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New JLI Course Starting: To Be a Jew

This new course will give you the opportunity to make sense of your personal Jewishness; it will help you overcome perceived incompatibilities between Judaism and modern society; and it will provide you with the clarity and conviction to pass on a legacy of Jewish pride to the next generation.

LESSON 1: ONCE A JEW, FOREVER A JEW Examine what happened when the course of the Jews intersected with the elemental force that was Napoleon Bonaparte. His offer to free the Jews of age old discriminatory laws required the Jewish people to redefine their own identity and forced them to pledge allegiance to him as the emperor and to the state that he embodied before all else. Napoleon’s challenge is ongoing. Who are we? Is our Jewish identity our primary sense of who we are, or do we define ourselves by other things that we believe to be more significant than being Jewish?

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