Siegal Lifelong Learning Program
March 15, 2021
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…
March 09, 2021
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…
March 05, 2021
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…
March 03, 2021
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…
February 25, 2021
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…
February 18, 2021
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…
February 18, 2021
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…
February 10, 2021
The Siegal Lifelong Learning Program will offer a remote lecture titled “Remembering The Children: Stories From The Kindertransport” Wednesday, Feb. 24, from 7 to 8:30 p.m. The Kindertransport was a rescue mission that saved about 10,000 Jewish children from Germany, Austria and Czechoslovakia by…
February 02, 2021
The death of George Floyd launched a summer of protests, during which activists chanted that Black Lives Matter. Meanwhile, Floyd's funeral allowed his family to remember him and to celebrate his humanity. Burials, funerals, and commemorations have long served as an important opportunity for the…
January 28, 2021
Case Western Reserve University's Siegal Lifelong Learning Program will host a remote lecture titled “The Trends and Controversies of American Jewry” Wednesday, Feb. 3, at 7 p.m. Shaul Kelner, associate professor of sociology and Jewish studies at Vanderbilt University, studies birthright Israel…