Post-Pesach Program for Shana Bet Men

This course examines the intersection of Judaism and public policy in three ways:
1. Jewish approach to public policy issues
2. How public policy affects the Jewish community
3. Internal application of public policy to Jewish community institutions and organizations

This course satisfy the Syms Jewish Values requirement

The objectives of this course are to provide an overview of (i) algebra, (ii) functions including exponential and logarithmic functions, (iii) their application to business through the study of the time value of money, and an introduction to the application of calculus and optimization to business.

This course satisfies the Syms Quantitative requirement

This course introduces the use of Excel in business and personal settings, teaching students to solve problems, design flexible solutions, and independently develop advanced skills, including leveraging AI tools.

This course is a prerequisite for many Syms core classes

The environment of international business. Problems, policies, and operations of multinational corporations, with a focus on global logistics and production planning, alternative forms of ownership, and methods of control.

This course satisfies the Syms MAN/MAR requirement

The fundamentals of economic analysis with applications. Microeconomic supply and demand analysis, externalities and public goods, competition and monopoly, effects of taxation; macroeconomics topics including measurement of GDP and inflation, money, finance, and long-term growth.

This course satisfies a HBSI requirement

This course explores literature about diaspora: “as the abandonment of home, whether voluntary or enforced, and a search for a new home, new opportunities, and new beginnings, even as the home of the past lingers in the imagination, in memory, and in desire. The twenty first century has been marked by massive and often chaotic displacements of peoples seeking refuge from violence, famine, and persecution in their homelands or opportunities for economic survival in an increasingly globalized and politically turbulent world. The twentieth century, the century of totalitarianism and genocide, had already seen seismic shifts in populations fleeing ethnic cleansing, political persecution, and specific events such as WWI and WWII, the Holocaust African decolonization, the Indian partition, various regime changes, and nation building. Literature and film in the twentieth and twenty first centuries have recorded the histories and fictionalizations of such diasporic experiences. The two oldest and far reaching global diasporas have been the Jewish and the African diasporas. Both were painful, both produced flowering cultural expression, and both continue to develop, centuries later, to this day.

This course satisfies the COWC requirement

Close reading/analysis of short works by Saul Bellow, Bernard Malamud, Philip Roth and Grace Paley.  

This course satisfies the INTC requirement

The medieval period, lasting approximately from 550-1500 of the Common Era, was one of the most formative times for the Jewish people. Although often termed the Dark Ages in general history, traditional Jews know it as the period of the Gaonim and the Rishonim respectively. This was the age when some of the greatest communities and luminaires flourished and set down the ideas and works that determined how the Torah, Talmud, Halakha (Jewish Law), Kabbalah/Jewish mysticism, and Jewish philosophy are understood and studied until today. The medieval period also witnessed some of the worst and impactful persecutions as the Jewish minority navigated living under both Christian and Muslim rule and the physical, material, and spiritual/theological challenges they experienced. This course will review some of the major events and trends in Jewish history and Jewish thought that defined this period.

Each student will be placed in the appropriate shiur based on his level, background, and interest.

We are also offering a shiur only option. Students will be learning and not taking any academic classes.