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- 'The Wisdom of Love': Philosophy, Religion and the Talmud in the Thought of Emmanuel Levinas (2 of 4)
- Action Meditation: Gyrokinesis
- Arrested for Praying at the Western Wall
- Bintel Brief (2 of 3)
- From One God to Another (2 of 2)
- Goodbye, Columbus, Hello Christopher: the Evolution of American Jewry
- Half the Community - the Vortex: Women and Tallit, Tefillin, and Torah Scrolls (2 of 4)
- Have Christians Got Anything Useful to Say to Us?
- Have Fun with Hebrew (2 of 4)
- Holocaust Teaching and Challenging Racism
- Introduction to Talmud (Shame 2 - the Talmud Attacks Shaming) (2 of 3)
- Israel 101 - Israeli Social Evolutions (2 of 4)
- Jewish Huck Embroidery
- Kosher Jesus
- Limmud on One Leg: Parenting
- Morning Has Broken - Shacharit in a New Light (2 of 3)
- Not in Heaven (3 of 3)
- Read and Write Yiddish Workshop
- Scandals of the Talmud: the Stories They Wouldn't Teach You in Cheder (2 of 4)
- The Arab Spring and Contemporary Strategic Dynamics in the Middle East
- The Kabbalah Toolkit: Creating Your Personal Vision
- The Luckiest People in the World - a Run Through Jewish History (2 of 4)
- Three Very Jewish Affairs: the Mortara Affair (2 of 3)
- Windows to Israeli Society Through Literature (2 of 4)
- Without Stratagems a People Will Fall
- Working for What: a View From the Book of Exodus
- You Are Driving Me Out of Business
'The Wisdom of Love': Philosophy, Religion and the Talmud in the Thought of Emmanuel Levinas (2 of 4)
Tamra Wright
Location: Ram 3
Tracks: Philosophy
Type: Lecture
Emmanuel Levinas, one of the most influential philosophers of the 20th century, encouraged us to re-think the fundamentals of western thought and learn to see ethics as 'first philosophy'. What does that mean, and why is it important for Jews, philosophers, and students of Talmud? Today's session: an exploration of Levinas's key ideas about Judaism as 'ethical teaching' and a 'religion for adults'. No prior knowledge of philosophy is required.
Action Meditation: Gyrokinesis
Natasha Steinberg
Location: SU Copper Rooms 1
Tracks:
Type: Workshop / Practical
Gyrokinesis is an Active Meditation which has influences from yoga, swimming and Tai Chi. Through self massage and exfoliation we will awaken our senses, use breathing techniques to find focus and boost energy levels by practicing the repertoire of the Gyrokinesis Method. Bring a hand towel and yoga mat if you have one.
Arrested for Praying at the Western Wall
Anat Hoffman
Location: Sci 3
Tracks: Age/Gender Issue, Israel, Politics
Type: Lecture, Discussion
Anat Hoffman faces a charge of one-year imprisonment for praying out loud, wearing a prayer shawl and holding a torah school at the Western Wall. This session discusses who, why and what are the forces dominating Judaism's most holy site.
Bintel Brief (2 of 3)
Liana Finck
Location: Soc 10 (YLC Art)
Tracks: Arts and Crafts, Literature, Midrash
Type: Creative
In this workshop, you will make a page of a graphic narrative based on one of the letters from the Bintel Brief, a popular Yiddish advice column that ran in New York's Forward Newspaper in 1906. Each participant in the workshop will be given a part of one of the letters to illustrate. The illustrations will be combined at the end of the workshop to create a continuous narrative, and the art will be displayed online as part of a larger project. Each workshop will be inspired by a different letter from the original Bintel Brief.
From One God to Another (2 of 2)
Gabby Dagan
Location: Ram 6
Tracks: Israel, Music Workshops, Spirituality
Type: Workshop / Practical, Performance
Learn gorgeous melodies that track a personal musical journey from an Israeli Sephardi synagogue through Ashkenazi Yeshiva, Orthodox and Israeli Army Rabbinate to the Reform Rabbinate in Haifa. Learn a wide variety of melodies that summarise such different aspects of Israeli life.
Goodbye, Columbus, Hello Christopher: the Evolution of American Jewry
Shuly Schwartz
Location: Hum 2
Tracks: Communities, History, Modernity
Type: Lecture, Discussion
From the original 23 Jews to settle in New Amsterdam in 1654, American Jewry has evolved into a vibrant, diverse group community that would be unrecognisable to those pioneers. How did American Jewish life develop in the New World? What has been the secret to Jewish survival? Together we will explore the unique challenges that American Jews faced as they created the religious, educational, philanthropic and social infrastructure of their community.
