  A literary, historical, philosophical and psychological look at the life cycle, calendar and rites of passage in Jewish culture.

The Key to Place: The cultural meaning of 'places' in Jewish and Israeli space: the city and the desert, homeland and Diaspora, Jerusalem and Tel Aviv, Paradise and the place of G-d, the path and the home, the Temple and the centrality of the Land of Israel.

Circles of Kinship: Family-Community-Nation

This course is devoted to the relationship between the Jewish individual and the society to which he belongs: inter-family relations, the characteristics of the local and immediate community, and the relationship between Israel and other nations and cultures and the nationalism of the Jews as a nation.  The last unit of the course is devoted to Jewish Thought on Nation and Nationalism, Israel vis-à-vis other nations, as perceived by a wide range of Jewish texts.  Special place is given to social, historical and ideological questions relating to the relationship between Jewish communities in the Diaspora and the Jewish in Israel.