Room 11
Every Jew should be exposed to certain great works of modern imaginative Jewish literature. We'll do a close reading of more than a dozen brief extracts from some of the very best fiction, poetry, and drama, to help you decide which to add to your list. Sample authors: Malamud, Chabon, Ginsberg, Kushner, Lazarus, Ozick, Potok, Miller, and Roth.
Room 5
It is easy to say that God is with us when things are going well, but what if things are going very badly? We will consider this question with reference to the Bible, Kabbalah and Hasidism. Are there relevant lessons for spiritual people in the age of Covid-19 and climate crisis?
Is God self-isolating.pdf
Room 9
Our JHSE 'EU Passport' project [jhse.org/inner-passport-system/] investigates a growing post-Brexit trend in the British Jewish community to restore an ancestral (continental) European citizenship. We shed light on the motivations, challenges and often very painful dilemmas and memories for those of both Ashkenazi and Sephardi backgrounds.
Room 3
Amongst the worst affected by Covid-19 have been Black and Asian (BAME) communities, with BAME people up to four times more likely to die from the virus than their white counterparts. We will look at some of the facts behind these figures, what this says about life for BAME communities in the UK and at the wider issue of Black / Jewish relations in the UK.
Howard Jacobson Anne Sebba Nicholas Hytner
Room 1
Nicholas and Howard will explore why art matters, what threats the arts face today, not only from the virus and funding, but from the Internet, social media, ideology, the censoriousness of our times, and the no platforming of artists whose views aren’t considered acceptable
Room 15
How can a radical feminist live with Judaism? We all know it is full of sexist stuff. We all know women have had to leave Orthodoxy or stop being Jews because Judaism is so offensive. So how can an Australian radical feminist fight for the right to pray in a Mechitza shule?
Room 7
We will look at the questions of free will and predetermination in the light of Jewish tradition and text.
Room 13
Online antisemitism seems to be out of control: this week a two-day 'silence' to protest antisemitism on Twitter and Instagram drew global support. Meanwhile neo-Nazis use the darker corners of the internet to incite hatred and terror. What can be done, by governments, social media companies, and ordinary users, to address this problem?
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