Siegal Lifelong Learning Program

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: T...

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 c...

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 epidemi...

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 co...

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 wha...

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 ...

The Siegal Lifelong Learning Program will offer a remote lecture titled “The Haggadah in History: A (Virtual) Tour” Thursday, March 18, from 3 to 4:30 p.m. Sasha Goldstein-Sabbah, digital curator for the Jewish Historical Museum in Amsterdam and the Jewish Heritage Network, will lead this session. ...

Bob Dylan recast popular music with the questions of purpose and meaning that had defined religion for millennia. In the words of Bruce Springsteen, Dylan has proved that pop songs could contain the whole world. The Siegal Lifelong Learning Program will offer a remote course titled “Bargaining for ...

In honor of the 19th Amendment’s recent 100th anniversary, the Siegal Lifelong Learning Program will host a course as a timely tribute to the contribution women artists have made to great music. Featuring trail-blazing artists of the past and present, “One Hundred Years of Great Women Classical Arti...

The Siegal Lifelong Learning Program will host Yehonatan Indursky, producer of the popular Netflix series Shtisel, for a lecture on his current series: Autonomies. This remote lecture will be held Tuesday, March 16, from 11 a.m. to noon. Indursky, a filmmaker and celebrated screenwriter, will speak...