Adult Jewish Education Program

Adult Jewish Education at the Jewish Community Centre is a program of interactive, seminar-style Adult Jewish learning. Topics include the full range of Jewish experience: belief, philosophy, arts, culture, history, Israel, and the interface between Judaism and the rest of the world. The courses are pluralistic in nature and provide a comfortable and stimulating environment for Jews from all different backgrounds.

Charles Burnetts

Schindler and Beyond: Steven Spielberg as a Jewish Director

Tuesdays 9:30am-11:00am: November 13^th, 20^th & 27^th; and December 4^th, 11^th & 18^th 2018

Early Bird Special: Register early and save! Please note that places are limited and will be reserved on a ‘first pay, first served basis’. All reservations received and accepted by November 6, 2018 will get a $10 discount. The Early Bird fee for this 6-week course is $99/student (regular fee $109).

Charles Burnetts has a doctoral degree in media arts and teaches in the Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies at Kings University College, The University of Western Ontario. In addition to contributing to various book collections, Charles has published articles in: Journal of Film and Video, New Review of Film and Television Studies and Scope. His book, entitled Improving Passions: Sentimental Aesthetics and American Film, was published by Edinburgh University Press in July 2017. An avid Hollywood cinema and Seinfeld fan, Charles has an ongoing interest in issues of Jewish identity in film and contemporary comedy.

Schindler and Beyond: Steven Spielberg as a Jewish Director

This six-week course will consider various films directed by Steven Spielberg as films that relate importantly to key strands of the Jewish experience and to Spielberg’s own biography. The course will cover key films including Schindler’s List (1993), Munich (2005) and Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) while also looking at films less easily explained in relation to Jewish themes or Spielberg’s own Jewish background, such as Empire of the Sun (1987), E.T. (1982) and Jaws (1975).

