Entering a Jewish Prayer Space
Stuart Kelman
Friday 5:00 PM–6:15 PM
Windwood
Ritual & Prayer
Long ago, one prayer, ma tovu, placed at the beginning of the siddur, was composed in order to respond to the question: how do I enter into a holy space to begin worship? We’ll unpack that prayer to discover just how this prayer is supposed to “work” to respond to this eternal, human need.
Jewish Folk Art - Session 1
Theory and Practice
Helene Fischman
Friday 5:00 PM–6:15 PM
Foxfire
Arts & Performance,
Teens
Art is and has always been the means by which humanity has expressed its deepest feelings, values and highest ideals. In this introductory session, we will begin to explore Jewish Folk Art through such artists as Shalom of Safed, Marc Chagall, and Harry Lieberman. Participants will begin a collage & painting, beginning the fascinating journey exploring visual language as a means of storytelling.
Nazi Medical Abuses—Ethical Issues Then and Now
Miriam Zimmerman
Friday 5:00 PM–6:15 PM
Sun Drift
Global History & Culture
Nazi physicians faced ethical dilemmas that are relevant today. Ethical principles that the architects of National Socialism abused include but are not limited to medical solutions for social problems, informed consent, the politicization of research, doctor-patient relationship vs. doctors’ allegiance to third parties, rationing of medical care, killing in the name of healing, nature vs. nurture (the relevance of the gene in human behavior), and the dilemma of “family values.”
Nazi doctors and biomedical researchers solved these dilemmas by unethical solutions: the use of racist ideology and murderous medical practices. Across the spectrum of medical specialties from
psychiatrists to family practitioners, doctors enforced Nazi ideology at the expense of their integrity and the moral imperative to “do no harm” to the subjects within their charge.
Participants will be encouraged to look back to Nazi abuses and discuss how these ethical
dilemmas should be resolved today. A variation of this workshop will be presented in July at the 6th International Conference on the Holocaust and Education at Yad Vashem.
The Search for God in the Pursuit of Justice
Or Rose
Friday 5:00 PM–6:15 PM
Starslide
Identity & Responsibility,
Text & Thought
How do we understand the role of God in the human pursuit of justice? In this session we will explore a number of key Jewish mystical concepts relating to this question. How might the esoteric concepts of “tzimtzum,” “kelipot,” “nitzoztot,” and” tikkun” (a term that is overused but understudied) help us create a Jewish theology of activism? Can the teachings of Kabbalah and Hasidism help us wrestle with the perennial issue of theodicy and the work of creating a just and compassionate world?
The Shema: Mind, Body, and Voice
Session I: Text Study
Andrew Hahn
Friday 5:00 PM–6:15 PM
Gold Camp, Streak
Ritual & Prayer
Come learn about the Shema and its Kavannot by means of textual study. This is the first of three sessions dedicated to the Shema facilitated by Rabbi Andrew Hahn. See the catalogue for information on the other two. There is no need to attend all three sessions of this "track," even though they do build one upon the other.
