Featured Upcoming Events
Taste of Limmud: Exploring Jewish Visual Arts
Sunday, April 15, 2-5pm
Boulder JCC
3800 Kalmia Avenue
Boulder, CO 80301
Cost: $20.00 in advance; $5.00 for children 5-18
$25.00; $10.00 at the door
Join us for an afternoon of discovery and creativity through the visual arts. Limmud CO brings together Jews and their loved ones and friends for programs in Jewish learning and exploration. Choose between sessions on...
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Critical Israel: Art by Yael Bartana and Roee Rosen with Carol Zemel, Professor of Art History and Visual Culture at York University in Toronto
Monday, April 16, 7pm
University Memorial Center Room 235
CU Boulder Campus
Free and open to the public but RSVPs are appreciated
In its early days, Israeli art was largely described as utopian. Today, artists in Israel wrestle with critical social and political issues.
Professor Zemel will focus on the acclaimed video installations Polish Trilogy…and Europe will be stunned by Yael Bartana, and Confessions of Roee Rosen by Roee Rosen to demonstrate how artists in Israel are using their work to explore such issues. Her presentation will focus on questions of loss, rights of return, and conflicts of national identity. Finally, she will discuss the presentation of these artistic pieces and their meanings outside Israel for diasporic audiences.
Zemel is professor of Art History and Visual Culture at York University in Toronto. Her areas of research and publication include 19th and 20th century European art, the modern art market, feminism in the...
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Seeing Israel Film Series
Gevald! : A documentary by Ron Ofer & Yohai Hakakwith talk back by Dr. Caryn Aviv, Senior Instructor in Secular Jewish
Society & Civilization
Wednesday, April 25 @ 7PM
ATLAS 100, CU Boulder Campus
Join us for the first film in the trilogy by directors Ron Ofer and Yohai Hakak. The series, which includes The Rabbis Wife & The Midwife and Religion(dot) com, examines the distinct challenges of the Ultra-Orthodox Jewish community living in the modern State of Israel.
As a child, Shmuel-Haim Pappenhym would cover his eyes during Independence Day fireworks so as not to participate in Zionist celebrations. Today, he organizes mass demonstrations against the State and is the editor of an influential magazine of the Jewish extreme sect known for not recognizing the State of Israel. In contrast, ultra-orthodox parliament member, Rabbi Avraham Ravitz, served in the Israeli Army, and has been involved in mainstream politics for many years. Ravitz danced in the streets on Israel`s first Independence Day yet secular modern-day Israel makes him want to cry.
As national Election Day approaches, Ravitz anxiously tallies his party`s projected parliament seats. Conversely, Pappenhym rallies in the number of voter abstentions. For Pappenhym, participation in Zionist elections is a grave sin. Pappenhym organizes demonstrations, where the announcer boldly declares, “Zionists are not Jews,” to the audience`s overpowering response; “Gevald!” (Disaster!).
Caryn Aviv, Senior Instructor in Secular Jewish Society & Civilization, will lead a post-film discussion ...
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