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1 OFFICE OF ONLINE AND DISTANCE LEARNING 7605 Old York Road, Melrose Park, PA x x115 FAX Spring 2015 Online Course Descriptions Current Matriculated students must contact their advisor to register. Non-matriculated students may register by completing the Non-Matriculated Registration form which can be downloaded from Classes run from January 13th to May 4th unless otherwise indicated. All classes are 3 credits unless otherwise indicated. JEWISH STUDIES Hebrew-Mechina Hebrew 10300H-OL Rivka Markovitz, M.Ed. No books required for purchase just internet access for Mechina. However, since we are aware that many Mechina students will be enrolling in Hebrew I later in the semester, please refer to the materials listed for that class below. 1. You are required to purchase a headset for the web conferences. A good, relatively inexpensive option is the Everyman headset available from Amazon.com for $27.99: /dp/B002YHAFF2/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid= &sr=8-1&keywords=everyman+headset Participating in the web conferences without a headset will disturb instructor and students. Please make sure to turn off your speakers during the web conferences. 2. Add Hebrew language function to your computer: Go to the control panel. Go to Regional and Language Options: Scroll down to Hebrew and click OK. Good Luck! Now you can type in Hebrew and English. 3. Please download the audio recording software from 4. A webcam will also be useful for the weekly web conferences, but not absolutely required. Hebrew I: Beginners Hebrew 10301H-OL Rivka Markovitz, M. Ed. Here is a list of required books and software for Hebrew online: 1. Textbook Ben-Ami, Tsipi, Ulpan Ivrit.. Prolog (2011) ISBN: Estimated Cost: $40 Available through There is also an iphone app for this book: 2. You are required to purchase a headset for the web conferences. Participating in the web conferences without a headset will disturb instructor and students. Please make sure to turn off your speakers during the web conferences.

2 3. Add Hebrew language function to your computer: Go to the control panel. Go to Regional and Language Options: Scroll down to Hebrew and click OK. Good Luck! Now you can type in Hebrew and English. 4. Please download the audio recording software from 5 A webcam will also be useful for the weekly web conferences, but not absolutely required. 6. If you are just learning to read the alphabet or need a refresher please consider enrolling in the Mechinah class in late December, as this class assumes knowledge of decoding skills. Hebrew II: Advanced Beginners Hebrew 10302H-OL Rivka Markovitz, M. Ed. 1. Textbook Ben-Ami, Tsipi, Ulpan Ivrit.. Prolog (2011) ISBN: Estimated Cost: $40 Available through There is also an iphone app for this book: 2.You are required to purchase a headset for the web conferences. A good, relatively inexpensive option is the Everyman headset available from Amazon.com for $27.99: Everyman-Headset-Microphone-TALK- 5115/dp/B002YHAFF2/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid= &sr=8-1&keywords=everyman+headset Participating in the web conferences without a headset will disturb instructor and students. Please make sure to turn off your speakers during the web conferences. 1. Add Hebrew language function to your computer: Go to the control panel. Go to Regional and Language Options: Scroll down to Hebrew and click OK. Good Luck! Now you can type in Hebrew and English. 2. Please download the audio recording software from Hebrew III: Intermediate Hebrew 30303H-OL Danielle Sharon, Ph.D. 1) עברית מן ההתחלה חלק ב: Textbook (Hebrew from Scratch, Part II) by Shlomit Chayat, Sara Israeli, and Hilla Kobliner, Academon The Hebrew University Students Printing and Publishing House, Jerusalem The text is accompanied by audio CD s (See below). ISBN: B000J3OQB2 Estimated Cost: $57 ER&pf_rd_s=auto-no-results-center- 1&pf_rd_r=1ET07895PSM5HVN7ZPV7&pf_rd_t=301&pf_rd_p= &pf_rd_i=%D7%A2%D7%91 %D7%A8%D7%99%D7%AA%20%D7%9E%D7%9F%20%D7%94%D7%94%D7%AA%D7%97%D7%9C %D7%94 2)Audio CD s for עברית מן ההתחלה חלק ב (Hebrew from Scratch, Part I) by Shlomit Chayat, Sara Israeli, and Hilla Kobliner, Academon The Hebrew University Students Printing and Publishing House, Jerusalem 2007.

