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if you sign up before
September 1, 1994
University site in
Israel.
If you're ready to
shell our a few.
shekels — about $360 per course
— you can take advantage of the
school's well-organized, easy-to-use
virtual courses. With the next ses-
sion set to begin in October, the
university cautions that this is the

time to reserve your place.
Some course offerings: The Judean
Desert Scrolls; Jerusalem Throughout -
the Ages; Music in Traditional Jewish
Culture and Society; War and Peace in
the Bible; and The Yearly Cycle.
Once you pay up, each course pro-
vides you with a personal homepage
to guide your study. Multi-media
offerings are woven in with the text
provided by leading Bar-Ilan scholars.
Best of all, the Bar-Ilan folks say
credits earned through their online
university may be transferable to other
institutions of higher learning.
Each course carries three or four
credit hours; to get your four credits,
you do the equivalent of 5 in-class
lecture hours and 12 hours of partici-
pation in discussion sessions.
The classes are not open-ended;
you have to keep up with the rest of
the class, and participate in the discus-
sion sections, which use a computer
bulletin board format.
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survive that, you get a grade and a
regular Bar-Ilan transcript.
Classes don't require an extensive
background in Jewish study, but you
should know the basics. Here's the
way the Bar-Ilan folks delicately put
it: "We would assume you know what -
the Jewish Bible or Five Books of
Moses are, but we don't assume you

have studied them.
If you get lost, you can even talk to
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in the Bar-Ilan chat room.
The Bar-Ilan site offers a slick
course demo" that will give you a fla-
vor of their version of online learning.
— James D. Besser

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again in opposition, party
leaders in Jerusalem are
cranking up their political
propaganda machinery.
The newest wrinkle: an Internet
newsletter for Likudniks around the
world. To sign up for news and analy-
sis from a Likud point of view, send
an e-mail message to
likud@likud.org.il with the word
"Subscribe" on the subject line.
— James D. Besser