Siegal Lifelong Learning Program

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 t...

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 Bla...

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 tr...

In the upcoming months, the Siegal Lifelong Learning Program will offer a variety of personal enrichment literature courses. Members of the community can sign up for the following courses: Lillian Smith’s Vision of Justice: Wednesdays, Feb. 3–24, from 10 to 11:30 a.m. ETThe Spy Who Stayed Out in ...

The Siegal Lifelong Learning Program named Gila Silverman the new director of Jewish lifelong learning. Silverman brings experience as an educator, researcher and writer, along with her expertise in anthropology and Judaic studies to the program. She started Jan. 4. Silverman holds a bachelor’s deg...

Rediscover the significant figures and engrossing tales of world mythology in an upcoming remote course on “Comparative Mythology” offered by the Siegal Lifelong Learning Program. Mythology is our earliest form of literary expression and the foundation of all history and morality. This course will ...

The Siegal Lifelong Learning Program will host an upcoming remote course with Amanda Mikolic, curatorial assistant of medieval art at the Cleveland Museum of Art. This remote course, titled “Arms, Armor, and the Armor Court at the Cleveland Museum of Art,” will be held on Wednesdays from Jan. 20 to ...

The Siegal Lifelong Learning Program has partnered with 929 English to offer an initiative to explore each book in the Hebrew Bible, Tanakh. In this lecture-style program, participants will study themes and structure in each of the 24 books of the Bible with scholars, writers, educators and public ...

How can we feel whole in a world that seems broken? What is healing and does it relate to our own health? Explore historical and modern Jewish texts about healing and the different ways in which they answer these questions. How can we feel whole in a world that seems broken? What is healing and doe...

As a part of the Israeli Speaker Series, join the Siegal Lifelong Learning Program for a conversation with Israeli musician and writer Eyal Rob. As a young thriving nation, Israel had been through radical social transformations throughout its 70 years. In this lecture, Rob will examine the major ch...