Programs at JCC London

Calendar

	November 2018
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				1 Memorial Service Memorial Service November 1, 2018 @ 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm JCC London, 536 Huron St, London, ON N5Y 4J5, Canada See more details •	2	3
4 Israeli Dancing Israeli Dancing November 4, 2018 @ 10:30 am - 12:00 pm JCC Lounge See more details •	5 JEM - Arab Jews: Not an Oxymoron - Yigal Nizri JEM - Arab Jews: Not an Oxymoron - Yigal Nizri November 5, 2018 @ 7:30 pm - 9:00 pm JCC London, 536 Huron St, London, ON N5Y 4J5, Canada The “Arab Jews” lived in diverse cultural worlds across the Middle East and North Africa for over two thousand years, developing deep and enduring relationships with non-Jews. They were instrumental in shaping local, regional, and national cultures and politics. Are there Arab Jews today? Is Arab Jewishness still possible? Professor Nizri will discuss these questions within the context of these complex contemporary relationships. Yigal S. Nizri is an Assistant Professor in the Department for the Study of Religion and the Centre for Jewish Studies at the University of Toronto. He is currently working on a monograph on the emergence of a Jewish Moroccan scribal culture in the 19th and 20th centuries in the context of trans-Mediterranean Maghribi-Jewish diasporic networks. Sponsor: Gail Bass See more details •	6	7 Rosh Chodesh Society Rosh Chodesh Society November 7, 2018 @ 7:30 pm - 9:00 pm Michelle Bottner's home See more details •	8	9	10
11 Israeli Dancing Israeli Dancing November 11, 2018 @ 10:30 am - 12:00 pm JCC Lounge See more details •	12 JEM - Photographing the Posthumous Landscape of Historic... - David Kaufman JEM - Photographing the Posthumous Landscape of Historic... - David Kaufman November 12, 2018 @ 7:30 pm - 9:00 pm JCC London, 536 Huron St, London, ON N5Y 4J5, Canada Jewish Sites in Western Ukraine Filmmaker, photographer, and documentarian David Kaufman will discuss the precarious state of Jewish material culture and its largely forgotten illustrious pre-war Jewish history. Using his photographs of Jewish sites from many trips to Eastern Europe, he will describe the remnant of Jewish life in Lviv (Lvov) and Chernivtsi (Czernovitz), two large cities of western Ukraine that had once been major pre-WWII Jewish population centres. David Kaufman’s work focuses on Jewish heritage sites. His large-scale photographs have been featured in eight solo exhibitions in Toronto and will be on display in 2019 at the Yiddish Book Centre in Amherst, Massachusetts. He spent 18 years working at the CBC as a producer/director of The Journal and The Fifth Estate. He has made many independent films, including a feature documentary entitled Song of the Lodz Ghetto. Sponsor: Ronnee Alter, in memory of her husband, Lloyd See more details •	13 Holocaust Education Holocaust Education November 13, 2018 - November 14, 2018 @ JCC London, 536 Huron St, London, ON N5Y 4J5, Canada See more details AJE - Schindler and Beyond: Steven Spielberg as a Jewish Director AJE - Schindler and Beyond: Steven Spielberg as a Jewish Director November 13, 2018 @ 9:30 am - 11:00 am JCC London, 536 Huron St, London, ON N5Y 4J5, Canada Charles Burnetts See more details • •	14 Holocaust Education Holocaust Education November 13, 2018 - November 14, 2018 @ JCC London, 536 Huron St, London, ON N5Y 4J5, Canada See more details •	15 Ladies Boutique Night Ladies Boutique Night November 15, 2018 @ 5:00 pm - 9:00 pm Best Western Plus Lamplighter Inn & Conference Centre, 591 Wellington Rd, London, ON N6C 4R3, Canada See more details •	16	17 Arza Kiddush Arza Kiddush November 17, 2018 @ 12:30 pm - 1:30 pm Temple Israel London, Ontario See more details •
18 Jewbilation Jewbilation November 18, 2018 @ 9:00 am - 1:00 pm JCC London, 536 Huron St, London, ON N5Y 4J5, Canada See more details Israeli Dancing Israeli Dancing November 18, 2018 @ 10:30 am - 12:00 pm JCC Lounge See more details • •	19 JEM - Guts, Glory and Izzat: The 1918 Liberation of Haifa - Vinod Varapravan JEM - Guts, Glory and Izzat: The 1918 Liberation of Haifa - Vinod Varapravan November 19, 2018 @ 7:30 pm - 9:00 pm JCC London, 536 Huron St, London, ON N5Y 4J5, Canada See more details •	20 AJE - Schindler and Beyond: Steven Spielberg as a Jewish Director AJE - Schindler and Beyond: Steven Spielberg as a Jewish Director November 20, 2018 @ 9:30 am - 11:00 am JCC London, 536 Huron St, London, ON N5Y 4J5, Canada Charles Burnetts See more details Joint Or Shalom Sisterhood/Hadassah Meeting Joint Or Shalom Sisterhood/Hadassah Meeting November 20, 2018 @ 1:30 pm - 3:30 pm Or Shalom Congregation, 534 Huron St, London, ON N5Y 4J6, Canada See more details Laya Block Women's Lecture Series Laya Block Women's Lecture Series November 20, 2018 @ 6:30 pm - 9:30 pm JCC London, 536 Huron St, London, ON N5Y 4J5, Canada See more details • • •	21	22	23	24
25 Israeli Dancing Israeli Dancing November 25, 2018 @ 10:30 am - 12:00 pm JCC Lounge See more details Who Will Write Our History Who Will Write Our History November 25, 2018 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm Or Shalom Congregation, 534 Huron St, London, ON N5Y 4J6, Canada See more details • •	26 JEM - In the Name of Humanity: The Secret Deal to End the Holocaust - Max Wallace JEM - In the Name of Humanity: The Secret Deal to End the Holocaust - Max Wallace November 26, 2018 @ 7:30 pm - 9:00 pm JCC London, 536 Huron St, London, ON N5Y 4J5, Canada See more details •	27 AJE - Schindler and Beyond: Steven Spielberg as a Jewish Director AJE - Schindler and Beyond: Steven Spielberg as a Jewish Director November 27, 2018 @ 9:30 am - 11:00 am JCC London, 536 Huron St, London, ON N5Y 4J5, Canada Charles Burnetts See more details •	28	29 Jonathan Kessler Visit to London Jonathan Kessler Visit to London November 29, 2018 TBD Invite by donation See more details •	30

Adult Jewish Education Program

Schindler and Beyond: Steven Spielberg as a Jewish Director

Programs at JCC London

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November 2018

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