Half the Community - the Vortex: Women and Tallit, Tefillin, and Torah Scrolls (2 of 4)
Lindsey Taylor-Guthartz
Location: Lib 2
Tracks: Age/Gender Issue, Halacha, Tanach/Text
Type: Lecture, Text Study
In this intensive, we'll explore what the halachah says about women's performance of ritual commandments, and investigate how this plays out in practice, plus find out what is happening in the amazingly creative field of women's spirituality. Today we'll consider whether women may wear tallit and tefillin, and whether they can touch Torah scrolls, and why these areas are so controversial.
Have Christians Got Anything Useful to Say to Us?
Jane Clements
Location: Lib 1
Tracks: Communities, Interfaith, Israel
Type: Discussion
'Christians have been nothing but trouble, contributing -even authoring - major woes for the Jewish people throughout the centuries. Of course, they're idolaters - and don't even get started on Israel.' Given these commonly held perceptions, is there any point in engaging in dialogue today? Is there anything that Christians can say which Jews might want to hear? One Christian offers some possible suggestions for consideration.
Have Fun with Hebrew (2 of 4)
Nurith Cohen
Location: Ram 5
Tracks: Israel
Type: Workshop / Practical
Starter course for beginners, refreshers welcome! Four sessions of practical Hebrew in which to build a foundation of a beautiful and fascinating language. Learn useful words and phrases. Share this fun experience with friends and make new ones.
Holocaust Teaching and Challenging Racism
Ruth Barnett
Location: Soc 8
Tracks: Education, Holocaust, Social Justice
Type: Lecture, Discussion
This session is based on experience of giving talks, seminars and conference presentations in schools, colleges and training courses, using the book 'Person of No Nationality' and will explore the relevance of Holocaust teaching to challenging racism today.
Introduction to Talmud (Shame 2 - the Talmud Attacks Shaming) (2 of 3)
Joel Grishaver
Location: Rootes Chancellors 3
Tracks: Halacha, Leadership, Tanach/Text
Type: Creative, Text Study
Wanna understand and study Talmud? In this session we will perform Bava Metzia 58b-59a, a text that deals with the Physics of Shaming. This session stands alone and will serve as the second session in an introduction to Talmud. We will begin by looking at cases that involve embarrassment and move into the Talmud to find answers.
Israel 101 - Israeli Social Evolutions (2 of 4)
Nadav Eyal
Location: Sci 2
Tracks: Israel
Type: Lecture
Want to refresh your basic knowledge about Israel? Missed a class or two at Cheder? Israel 101 will teach you about the cornerstones of the State of Israel. Presented by the Jewish Agency for Israel Shlichim, get the facts about Israel like never before. Today we will examine Israeli social evolutions - was is a kippa sruga? How do the kibbutzniks influence society? When did the mizrachim get power? Come and find out.
Jewish Huck Embroidery
Deborah Katchko-Gray
Location: SU Pool Room
Tracks: Arts and Crafts, Visual Arts
Type: Creative
A continuation of the first session devoted to creating a huck embroidered challah cover using Swedish Weaving Embroidery technique. Huck weaving has been used to make tallitot and participants will be encouraged to try that as well on their own once they master the technique.
Kosher Jesus
Shmuley Boteach
Location: Ram 1
Tracks:
Type: Lecture
Shmuley offers a radically new perspective, based on years of ground-breaking research, about the world's most famous personality. He conclusively determines that the Jews did not kill Jesus, and explains why the New Testament editors made the Jews culpable as the story took shape. The idea is to hope these realisations will strengthen Jewish-Christian ties and values, with Jesus (historically the barrier separating the two peoples) serving as the bridge between the two faiths.
Limmud on One Leg: Parenting
Gregg Drinkwater,
Elie Jesner,
Limmud on One Leg,
Adam Overlander-Kaye,
Jude Williams,
Atira Winchester
Location: Soc 7
Tracks: Communities, Philosophy, Tanach/Text
Type: Panel Debate, Text Study
Taste of Limmud emails almost 1500 participants each week with a Dvar Torah or two, always from a different and interesting angle. Bringing this idea to life, our panel will each present you with their interpretation of parenthood from a Jewish context, using modern, Biblical and Talmudic texts.
Morning Has Broken - Shacharit in a New Light (2 of 3)
Ruth Gan Kagan
Location: Soc 2
Tracks:
Type: Workshop / Practical, Training
P'sukei D'Zimra - The Power of Praise Explore the underlying structure of the morning service and deepen your understanding of the inner process that prayer is offering us at the dawn of each day. We will use writing exercises, chanting, movement and discussions to enliven the davvening practice. For clergy, prayer leaders and those who wish to take their own prayer practice to a deeper level. A siddur is recommended.
Not in Heaven (3 of 3)
Joe Wolfson
Location: Rootes Chancellors 1
Tracks: Leadership, Midrash, Tanach/Text
Type: Lecture, Text Study
The Oven of Akhnai legend and its conclusion that the Torah is 'not in heaven', is to the Talmud what Sinai is to the Bible - the single event that gives sense to the whole. This intensive aims to put the story in a new light by focusing on the biographies of the key characters, and showing how the choices and decisions that confronted post-Temple Judaism live with us until today.