3 Part/dp/B000J3OQBC/ref=pd_sim_b_2?ie=UTF8&refRID=1V6KY7ETS562RGW8GA3F 3)Subscription to the Israeli newspaper for new immigrants, Yanshoof. 4) You are required to purchase a headset for the web conferences. A relatively inexpensive headset is the Freetalk Everyman headset, available from Amazon for around $30. 5) Hebrew word processing software is not absolutely required for this class, but you will need to be able to type in Hebrew in the Forums, so you may find it easier to create documents and then cut and paste them into the website. See the information listed above in Hebrew I and II about software, keyboard stickers, and adjusting the language options on your computer if needed. Tragedy and Hope in the Book of Jeremiah Bible OL Richard Lederman, Ph.D. Stulman, Louis, Jeremiah, Abingdon Old Testament Commentaries, Nashville: Abingdon Press, 2005, ISBN: Estimated Cost: $40 Berlin, Adele and Marc Zvi Brettler (eds.) The Jewish Study Bible, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2004, ISBN: Estimated Cost: $20 (hard cover; also available in paperback). Reading will include the biblical passages and the editors notes. Two chapters from Brettler, Marc Zvi, How to Read the Jewish Bible, as well as articles for written assignments and final papers will be scanned and uploaded onto the Moodle course site. The Jewish Family: Institution in Transition Sociology OL Marsha Friedman, Ph.D. Double or Nothing? Jewish Families and Mixed Marriage. Sylvia Barack Fishman, Hanover, NH, Brandeis University Press 2004 ISBN-13: Estimated Cost: $12 Beyond Patriarchy.Lawrence H. Fuchs. Brandeis University Press, Hanover, NH ISBN-13: Estimated Cost: $7 The History of Modern Israel History OL/ /Political Science OL Katherine Aron-Beller, Ph.D. Grossman, David. To the End of the Land. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, ISBN: Estimated Cost: $16 Most recommended Israeli films appear in the course website. Here s one that you might want to look for in advance: Waltz with Bashir (Ari Folman, 2009) (87 minutes) is available for streaming on Amazon.com instant video for $12.99HD and $9.99 SD or by DVD through Netflix. Jewish and Christian Interpretations of the Bible Bible OL/Thought OL Ruth Sandberg, Ph.D. The Catholic Study Bible 2 nd edition, eds. Donald Senior and John J. Collins. Oxford University Press, ISBN-13: Estimated Cost: $24

4 The Jewish Study Bible, edited by Adele Berlin (Oxford University Press, 2003), ISBN-13: Estimated Cost: $27 All other materials will be available online. Judaism's Encounter with Modernity Thought OL Michael Steinlauf, Ph.D. Sholem Aleichem, Tevye the Dairyman and the Railroad Stories (Shocken) ISBN: Estimated Cost: $14 Lloyd Gartner, History of the Jews in Modern Times ISBN: Estimated Cost: $32 Franz Kafka, The Trial (Schocken) ISBN: Estimated Cost: $8 Paul Mendes-Flohr and Jehuda Reinharz, eds., The Jew in the Modern World, 3 rd edition, 2010, ISBN-13: Estimated Cost: $60 Hilary L. Rubinstein et al., eds., The Jews in the Modern World ISBN: Estimated Cost: Twenty-first Century Jewish Communal Life in the Diaspora Sociology OL/Political Science OL Rela Mintz Geffen, Ph.D. Troen, S. Ilan. Jewish Centers and Peripheries: Europe Between America and Israel Fifty Years After World War II. New Brunswick, N.J.: Transaction Publishers, ISBN: Estimated Cost: $25 used, $70 new Elazar, Daniel J. People and Polity: The Organizational Dynamics of World Jewry. Detroit, Michigan: Wayne State University Press, ISBN: Estimated Cost: $9 Sages, Saints, and Sinners Thought OL Ruth Sandberg, Ph.D. There are no required texts to be purchased for this course. All readings will be available online. Liturgy of the Weekday Service Rabbinics OL Saul Wachs, Ph.D. Hoffman, Lawrence.My People s Prayerbook. Vols. 1-6 and 9. Vol. 1 ISBN: Estimated Cost: $27

5 Vol 2 ISBN: X Estimated Cost: $27 Vol 3 ISBN: Estimated Cost: $27 Vol 4 ISBN: Estimated Cost: $27 Vol 5 ISBN: Estimated Cost: $22 Vol 6 ISBN: Estimated Cost: $27 Vol 9 ISBN: Estimated Cost: $22 Copy of the Tenakh in Hebrew and English Authorized Daily Prayerbook of the United Hebrew Congregations of the Commonwealth, ed. Jonathan Sacks. Collins(div. of Harper-Collins). London: ( paperback pocket edition is fine) ISBN: Estimated Cost: $16 FOR THOSE WHO LACK A BASIC KNOWLEDGE OF THE STRUCTURE OF THE SIDDUR, THE FOLLOWING IS RECOMMENDED: Steven M Brown, Higher and Higher ISBN: B000ZMFD7S Estimated Cost: $34 For those who wish to engage the material in greater depth, the following are recommended: B.S.Jacobson "The Weekday Siddur,"(The original Hebrew version is entitled, Netiv Binah, vol.i) ISBN: B0087V0FB8 Estimated Cost: $129 Norman Lamm, The Shema: Spirituality and Law in Judaism ISBN: Estimated Cost: $10 HOLOCAUST AND GENOCIDE STUDIES America's Response to the Holocaust History OL Reena Sigman Friedman, Ph.D. Robert H. Abzug, America Views the Holocaust : A Brief Documentary History (paperback)(boston: Bedford/St. Martin s, 1999). ISBN: Estimated Cost: $9 used, $90 new Richard Breitman and Allan Lichtman, FDR and the Jews (Cambridge, Mass.: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2013). ISBN: Estimated Cost: $21 Henry Feingold, Bearing Witness: How America and its Jews Responded to the Holocaust (Syracuse, New York: Syracuse University Press, 1995). (paperback) ISBN: Estimated Cost: $10

