Room 11
Sacrifices, ritual purity, kohanim (priests), dietary laws. These topics do not attract the attention of feminist readers of the Bible, yet the Book of Leviticus can be read through a feminist/queer lens. In this text study session, we will engage with passages from Leviticus from fresh new perspectives.
Ruth Lewin-Chen Thabet Abu Ras Elizabeth Harris-Sawczenko
Room 12
In May 2021, the world and Israeli society was shocked by the outbreak of inter-ethnic violence in Israel's mixed cities. Experts from the Abraham Initiatives, a long-running Jewish-Arab non-governmental organisation in Israel, present the challenges and opportunities in advancing equitable governance and building Jewish-Arab relations in these cities.
Room 16
We will explore how the ancient Israelites made ‘memory’ central to Judaic theology; how ritualization of memorization contributed to Jewish survivability amidst global dispersion and cultural dilution; the many manifestations of Jewish memory; and how contemporary neuroscience research accounts for the Jewish historical obsession with everything memory.
Room 15
'Tell it Not', to be published in 2022, contains 17 stories, ten of which have Jewish/Israel themes. One publisher suggested making it two separate collections: the Jewish collection, and the one about... everything else. Deborah prefers to see her work as a whole. How do we splice together our various identities, in stories and does this question matter?
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Room 13
In this illustrated session, we'll explore the legendary director's New York Jewish background and how it influenced such classic films as 2001: A Space Odyssey, A Clockwork Orange and The Shining. No experience necessary!
Room 14
Zooming through 18 countries we'll meet historical characters: a German in Denmark, a Dutchman in Lithuania, a Levi upgraded to a Cohen, plus Jewish scholars, soldiers, martyrs and heroes. Presented as an A-Z of wanderings through Jewish history, from Anchorage to Zaverichchya, we encounter the known, the not-so-known and the really out of the way.
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