Read and Write Yiddish Workshop
Devra Kay
Location: Sci 7
Tracks:
Type: Workshop / Practical
Switch easily from Hebrew to Yiddish, which is written in the Hebrew alphabet but with European spelling. This session does not teach Yiddish language. There are many classes that do this. It offers the tool of reading and writing Yiddish that will enable you to access the language and centuries of Ashkenazi culture. Knowledge of the Hebrew alphabet would help but is not essential.
Scandals of the Talmud: the Stories They Wouldn't Teach You in Cheder (2 of 4)
Yaffa Epstein
Location: Soc 1
Tracks: Leadership, Philosophy, Tanach/Text
Type: Discussion, Text Study
Rabbinic Rebellion: Voices of Rabbinic Insubordination. Throughout the Talmud the dissenting opinion is preserved along with the opinion that is ultimately accepted as Law. But the Talmud does more than just preserve these voices, it also tells us stories of Rabbis who outright rebelled against the forces in control. We will examine these stories together, and attempt to understand why the Talmud includes these stories, and what they can teach me in 2011.
The Arab Spring and Contemporary Strategic Dynamics in the Middle East
Jonathan Rynhold
Location: Sci 5
Tracks: Current affairs, Israel, Politics
Type: Lecture, Discussion
Over the last year, there have been major pro-democracy demonstrations throughout the Middle East, some resulting in regime change. Will these changes lead to a democratic summer or do they auger greater instability, war and a nuclear winter? This session will seek to answer these questions by placing them in the wider strategic context in the Middle East.
The Kabbalah Toolkit: Creating Your Personal Vision
Daniel Anderson
Location: Soc 5
Tracks: Kaballah, Philosophy, Psychology
Type: Discussion, Workshop / Practical
In a world of continuing uncertainty, where the old realities have been swept aside by the forces of globalisation, technology, and the now deepening economic crisis, the question 'what am I doing here?' is perhaps of even greater significance than ever before. In this session, we will look at how you can confidently confront the challenges of modern life head-on using a Kabbalistic approach.
The Luckiest People in the World - a Run Through Jewish History (2 of 4)
Clive Lawton
Location: Hum 1
Tracks: Diaspora, History, Politics
Type: Lecture, Discussion
Over four sessions, Clive will look at different periods in Jewish history and seek to support his thesis that the Jews are the luckiest people in history. Enough of whinging. Time to be grateful!
Three Very Jewish Affairs: the Mortara Affair (2 of 3)
Jonathan Wolfson
Location: Soc 6
Tracks: Diaspora, History
Type: Lecture, Discussion
During the 19th Century Jewish communities in Western Europe faced 3 'Affairs'. Each - with its own international dimension - threatened to disturb the sense of progress felt in the Age of Emancipation and necessitated new means of organisation and alliances with the non-Jewish world. The Mortara Affair, 1858, in which a Roman Jewish boy was forcibly snatched from his parents by Papal Authorities and raised as a Priest, highlighted both international Jewish weakness and Papal illiberalism and helped the cause of Italian Unification.
Windows to Israeli Society Through Literature (2 of 4)
Rachel Korazim
Location: Sci 8
Tracks: Israel, Literature, Poetry
Type: Discussion, Text Study
The Image of the Other. This session will explore the images of the Arab and the newcomer in modern Israeli literature. We will read short excerpts from works by: David Grossman, A.B. Yehoshua, Savyon Liebrecht and possibly some others.
Without Stratagems a People Will Fall
Aryeh Luz
Location: Ram 4
Tracks: Diaspora, Israel
Type: Lecture, Film
How a new immigrant lawyer fortuitously became involved in Israeli intelligence. The wide variety of fields of activity and specialised training involved. How personal, family and social life was affected. The stranger than fiction experiences and people encountered.
Working for What: a View From the Book of Exodus
Devora Steinmetz
Location: Soc 3
Tracks: Tanach/Text
Type: Text Study
The book of Exodus begins with the Israelites working as slaves for Pharaoh and ends with the people working in service of God. We will study selected passages from Exodus in an attempt to discover what these narratives might tell us about the nature of work and the place of work in our lives.
You Are Driving Me Out of Business
Mark Goldsmith
Location: Soc 4
Tracks: Business, Halacha, Tanach/Text
Type: Discussion, Text Study
Robert and Veronica's delightful roasting-on-the-premises coffee shop in Boulder's Blue High Street is an institution. However, Jason is about to open yet another branch of the huge coffee shop chain 'Home from Home' just three doors away from them. Can they survive? Worse still he is member of their Shul! In the light of our tradition of Jewish business ethics and law is there anything they can do about this?
