Siegal Lifelong Learning Program
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…
January 25, 2021
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…
January 15, 2021
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…
January 12, 2021
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…