Winter Adult Education - Jewish Self-Defense

Join Rabbi Kantor for an 8-Week course on Jewish Self-Defense.  This course will be on Zoom and the link will be provided in your registration email.

This winter we will embark to understand “What does it mean for a peace seeking – justice loving people to stand up and defend themselves on the battlefield?” Through this course of study we will examine questions such as:

• When are we ALLOWED to go to war?
• When are we OBLIGATED to go to war?
• Does it change if we are in the land of Israel or in the diaspora?
• How do we define “the enemy”?
• How are we allowed to act on the battlefield in the midst of war – when the most animalistic urges and tendencies can arise in even the calmest of our people?  

While each session will be a unique session addressing a specific topic – throughout the course we will build a picture of what it means for us, Am Yisrael, to defend our selves in the “rough neighborhood” we seem to find ourselves in.

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Tuesday, January 7 - Jewish Self-Defense in the Bible: The Beginning - Abraham to Joshua

Tuesday, January 14 - Jewish Self-Defense in the Bible: The Temples to the Roman Conquest

Tuesday, January 21 - An Overview of the Jewish Laws of War

Tuesday, January 28 - Jewish Self-Defense in the Diaspora: Europe Through the Holocaust

Tuesday, February 4 - Jewish Self-Defense in the Diaspora: USA - The Purple Gang; Jewish Organizations

Tuesday, February 11 - Israeli Self-Defense: Pre-State to 1967 and USA Jewish Defense and Support

Tuesday, February 25 - Israeli Self-Defense: Intifadas and Lebanon

Tuesday, March 4 - Israeli Self-Defense: October 7th and the Gaza War

Please note: There will be no class on Tuesday, February 18