Siegal Lifelong Learning Program

Are Jews a religion or a people? Some Jews (and non-Jews) believed that Judaism was a modern religion like Protestantism; others thought Judaism was political and national. Members of the community can explore this question in a course offered by the Siegal Lifelong Learning Program. Titled “Is…

The Siegal Lifelong Learning Program is offering a remote course titled “American Bloomsbury: The Writers of America's First Literary Community”. The class will be held remotely from May to June. In three wooden houses in Concord, Massachusetts, during the 1850s, an American literary movement was…

The Siegal Lifelong Learning Program’s Continuing Professional Studies program will launch a new digital music production program in partnership with Delta Sound Labs. Sessions begin in July for this six-week Online Foundations of Digital Music Production course. Using Ableton Live digital audio…

Brandon Edwin Chrostowski, founder, CEO and owner of EDWINS Leadership & Restaurant Institute in Shaker Square, is on a mission to change the face of re-entry in society following incarceration. His mission is based on the principle that every human being, regardless of their past, has the…

Case Western Reserve University’s Siegal Lifelong Learning Program will offer a wide variety of literature courses this spring. Participants can revisit the classics, explore graphic memoirs and dive into children's literature. The following literature courses will begin in April: “Jane Austen:…

Mainstream Jewry has encountered communities spanning Asia, Africa and the Americas claiming to belong to the Jewish people or to be descendants of lost Israelite tribes for centuries. Who are these groups, how did they get “lost” or become isolated from the rest of known Jewry, and why have their…

A four-part live webinar series will bring together researchers, social scientists, clinicians and providers working in various areas of the opioid crisis intervention in Ohio. The Intersecting Pandemics: The Opioid Epidemic & COVID-19 series will explore how COVID-19 is impacting the opioid…

From ancient times to present day, Jewish communities have lived as minorities amidst a foreign majority population. In this environment, Jews have had to navigate the challenges of fitting in and ensuring their own physical and economic security while finding ways to preserve their integrity and…

The Siegal Lifelong Learning Program will host a remote lecture with Rabbi Roger Klein, of The Temple-Tifereth Israel, titled “Going Back to Move Forward: The Bible's First Principles.” This session will be held Friday, March 19, from noon to 1 p.m. In this session, participants will reflect on…

The Siegal Lifelong Learning Program will offer a remote lecture titled “Sibling Rivalry in the Book of Genesis” Wednesday, March 24, from 7 to 8:30 p.m. Anthony Wexler, a SAGES Teaching Fellow and lecturer in the Department of English, will teach the course. The book of Genesis is full of stories…