Modern Hebrew

Explore the beautiful art of Hebrew calligraphy and micrography at this week’s HLC Club Hangout!
Open to all skill levels—no prior Hebrew or calligraphy or micrography knowledge required. Just bring your love for creativity!
The workshop will be conducted primarily in English with a touch of Hebrew and some homemade treats to enjoy.
Invite your friends, and come experience something new!

Explore the beautiful art of Hebrew calligraphy at this week’s HLC Club Hangout!
Open to all skill levels—no prior Hebrew knowledge required. Just bring your love for calligraphy and creativity!
The workshop will be conducted primarily in English with a touch of Hebrew and some homemade treats to enjoy.
Invite your friends and come experience something new!

Join us for a fun and interactive session as we brainstorm together and plan exciting topics for our upcoming meetings. Whether you’re interested in language learning, cultural exploration, or simply want to connect with others who share an interest in Hebrew and/or in Israeli culture, this is a great opportunity to share your ideas and get involved.

* The club is mainly conducted in English, with a little Hebrew sprinkled in. No prior knowledge of Hebrew is required—everyone is welcome! 

Title: Book talk: Our Palestine Question

Geoffrey Levin (Emory University) will discuss his new book, Our Palestine Question: Israel and American Jewish Dissent, 1948-1978 (Yale 2023), a new history of the American Jewish relationship with Israel, which focuses on its most urgent and sensitive issue: the question of Palestinian rights.

Two men sit at a popular café in Tel Aviv. Moments later, they open fire on the shocked diners around them. One customer fights back. Others run to safety. No one escapes unharmed. Closed Circuit documents the infamous shooting attack at Sarona Market with raw footage from security cameras and riveting interviews with survivors: a father breaking the Ramadan fast with his family, a cop who unknowingly saves one of the fleeing terrorists, a girl who escapes but loses her dad, and restaurant workers, both Arab and Jewish, whose lives are forever changed by their sudden encounter with death.

January 1945, four forced laborers women, Estusia Wajcblum, Rosa Robota, Alla Gartner, Regina Safirstein were hanged in public, accused of sabotaging the Nazi war machine.

Sabotage unfolds the unknown story of the women’s underground operation in Auschwitz-Birkenau. A story of feminine heroism, resistance, and tragedy, told through the eyes of Anna Wajcblum Heilman, Estusia’s sister and youngest member of the women’s resistance.

A Zoom talk with Shlomi Alon, a well-known and active musician in Israel - as a playing musician (he plays the saxophone, flute and other musical instruments), as a composer, as a songwriter and as a singer.

Shlomi is one of the founders and members of “HaDag Nachash” - a band that celebrated its 25th anniversary this year. This is the most popular and successful band in Israel.

An uplifting documentary about an unexpected and unique collaboration between an American and an Israeli musicians.

People all over the world post video clips online. They cram their video notes into virtual bottles and toss them into the boundless ocean that is the Internet. All they want is for someone to find the hidden treasure and to be seen.

Over the past two decades, those paying attention to Israeli politics have witnessed a steady rise of far-right nationalist movements in Israel. This last election has erased any pretense that this phenomenon is fleeting. What is the “radical right” in Israel, what is its relationship to ethnocentric nationalism, democracy, minority rights, and human rights? How does it understand the “Jewish” descriptor of the state of Israel as a Jewish state? What is its relationship to religion?

Speaker: Dr. Adi Livny, Israel Institute Teaching Fellow at Middlebury

Dr. Livny holds a Ph.D. from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and is an historian of Zionism and Israel. She also coordinated the international project “The Historical Archive of the Hebrew University: German-Jewish Knowledge and Cultural Transfer 1918-1948,” an Israeli-German collaboration that involved cataloging and evaluating the archive’s materials from the pre-state era. She is the Israel Institute Teaching Fellow at Middlebury.