Jessica Steinberg covers the Sabra scene from south to north and back to the center.
Leah Jordan, 33, of Kansas City, a progressive rabbi who has lived with her English husband in London for nine years and spent her gap year in Jerusalem at the ieshivá, one of the first to register.
He had cleaned his schedule until 1 June, when he would start a new job, and had more than two months off at his home in London, without accounts.
“There was this alchemy of Josh as a wonderful teacher, a core of us who are committed to learning intelligently, and we needed that stability in our lives,” Jordan said. “As torah students, it seemed to me herbal that it was the Torah that was comforting.”
Jordan joined a havruta with Liza Bernstein, a classmate on the east coast of the United States, and they meet 8 overtime hours a week.
“It’s kind of a achievement of my gap year’s dream,” Jordan said. “Now we report for fun, it’s a magical situation.”
Jonathan Dine, 32, a knowledge scientist from Washington, D.C., said it was a golden opportunity to participate in a skills-based course he could pursue because he worked from home during the pandemic.
“There are other people out there that I couldn’t be informed with,” said Dine, whose sister also joined elegance and is her havruta companion. “It’s a little more casual, being informed just for fun.”
What Kulp appreciates about his online course is how easy it is to get 10 other people to access Zoom when everyone was looking for the same thing.
“The text provides an anchor,” said Stephen Arnoff, ceo of the Fuchsberg Center of Conservative Judaism, home of conservative Yeshiva, who has been running all of his online activities until September. “Some wake up at 5:30 a.m. to do so.”
Larry Moss, 64, one of nine students, said he needed as much outdoor time with elegance as he was elegant to prepare.
“There are other wise people in elegance and it’s not easy to keep up with the point of view,” said Moss, a semi-retired corporate lawyer who appreciates the design that gives him elegance in those tumultuous times. “There are young, flexible minds out there.
There is also an innate intimacy in learning, the scholars said, given the small number of other people and the ability to have genuine conversations and ask questions.
Kulp has a WhatsApp organization for academics to send questions, and rarely hits the phone on the day for some of the thorniest topics.
“My fantasy is that it would happen forever,” said Kulp, who also had time to be informed every morning with his own havruta because he doesn’t make it to work. “In a way, it’s the most productive course I’ve given in 25 years because other people need to be there.”