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Weekly class lectures for Baltimore Hebrew Institute's course on Israel and Zionism.
January 7, 2015, Mizrachi (Sephardi) immigrants in an Ashkenazic run state
Ashkenazi romantic and patronizing attitudes toward Mizrachim
Waves of immigration
Mizrachi music as Israeli culture
December 17, Ingathering of the exiles; post-Holocaust dreams and realities
Holocaust survivors in Israel
German reparations
New historians and the failure of rescue during the Holocaust
Eichmann on trial
The meaning of Yad Vashem
Institution Building
Ben Gurion's malachtiyut: the state comes before everything
Challenges of the Supreme Court
Rabbanoot (rabbinate): good or bad for the Jews?
Ministry of Education
Law of Return and Who is a Jew?
Who is a Jew defined
Judaism (Orthodox and non-Orthodox) in the Jewish state
The Law of Return; The Brother Daniel case
The conversion crises (1988; 1997-98)
November 19 Status Quo and modus vivendi
Religion in Israel's early days
The status quo (religious) agreement
Ben-Gurion's understanding of the Diaspora
November 12, Building a state in the 1950s
Armistice with Arab countries (Rhodes Talks)
Egyptian Jew spy scandal
Sinai War
Building relationship with France
The struggle for statehood (1947 - 1948)
UN recognition and the start of war
Resettling refugees (Holocaust survivors amidst new conflict)
Weapons smuggling and the role of American Jews
The bitter legacy of the British
