![]() Colorful ProfilesShort Stories of Extraordinary Lives from Jewish History Starts May 7th
Four Wednesdays Offered in person at Chabad and online Tuition (textbook included)
Individual: $145 Scholarships Available -------------------------------------------------- Sponsorship Opportunities Course $550 | Scholarship $145 | Lesson $136 | Snack $118
Course sponsored (to date) by: Sue Ann Arnall, Connie Bachman in loving memory of Gary Bachman, ![]() ![]() Lesson One (May 7th) A Roman prince outwits his uncle to study Torah, an Italian priest studies his way to a new life, and a Polish noble meets an old Jew studying Talmud on a Paris park bench - see their journey to Judaism and what came next. ![]() Lesson Two (May 14th) Spain's top Torah scholar leads a Muslim Army, an Amsterdam rabbi with a printshop talks England into readmitting Jews, and a rabbi teaches a Catholic scholar and saves Central Europe's Jewish books - how did they integrate Judaism into their influence? ![]() Lesson Three (May 21st) A businesswoman saves thousands from the Inquisition and rebuilds Jewish life across the Mediterranean, and a female Torah scholar shapes Halachic discourse while raising a family, feeding students, and caring for the sick - see the secret ways women shaped Jewish history. ![]() Lesson Four (May 28th) Four rabbis are captured by 10th-century pirates, Germany's foremost Jewish leader is held for ransom, and thousands of East European Jews languish in Ottoman slave markets - how did Jewish communities respond? |
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