Green 26
Like scores of Jewish writers in the ghettos during World War II, the Yiddish poet Avrom Sutzkever used poetry as a weapon of spiritual resistance against the German attempt to annihilate Jewish memory and lives. The session will examine a sample of Sutzkever’s poems written in the Vilna ghetto and his surrealistic short prose, ‘Green Aquarium’ published in Tel Aviv in 1953-1954.
Orange 14
The session will give a short overview of the history of Jewish communities in the Western Balkans and will mainly focus on the period of Yugoslav wars, the connection between Jewish communities despite the wars between the countries and the role of Jewish organisations in helping people of all religions and nationalities during the siege of Sarajevo.
Red 4
Can creative expression be used to improve mental health and well-being? Marvin J Shaw, author of "Creative Starts, Creative Sparks" demonstrates how the creative arts can cure mental pain and distress whilst promoting emotional healing. This session is aimed at teachers, educators, therapists and those involved or interested in the creative arts.
Yellow 22
Grow out of failures - case studies of things that did not work while creating the TOM activity and how it improved the TOM movement.
Purple 31 (Bar)
We will learn how to embroider a Jerusalem scene. We will use fabric and coloured threads to bring the City of Gold to life. Some experience of embroidery or sewing is necessary (but no need to be an expert).
Evan Gary Cohen Omri Mordechai Rosenkrantz
Orange 13
What's going on with LGBT in Israel today? Why have the most massive changes in attitudes towards LGBT - both sociologically and politically - taken place in the last decade under Prime Minister Netanyahu and his conservative governments? What can we expect in the near and not-so-near future?
Blue 33
What does global Jewish responsibility mean? How has it changed form and remained constant from the Garden of Eden to modern times? We will look at a variety of sources that ask us to interrogate our responsibility to Jews across the street and around the world.
Global Jewish Responsibility _ Sefaria Source Sheet Builder.pdf
Green 27
The first translation of the Bible, the Septuagint, was into Greek, which remained an important spoken and literary language in the Middle East for many centuries. An introduction to the shapes of the Greek letters and vowels, showing the links with Hebrew.
GreekHebrewAlphabet.pdf
Orange 11
What happens when youthful ideology grows up? Come discuss whether or not there is still a place for idealistic, secular Zionism in Israel today, through the story of growing up in Habonim Dror in the 1990s, making aliyah in the 2000s, and finding a place to live out the values of the youth movement in a very changed Israel.
Yellow 24
In this second session we will look at how the Zachor paradigm can be applied to both Israeli society and also how Diaspora Jews engage with Israel. The Zachor approach will suggest ways to move on from ultra-nationalism and anti-Zionism.
Red 7
A reading aloud and discussion of the (very) short story "Sabbath in Portugal" by Isaac Bashevis Singer, about a U.S.-based Yiddish writer who has an unexpected encounter while in Lisbon on business. A beautiful tale that reflects on the forced conversion of Jews to Christianity in medieval Portugal and the modern-day angst of acculturated Jews.
Singer, "Sabbath in Portugal".pdf
Red 3
Apples and Honey Nightingale, the UK’s first co-located nursery in a care home, has been a tremendous success, hailed as a model for intergenerational education, nationally and internationally. Discover and discuss why there has been so much interest in the project and how the recent research findings can inform societal change for the future.
Orange 12
Mexican synagogues are a window into the communities that built them: their beliefs, traditions, economic status, aspirations and their transformations. We invite you on a visual tour around the synagogues of Mexico City and stories of those communities.
Yellow 23
Prompted by Brexit, in an historically unprecedented move, many hundreds of British Jews are applying for EU passports from the very countries which their families fled. Together with Ruvi Ziegler and various Jewish communal bodies, Simon has launched a project to bring their experiences together. This session brings this topic to life.
Red 5
This session will explore the appeal of the hit tv series Shtisel, looking at the characters and drama through a critical lens. With clips and analysis, we’ll discuss about how Shtisel deals with loss and mourning, romance, family ties and faith.
Green 25
Of potential interest to volunteers, people wanting to involve volunteers and people with strong views about volunteering, this session will examine 7 core volunteering principles and participants will then plan and share next steps.
final 7 CORE PRINCIPLES FOR GOOD VOLUNTEERING.doc
Blue 34
Theodor Herzl lived most of his adult life in the city of Vienna. What was Vienna like at the end of the 19th century? To what extent was Herzl, the leader of political Zionism, influenced by the atmosphere in Vienna?
Red 2
The early Zionists were a pretty pessimistic lot. Whether it was catastrophic violence from without or creeping assimilation from within, they firmly believed that, without a Jewish state, the Jews were doomed. With the benefit of a century of hindsight, we’ll see if the prophecies of Herzl, Pinsker, Jabotinsky and others still feel relevant in 2019.
Orange 10
Lots of things make us angry these days. Let Mussar help us manage it. Mussar is a genre of Jewish literature that focuses on character development and helping us behave as we most want to. Sometimes we need more anger and sometimes less. Using texts, discussion and spiritual practices, we will learn how to find, use and control our anger.
Red 1
Yoga should be accessible to everybody but not every yoga class is suitable for every body. If you've felt uncomfortable doing group exercise in the past, you're living in a larger body or an older body, you're LGBT+, you're living with and injury or a condition, then this is the class for you. Come and do what you can.
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