{"id":108,"date":"2025-08-01T16:17:00","date_gmt":"2025-08-01T20:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ideaslab\/?p=108"},"modified":"2025-08-17T18:30:03","modified_gmt":"2025-08-17T22:30:03","slug":"about-js123","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ideaslab\/2025\/08\/01\/about-js123\/","title":{"rendered":"About JS123"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Interested in earning credit for participating in the&nbsp;<em>beit midrash<\/em>? Here\u2019s all you need to do as a student enrolled in JS123:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol>\n<li>Participate actively in at least five of the six Jewish Ideas Lab sessions during the semester, submitting a brief reflection after each (see below for details).<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Attend at least one related event during the semester and submit a brief reflection afterwards.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Meet with the faculty convener (Prof. David Freidenreich) at least twice during the semester to discuss your experiences.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p>Reflections can take any form you\u2019d like! Past reflections include informal writing, original music lyrics, cartoons, and selfie video monologues. The point is to demonstrate that you\u2019re continuing to think about the ideas we discussed together.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>JS123 (&#8220;Beit Midrash: Jewish Ideas Lab&#8221;) is a one-credit, nongraded course that may be taken repeatedly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Interested in earning credit for participating in the&nbsp;beit midrash? Here\u2019s all you need to do as a student enrolled in JS123: Reflections can take any form you\u2019d like! Past reflections include informal writing, original music lyrics, cartoons, and selfie video monologues. The point is to demonstrate that you\u2019re continuing to think about the ideas we [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1764,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ideaslab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ideaslab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ideaslab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ideaslab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1764"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ideaslab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=108"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ideaslab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":225,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ideaslab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108\/revisions\/225"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ideaslab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ideaslab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ideaslab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}