Siegal Lifelong Learning Program

Members of the community are invited to join the Siegal Lifelong Learning Program and The Association for Continuing Education for an upcoming remote lecture titled “Barnstorming Ohio To Understand America.” Called “The Bard of Akron” by The New York Times, David Giffels spent the lead-up to the 20...

The Siegal Lifelong Learning Program will host a remote lecture with Peggy Zone Fisher, president and CEO of the Diversity Center of Northeast Ohio. She will present “Justice, Equity, Diversity and Inclusion” Friday, Aug. 20, from noon to 1:30 p.m. In her talk, Zone Fisher will share her unique ins...

Join the Siegal Lifelong Learning on Wednesday, Aug. 25, at 7 p.m. as the program remotely kicks off its fall semester with a preview of what's to come followed by a lecture. A century and a half of archaeological exploration in Egypt and Israel has revealed more and more information about the orig...

Members of the community are invited to join Alanna E. Cooper, the Abba Hillel Silver Professor of Jewish Studies, for an upcoming remote lecture titled “Windows Without a Home: 21st Century Congregations Repurposing Sacred Shards.” Hosted by the Siegal Lifelong Learning Program, this lecture will b...

Join Gila Silverman, director of Jewish lifelong learning with the Siegal Lifelong Learning Program, for a three-week online course titled “Jewish Lives: Rabbi Akiva: Sage of the Talmud.” Born in the Land of Israel around the year 50 C.E., Rabbi Akiva was raised in poverty and began to learn the To...

The Siegal Lifelong Learning Program, in partnership with the Baker-Nord Center for the Humanities and Cleveland Archaeological Society, will offer a remote series featuring renowned classical archaeologists sharing their research, museum work and field work. The series, titled “Classical Archaeolog...

The Siegal Lifelong Learning Program has an array of remote courses and lectures running throughout the summer. A few highlights include: Tuesdays, July 6–27: “Sail the Seas with Queen Elizabeth I, Her Spies and Privateers”Thursdays, July 8–29: “Aristophanes: Comedy and Chaos in Classical Athens”Mo...

The Siegal Lifelong Learning Program will offer an online lecture series titled “Jewish Anthropology: Community, Culture and Rituals” on Thursdays from July 8 to Aug. 12. Each session will be from noon to 1 p.m. ET. The series will consist of the following lectures: July 8: “Legacies of Justice an...

Laura Dassow Walls’ biography of Henry David Thoreau (titled Henry David Thoreau, A Life) explores the wide range of talents and accomplishments of this significant 19th century intellectual, philosopher, social reformer, businessman and naturalist, who helped shape our national identity. Thoreau’s ...

The Siegal Lifelong Learning Program will offer a remote course titled “Israel in a Changing Middle East: Opportunities and Risks,” led by Daniel Sherman, strategic consultant and lecturer in Modi'in, Israel. The course will be held from 1:30 to 3 p.m. Thursdays June 10 to July 1. This course will ...