Siegal Lifelong Learning Program

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April 02, 2019
The Siegal Lifelong Learning Program will host Jay Geller, the Samuel Rosenthal Professor of Judaic Studies, to present a lecture titled "The Scholems: A Story of the German-Jewish Bourgeoisie from Emancipation to Destruction" Wednesday, April 10, from 7 to 8:30 p.m. at the Landmark Centre Building ...

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March 05, 2019
Sayed Kashua
Sayed Kashua, a best-selling author, journalist and TV show writer, will give two lectures hosted by the Siegal Lifelong Learning Program Wednesday, March 27, and Thursday, March 28.
The lectures will be free
for members of Siegal Lifelong Learning and the Maltz Museum of Jewish Heri...

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February 27, 2019
Titled “The Immigration Acts of 1921 and 1924 and How They Changed Cleveland Forever,” the next Public Policy Forum will address modern-day immigration in Cleveland.
The forum will be moderated by John Grabowski, the Krieger-Mueller Joint Professor in History and senior vice president for research ...

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February 15, 2019
Alanna Cooper, director of Jewish Lifelong Learning at the Siegal Lifelong Learning Program, wrote about an international program that keeps track of Torahs from pre-World War II Czech congregations, nearly all of which perished during the war. The Torahs were distributed throughout the 20th century...

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February 14, 2019
The Siegal Lifelong Learning Program will host the next installment of the Northeast Ohio Public Policy Forums series Tuesday, Feb. 26, from 7 to 8:30 p.m. in the Tinkham Veale University Center ballroom.
The forum will be titled “How Can We Reduce Gun Violence in Cleveland?” and feature a non-poli...

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January 18, 2019
Director of Jewish Lifelong Learning Alanna E. Cooper wrote about a synagogue in New Castle, Pennsylvania, which closed its doors after its congregation became too small to sustain it.
The article, titled “Saying Kaddish for a Rust Belt congregation,” traces the history of Temple Hadar Israel and t...

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December 21, 2018
The Siegal Lifelong Learning Program will host a lunch program with Peter J. Haas, the Abba Hillel Silver Professor Emeritus of Jewish Studies, on millennials.
Haas will present “Millennials: What You Should Know About Them and Why” Thursday, Jan. 18, from noon to 1:30 p.m. at the Landmark Centre B...

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December 06, 2018
The Siegal Lifelong Learning Program will host a course titled “Onstage with Kurt Weill” Wednesdays Jan. 2-23 from 1:30 to 3:30 p.m. at the Landmark Centre Building (25700 Science Park Drive, Beachwood).
Don Rosenberg, president of Music Critics Association of North America, will teach the course.
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November 27, 2018
Members of the community can participate in an accelerated certificate course in deep learning and artificial intelligence Dec. 3-7.
It is recommended (although not required) that participants hold at least a bachelor's degree in a STEM field. Lab sessions are based in Python, so knowledge of that ...

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November 16, 2018
Jews began leaving Yemen to immigrate to Ottoman Palestine (later Israel) as early as the 1880s, and their migration continued until recent years.
In a lecture hosted by the Siegal Lifelong Learning Program, Ari Ariel, adjunct assistant professor at the University of Iowa, will examine the strategi...