Red 4
A beautiful Persian carpet from the 19th century has wended its way to the Hebrew University on Mount Scopus in Israel from Kashan, a town in Persia. We will discuss the coloured dyes and Hebrew friezes. What can we learn of who commissioned the carpet and why?
Red 7 - Brightsmith
How could Artificial Intelligence (AI) shape the future of work? How might industries change? And how will businesses grow or manage AI? How could or should we adapt? Come to learn more about the fast growing world of AI.
Yellow 24
A resident of Ravenswood Bluff has been murdered. Can the townspeople identity the killer before the whole town is done in? A beginner-level game of murder and mystery, social deduction and deception for up to 20 people. Surprisingly fun and lighthearted. We’ll play at beginner level so it’s accessible to all.
Red 8
This session will discuss examples from across our CAMERA on campus divisions in the UK, Israel, and the USA in relation to antisemitism and anti-Zionism that students have faced on their respective campuses. It will also look at how everyone can use our student campaigns to counteract antisemitic and anti-Zionist sentiment and rhetoric.
British version of CAMERA UK 2023 Brochure.pdf
This is Zionism 2023 Flyer US and UK.pdf
Mizrahi Stories Intro Flyer 2023.pdf
Apartheid Week Promo Flyer (8.5 × 11 in).pdf
Orange 13
States are consolidated through their chosen heritage narratives. In Israel, archaeology has long satiated this need. But what about heritage as a framework for self-governance and liberation? In this session, we explore the future of Israel/Palestine through Palestinian heritage as a tool of non-violent resistance and socio-political legitimacy.
Red 3
Uncover what Jewishness entails for Dutch young adults who have no formal religious structure to hold on to. Can we put a name to the undefinable, ungraspable qualities that make us Jewish? How do Jews shape and define our Jewish life? How do we continue Jewish traditions, and how do we push the boundaries of what Jewishness can be?
Red 5
In this session, the Ben Azzai programme (run in coordination with the Office of the Chief Rabbi) will be introduced as a method of increasing youth engagement in global social justice. The programme, current issues in international development, and what Judaism has to say about the role of aid and development in the world are all on the agenda!
Yellow 22 - YTL
God’s absence from the Scroll of Esther has perturbed many. Sofer STa”M (scribe) Mordechai Pinchas (Marc Michaels) shows how scribes and scholars have sought to insert, and thus reveal, God through various exegetical conceits and visual midrash, to uncover the hidden architect behind the turnaround chronicled in the Scroll of Esther.
Orange 12
The writer S. An-Sky wrote the play 'The Dybbuk' in 1914, following the success of his Jewish ethnographic expeditions across the Pale of Settlement. It would take a daring and avant-garde group of young actors, the Vilner Troupe, to premiere the play in Yiddish in 1920, at the same time catalysing the development of modern Hebrew theatre.
Red 2
Shakespeare's identity has been subject to some of the greatest scrutiny of any human being. But what if Shakespeare was an Italian Jewish woman? Deconstructing myths and proposing Amelia Bassano Lanier, the first published female poet, as the author of the body of Shakespeare’s works. Controversial, provocative, but backed by academic research.
Red 1
Controversy erupted recently over the bones of Jews who died during the Black Death. A debate had raged years earlier in the wake of the Holocaust about how to dispose of heirless items that had belonged to European Jewry. Come learn about the Jewish past, gain insight into the Jewish present, and debate the contours of the Jewish future.
Orange 14
As the war in the Gaza Strip continues, settlers have been exploiting the lack of public attention to the West Bank, to escalate their campaign of violent attacks in an attempt to forcibly transfer Palestinian communities. Join Breaking The Silence to hear testimonies from former soldiers and an update on Palestinian herding communities in the South Hebron Hills.
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