Adult Education

Saturday, November 14  7 pm

Naftali Aklum was born in Ethiopia in 1979. The following year, in 1980, his family was among the first groups to make Aliya to Israel via Sudan in what later became known as “Operation Moses.” He was raised and educated in Beersheba. He served in the IDF as a firefighter. He graduated from Ben Gurion University in 2008 with a concentration in Middle Eastern politics, government, and history. He has worked helping children in the city of Beersheba through his Council for the Well-Being of Children, and has served as a mentor to other Ethiopian-Israeli academics to assist them in job placement.  Since 2010, he has played a critical role in the Ethiopian National Project’s Scholastic Assistance Program providing emotional and social support for 7th through 12th graders and overseeing 15 teachers who provide intensive scholastic assistance to the project’s participants. The story of the exodus of Ethiopian Jews to Israel is one of the most moving historical events of the Jewish people. Although it happened recently, most Israelis and Diaspora Jewry are not aware of the difficulties and challenges encountered by Ethiopian Jews in their trek to reach Israel and the problems and challenges they faced after their arrival. He offers a one-day educational experience for tourists to Beersheva that focuses on the history, culture and traditions of Ethiopian Jewry.  His objective is to enable the Ethiopian community in the Negev and in Israel to share its unique culture and history with others, to empower it, and to contribute to a pluralistic Israeli society that views its communal diversity as a source of strength.

Zoom Registration Link

Wednesdays, 6 – 6:45 pm beginning on October 14

Cost: $100 plus $37 for books.

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Jewish institutions, organizations, and synagogues have been streaming Jewish classes, concerts, films, lectures, museum tours, and podcasts ever since the pandemic began. You can find calendars for much of this programming at:

• My Jewish Learning (daily): https://www.myjewishlearning.com/daily-guide-to-our-zoom-events-livestreams-and-other-online-resources/

• Laurie Baron (weekly posted on Thursdays), “Streaming Jewish Programming,” San Diego Jewish World, https://www.sdjewishworld.com/

Sources of Recorded and/or Streaming Jewish Programming:
• Alan Leve Center for Jewish Studies, UCLA: https://www.cjs.ucla.edu/podcasts/ and https://www.cjs.ucla.edu/past-events/

• American Jewish University, https://www.aju.edu/whizin-center-continuing-education

• Association for Jewish Studies, https://www.associationforjewishstudies.org/publications-research/adventures-in-jewish-studies-podcast

• Breman Museum of Atlanta, https://www.thebreman.org/Events

• Center for Jewish History: https://programs.cjh.org/tags/livestreams   https://www.cjh.org/calendar/past-programs

• Contemporary Jewish Museum, https://www.thecjm.org/

• Dallas Holocaust and Human Rights Museum, https://www.dhhrm.org/programs-and-events/

• Hadassah Brandeis Institute, https://www.brandeis.edu/hbi/events/index.html

• Hebrew Union College, http://huc.edu/calendar

• Holocaust and Humanity Center, https://www.holocaustandhumanity.org/events/

• Holocaust Museum of Houston, https://hmh.org/events/

• Illinois Holocaust Museum and Education Center, https://www.ilholocaustmuseum.org/pages/programs/events/

• Jewish Museum, https://thejewishmuseum.org/programs

• Jewish Music Institute, https://www.jmi.org.uk/events/

• Jewish Theological Seminary, http://www.jtsa.edu/events-calendar

• Jewish Women’s Archive, https://jwa.org/podcasts/canwetalk   https://jwa.org/events

• Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust, http://www.lamoth.org/news–events/events/

• Melton, Hebrew University, https://meltonschool.org/foundations-curriculum

• Museum of Jewish Heritage: https://mjhnyc.org/current-events/

• Near Eastern and Jewish Studies, Brandeis University, https://www.brandeis.edu/near-eastern-judaic/events/index.html

• 92^nd Street Y, https://www.92y.org/jewish-life.aspx

• Orange County Community Scholar Program: https://occsp.net/

• Pardes Institute of Jewish Studies, https://www.pardes.org.il/programs/

• Program in Jewish Studies, University of Colorado, https://www.colorado.edu/jewishstudies/events

• San Diego Center for Jewish Culture, https://www.lfjcc.org/cjc/cjc.aspx

• Shalom Hartman Institute, https://www.hartman.org.il/events/

• Sousa Mendes Foundation, http://sousamendesfoundation.org/events/

• Spertus Institute for Jewish Learning and Leadership, https://www.spertus.edu/programs-events?gclid=EAIaIQobChMI6o_R2Iyl6wIVoR6tBh3F5Q6KEAAYASABEgIdovD_BwE

• Tam Institute for Jewish Studies, Emory University, http://www.js.emory.edu/news/index.html

• Taube Center for Jewish Studies, Stanford University, https://jewishstudies.stanford.edu/events/upcoming-events

• Temple Emanu-El Streicker Center: https://www.emanuelnyc.org/streickercenter/upcoming/

• Tikvah Fund, https://tikvahfund.org/landing/educational-programming/

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: https://www.ushmm.org/

• Vilna Shul, https://vilnashul.org/events/upcoming