Siegal Lifelong Learning Program
September 15, 2015
In 2014, there were 198 deaths due to heroin in Cuyahoga County. Approximately 50 percent of those deaths were in the suburbs.
Much remains unknown and misunderstood about substance abuse.
Four public sessions presented by the The Laura & Alvin Siegal Lifelong Learning Program—titled “Substance Ab...
May 12, 2015
The Bible continues to influence Israeli culture, even in the rock, hip-hop and rap music scene.
Learn how pop stars are mining sacred Jewish texts to provide an unexpected window into Israeli art forms, both secular and Jewish, at “Hip-Hoppin’ Jews: on the Bible and Israeli Pop Music.”
The talk, ...
April 07, 2015
The community is invited for a day of lectures and discussion with faculty experts to examine and celebrate the life and times of civic activist Newton D. Baker, addressing his impact on the intellectual and political life of Northeast Ohio and beyond.
The symposium is Sunday, April 19, from 1:30 t...
March 18, 2015
Israeli author and filmmaker Etgar Keret will spend the evening of March 25 in Beachwood discussing his latest book, The Seven Good Years: A Memoir and the current situation in Israel. The book, a nonfiction account of Keret's personal life, follows on the successes of earlier books, Suddenly a Knoc...
December 01, 2014
Rabbi Shmuly Yanklowitz, author of Jewish Ethics and Social Justice: A Guide for the 21st Century, will discuss “Jewish Social Justice Activism: From Moses to Today” on Wednesday, Dec. 3, at 7 p.m. at the Beachwood campus of ϳԹ’s Laura and Alvin Siegal Lifelong Learning ...
November 13, 2014
The Institute for the Science of Origins, the Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA) and the Laura and Alvin Siegal Lifelong Learning Program will present a symposium titled “Food: Origins, Innovation, Imagination” Monday, Nov. 17, from 9 to 11 a.m. The symposium will be followed by a book signing and ac...
August 22, 2014
A well-received response to last year’s offering of a West Side Senior Scholars course prompted ϳԹ’s Laura and Alvin Siegal Lifelong Learning Program to return this fall with a new course, “Medieval Christian Pilgrimage: Canterbury, Santiago, Rome and Beyond.”
The eight...
August 19, 2014
The Laura & Alvin Siegal Lifelong Learning Program will host an “Opening Day” of activities Thursday, Aug. 28, featuring an evening lecture with Kirk Schneider, a psychologist and spokesperson for contemporary existential-humanistic psychology.
The event will preview fall programming and provide an...
March 31, 2014
Members of the campus community are invited to take part in the spring session of Mini Med School, from the ϳԹ School of Medicine and the Laura and Alvin Siegal Lifelong Learning Program. Mini Med School is medical school “for the rest of us”—those not seeking a medical ...
March 18, 2014
In one location, over a day of educational lectures, participants can go from exploring dark matter to learning how 3-D printing is revolutionizing industry to absorbing morsels of Cleveland’s past and future.
“A Day at the University,” presented by the Laura and Alvin Siegal Lifelong Learning Prog...