Siegal Lifelong Learning Program

Alanna Cooper, director of Jewish Lifelong Learning at the Siegal Lifelong Learning Program, wrote about an international program that keeps track of Torahs from pre-World War II Czech congregations, nearly all of which perished during the war. The Torahs were distributed throughout the 20th century...

The Siegal Lifelong Learning Program will host the next installment of the Northeast Ohio Public Policy Forums series Tuesday, Feb. 26, from 7 to 8:30 p.m. in the Tinkham Veale University Center ballroom. The forum will be titled “How Can We Reduce Gun Violence in Cleveland?” and feature a non-poli...

Director of Jewish Lifelong Learning Alanna E. Cooper wrote about a synagogue in New Castle, Pennsylvania, which closed its doors after its congregation became too small to sustain it. The article, titled “Saying Kaddish for a Rust Belt congregation,” traces the history of Temple Hadar Israel and t...

The Siegal Lifelong Learning Program will host a lunch program with Peter J. Haas, the Abba Hillel Silver Professor Emeritus of Jewish Studies, on millennials. Haas will present “Millennials: What You Should Know About Them and Why” Thursday, Jan. 18, from noon to 1:30 p.m. at the Landmark Centre B...

The Siegal Lifelong Learning Program will host a course titled “Onstage with Kurt Weill” Wednesdays Jan. 2-23 from 1:30 to 3:30 p.m. at the Landmark Centre Building (25700 Science Park Drive, Beachwood). Don Rosenberg, president of Music Critics Association of North America, will teach the course. ...

Members of the community can participate in an accelerated certificate course in deep learning and artificial intelligence Dec. 3-7. It is recommended (although not required) that participants hold at least a bachelor's degree in a STEM field. Lab sessions are based in Python, so knowledge of that ...

Jews began leaving Yemen to immigrate to Ottoman Palestine (later Israel) as early as the 1880s, and their migration continued until recent years. In a lecture hosted by the Siegal Lifelong Learning Program, Ari Ariel, adjunct assistant professor at the University of Iowa, will examine the strategi...

Food is for eating. But it also provides a vehicle for expressing ethnic pride and national identity. Sometimes food articulates conflict, and other times it serves to foster coexistence. Ari Ariel, adjunct assistant professor at University of Iowa, will present “Hummus Wars: Food, Identity and the...

Partnering with the Medical Examiner’s Office, the Cuyahoga County Postvention Response Team reaches out to those most directly impacted by suicide loss, and provides valuable training to law enforcement teams and potential first responders. People with substance use disorders are about six times m...

The Siegal Lifelong Learning Program will host two lectures by Aaron Koller, associate professor and chair of the Robert M. Beren Department of Jewish Studies at Yeshiva University (New York). The lectures are free for members of the Siegal Lifelong Learning Program. For nonmembers, the lectures co...