6 David S. Wyman, Paper Walls: America and the Refugee Crisis, (Amherst, Mass.: University of Massachusetts Press, 1968). ISBN: Estimated Cost: $20 David S. Wyman, The Abandonment of the Jews: America and the Holocaust, (New York: Pantheon Books, 1984). ISBN: Estimated Cost: $1 America and the Holocaust: Deceit and Indifference (PBS Video, minutes) (These texts can be purchased from Amazon.com or any other retailer. Used copies should be available in most cases. *Instructions will be provided later in the course regarding acquiring the America and the Holocaust video.) Holocaust Denial and Abuse History OL Pamela L. Herbst, M.A. Gerstenfeld, Manfred, The Abuse of Holocaust Memory: Distortions and Responses (Jerusalem: Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs/Anti-Defamation League, 2009). ISBN-13: Estimated Cost: $24 Lipstadt, Deborah, Denying the Holocaust: The Growing Assault on Truth and Memory (New York: Plume, 1994). ISBN-13: Estimated Cost: $14 Shermer, Michael, and Alex Grobman, Denying History: Who Says the Holocaust Never Happened and Why Do They Say It? (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2009). ISBN-13: Estimated Cost: $26 Rosenfeld, Alvin H, The End Of The Holocaust, (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2011). ISBN-13: Estimated Cost: $22 Dalton, Thomas Ph.D, Debating the Holocaust, A New Look At Both Sides, (New York: Theses and Dissertations Press, 2009). ISBN-13: Estimated Cost: $28 Comparative Genocide History 40557A-OL Polly Zavadivker, Ph.D. The Specter of Genocide: Mass Murder in Historical Perspective, eds. Robert Gellately and Ben Kiernan (Cambridge University Press, 2003). ISBN-13: Estimated Cost: $21 Purchase online at Amazon Abebooks, or through the Cambridge University Press website The Holocaust and Other Genocides: An Introduction, eds. Barbara Boender and Wichert ten Have (Amsterdam University Press, 2012). ISBN-13: Estimated Cost: $18

7 Download for free on the NIOD website: (e-isbn ) Print copies can be ordered at Amazon, Abebooks, or through the University of Chicago Press website: Wendy Lower, Nazi Empire Building and the Holocaust in Ukraine (University of North Carolina Press, 2005) ISBN: Estimated Cost: $25 Norman Naimark, Fires of Hatred: Ethnic Cleansing in Twentieth-Century Europe (Harvard University Press, 2001) ISBN: Estimated Cost: $23 Teaching the Holocaust History OL Christine E. Schmidt, Ph.D. Debórah Dwork and Robert Jan van Pelt. Holocaust: A History. Norton, ISBN: Estimated Cost: $14 Excerpts from Facing History and Ourselves publications (Available to download for free at after creating a free account), in particular The Holocaust and Human Behavior, available as a free download ( or for purchase ($25.00) from the Facing History website. Other essay, article and online selections made available throughout the course, including unpublished resources. Recommended Books [but NOT required]: 4.) Simone Schweber and Debbie Findling. Teaching about the Holocaust. Los Angeles: Torah Aura Productions, Available for purchase at ISBN-13: Estimated Cost: $31 5.) Samuel Totten and Stephen Feinberg. Teaching and Studying the Holocaust. Boston: Allyn and Bacon, Available for purchase at We will be using several excerpts from this book, but students may find it useful in its entirety as a reference. ISBN-13: Estimated Cost: $46 Before Hitler: East European Jewish Civilization History OL Michael Steinlauf, Ph.D. Gershon Hundert, Jews in Poland-Lithuania in the Eighteenth Century: A Genealogy of Modernity ISBN: Estimated Cost: $50 Paul Mendes-Flohr and Jehuda Reinharz, eds., The Jew in the Modern World, 3 rd edition, 2010, ISBN-13: Estimated Cost: $25 Lucy Dawidowicz, ed., The Golden Tradition: Jewish Life and Thought in Eastern Europe ISBN: Estimated Cost: $12

