Adult Education brings this 3 session Hebrew College Tamid course to CBE, with instructor, Yoni Kadden.  Cost is $120.  Financial aid is available. 

Register and pay on the Hebrew College website at this link:  Hebrewcollege.edu/jewish-immigration

Email adulted@bethelohim.org with any questions.  The class will be held in person only at CBE.

ABOUT THE COURSE:
This course explores the history of Jewish immigration to the United States and the evolving relationship between Jewish communities and American society.

Beginning with the early Jewish presence in New Amsterdam, the course examines why America came to be viewed as a “Land of Opportunity” for Jews. It then focuses on the major wave of Eastern European Jewish immigration in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, analyzing the forces that drove migration and the reciprocal impact between Jewish immigrants and American culture, politics, and economy.

The course concludes with an examination of the 1924 immigration restrictions and immigration during the Holocaust highlighting the moral, political, and social debates surrounding open and closed borders.