Siegal Lifelong Learning Program

Michal Bar-Asher Siegal The Siegal Lifelong Learning Program will host its annual Week of Learning May 21–25 with special guest Michal Bar-Asher Siegal, the Horace Goldsmith Visiting Associate Professor in Judaic Studies at Yale University and associate professor in the Goldstein-Goren Department…

The Siegal Lifelong Learning Program will offer a Nobel Laureates Lecture Series to highlight Nobel Prize winners from 2022. During this series, which will be held in May and June, leading experts in related fields will present an overview of the Nobel Laureate, their research, the significance of…

The 21st century understanding of Pan-Africanism remains exclusively tied to the African continent, specifically leaving out Afro-diasporic subjects, especially in Europe. Today, a new movement of Black European youths are fighting against racial discrimination and for an Afro-European political…

One month after the Sugarhill Gang’s 1979 record Rapper’s Delight introduced hip-hop to a national audience, three New York Jewish men under the moniker Steve Gordon & The Kosher Five recorded the first rap parody record, a Yiddish-accented humorous skit full of American Jewish cultural tropes…

Canadian-Israeli journalist and author Matti Friedman will join Case Western Reserve University’s Siegal Lifelong Learning for an upcoming in-person lecture titled, “Who By Fire: Leonard Cohen in the Sinai.” Friedman is a former Associated Press correspondent and essayist for The New York Times…

The Siegal Lifelong Learning Program is offering a series of programs designed to complement the “The Tudors: Art and Majesty in Renaissance England” exhibition on display at Cleveland Museum of Art through May 14. The following programs will be offered: A remote course titled “Passion, Murder…

Seeking refuge from the horrors of the Holocaust, some survivors rebuilt their lives in Chile, a corner of the world far from the scenes of genocide and war. Today, only a few hundred remain; those who came to Chile as young children or adolescents are now between 75 and 105 years old. Samuel…

From the 1940s theatrical pageant A Flag is Born to the 1960s Paul Newman film Exodus, to American magazine covers during the Six Day War, to the current crop of binge-worthy Israeli TV shows, perceptions of the Jewish state are conditioned just as much—if not more—through culture as they are…

Throughout history, many have viewed love as an indescribable mystery. However, recent research on love and marriage has yielded valuable knowledge and guidance. The Siegal Lifelong Learning Program will host a remote lunchtime lecture titled “Love and Marriage: Five Evidence-Based Insights and…

Since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, we have seen ebbs and flows on the battlefield, in outside countries’ responses and in prospects for the future. The Siegal Lifelong Learning Program will host an upcoming remote lecture to explore what this tragedy has meant for the people of…