A Reform View of Israel

Here are parts of the itinerary of the 4th annual Israel Kallah program of the
URJ:-

BUILDING THE JEWISH STATE: POLITICAL AND CULTURAL PERSPECTIVES

Thursday Introduction

21:00 - 22:30 Reform Judaism's Attitudes to Jewish Sovereignty

Friday: Religious Jews in Urban Communities

10:30 am - 12:30 pm Not Everyone Loved Eliezer Ben Yehuda: The Founder of Modern Hebrew
2:00 - 3:30 pm The Desperate Search for Safety: Leaving the Old City
21:00 - 22:00 Evening Program - Nostalgia for A Religious Past

Shabbat:

18:30 - 20:00 Text Study: Not Loving Ones Neighbor: Jewish Ethnic and Religious Identity

Sunday: Searching for Sovereignty

10:00 am - 12:00 pm Rothschild Philanthropy and Early Jewish Settlements (to 1904)
8:00 - 9:30 pm A text study - Life in Eretz Israel(1905-1923)-

Monday Tel-Chai & The Story of the Second Aliyah - Fun in the Chatzbani.

9:00 - 10:30 am Jewish Military Responses in a Conflict Zone - Visit Chatzar Tel-Chai,
10:30 - 11:30 am Study session on the social, cultural and ideological nature of the early pioneers
8:00 - 9:30 pm Text Study of the Sobol's Dramatic Play: "The Night of the Twenty"

Wednesday: On the Way to a Sovereign Jewish State: 1945-1948
10:00 - 11:30 Visit the Museum of the Mapilim (World War II Refugees arriving illegally to the shores of Palestine)
2:15 - 3:45 Tour the Palmach Museum

Thursday: Tel Aviv-The First Modern Hebrew City

Friday One Hundred Years of Tel Aviv

8:30 - 10:45 Trumpledor Cemetary: The Dead Tell it All

Shabbat In Tel Aviv
9:30 - 11:00 Creative Shabbat Shacharit on the beach
11:15 - 1:00 Neve Tzedek

Authors:
Ahad Ha’am
AD Gordon
Joseph Brenner
Burdochefsky
Berl Katzelnelson

Besides the spelling typo (it's Berdichevsky but that's quibbling), notice that in dealing with the "military" aspect, no Irgun, Lechi, Betar. No Jabotinsky. That's called censoring your texts.

But, this is not a learning experience rather an ideological seminar.

One for $2000.