8 Ezra Mendelsohn, The Jews of East-Central Europe Between the Two World Wars ISBN: Estimated Cost: $25 Ruth Gruber, Virtually Jewish: Reinventing Jewish Culture in Europe ISBN: Estimated Cost: $45 Antony Polonsky, The Jews in Poland and Russia: A Short History ISBN-13: Estimated Cost: $37 JEWISH EDUCATON Introduction to the Curriculum of the Jewish School Education OL Joshua Gutoff, Ed.D Goodman, R. L. Flexner, P.A., Bloomberg, L.D. (2008) What We Now Know About Jewish Education. Los Angeles: Torah Aura. (torahaura.com) ISBN: Estimated Cost: $39 Hale, J. A. (2008). A guide to curriculum mapping: Planning, implementing, and sustaining the process.thousand Oaks, CA: Corwin Press. ISBN: Estimated Cost: $36 Tyler, R.W. (1949. Revised Edition: 2013) Basic Principles of Curriculum and Instruction Chicago: U. Chicago Press. ISBN: X Estimated Cost: $11 Note: Students who are not familiar with Wiggins, G. and McTighe, J. (2005), Understanding by Design Alexandria, VA: ASCD are strongly urged to read it. ISBN: Estimated Cost: $27 Technology and the Future of Jewish Education Education 40208B/70208B Deborah Nagler, M.A.J.Ed., EMDTMS Graff, G. (2008). And you shall teach them diligently: a concise history of Jewish education in the United States. New York, NY: Jewish Theological Seminary ISBN-13: Estimated Cost: $24 Solomon, G. (2010). Web 2.0 how to for educators: The indispensable companion to Web 2.0 new tools, new schools. Washington, DC: International Society for Technology in Education ISBN-13: Estimated Cost: $15 Tapscott, D. (2009). Grown up digital. New York: McGraw Hill ISBN-13: Estimated Cost: $19 Additional reading material, web-pages and videos to be included in the Moodle course.

9 Executive Skills: Managing Material Resources Education OL Gloria Becker, Ed.D. This House We Build: Lessons for Healthy Synagogues and the People who Dwell There Bookman and Kahn, The Alban Institute ISBN-13: Estimated Cost: $18 School Leadership that Works: From Research to Results Marzano, Walters, & McNulty, ASCD ISBN: Estimated Cost: $20 Leadership & Sustainability: System Thinkers in Action Fullan, Corwin Press ISBN: X Estimated Cost: $23 Music in Jewish Education Jewish Education OL/Jewish Music OL Marsha Bryan Edelman, Ed.D. All required readings will be posted online, but a recommended bibliography will be provided as part of the course. JEWISH COMMUNAL SERVICE AND NONPROFIT MANAGEMENT Twenty-first Century Jewish Communal Life in the Diaspora Sociology OL/Political Science OL Rela Mintz Geffen, Ph.D. Troen, S. Ilan. Jewish Centers and Peripheries: Europe Between America and Israel Fifty Years After World War II. New Brunswick, N.J.: Transaction Publishers, ISBN: Estimated Cost: $25 Elazar, Daniel J. People and Polity: The Organizational Dynamics of World Jewry. Detroit, Michigan: Wayne State University Press, ISBN: Estimated Cost: $7 The Jewish Family: Institution in Transition Sociology OL Marsha Friedman, Ph.D. Double or Nothing? Jewish Families and Mixed Marriage. Sylvia Barack Fishman, Hanover, NH, Brandeis University Press 2004 ISBN: Estimated Cost: $13 Beyond Patriarchy.Lawrence H. Fuchs. Brandeis University Press, Hanover, NH ISBN: Estimated Cost: $12

10 Technology and the Future of Jewish Education Education 40208B/70208B Deborah Nagler, M.A.J.Ed., EMDTMS Graff, G. (2008). And you shall teach them diligently: a concise history of Jewish education in the United States. New York, NY: Jewish Theological Seminary ISBN-13: Estimated Cost: $24 Solomon, G. (2010). Web 2.0 how to for educators: The indispensable companion to Web 2.0 new tools, new schools. Washington, DC: International Society for Technology in Education ISBN-13: Estimated Cost: $15 Tapscott, D. (2009). Grown up digital. New York: McGraw Hill ISBN-13: Estimated Cost: $19 Additional reading material, web-pages and videos to be included in the Moodle course. Executive Skills: Managing Material Resources Education OL Gloria Becker, Ed.D. This House We Build: Lessons for Healthy Synagogues and the People who Dwell There Bookman and Kahn, The Alban Institute ISBN-13: Estimated Cost: $18 School Leadership that Works: From Research to Results Marzano, Walters, & McNulty, ASCD ISBN: Estimated Cost: $20 Leadership & Sustainability: System Thinkers in Action Fullan, Corwin Press ISBN: X Estimated Cost: $23