Jewish Educational Manna

_{“Intellectual Food for the Wondering Jew”}

JEM

JEM is co-sponsored by the Martin Bass Fund for Human Resources of Or Shalom, Temple Israel, and Jewish London, with additional support from the Selma Rothfeld Family Endowment Fund of the London Jewish Community Foundation and numerous individual donors. 

The goal of JEM is to provide stimulating, high-quality Jewish knowledge to busy adults who have a wide variety of Jewish learning backgrounds.

JEM Programs for 2023-2024 

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TOPIC	DATE	SPEAKER
Getting Their Act Together: The Formation of an Asylum-Seeking Community in Israel	October 16, 2023	Oded Oron
The Canadian Jewish Experience	October 23	Allan Levine   Sponsor: Congregation Beth Tefilah
What’s in a Name? On the Uses and Abuses of Jewish Names	October 30	Kalman Weiser
Rescuers of Jews during the Nazi Era: Who were They and Why did They do it?	November 6	Eric Gartner
Music among the Crypto-Jews of Portugal	November 13	Judith Cohen
The First Female Spy in Palestine	November 20	Adam Hummel
The Jews of the Great Silk Road: Yesterday and Today	January 29, 2024	Manashe Khaimov
The Goldschlager Collection of Holocaust Memoirs at the Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library	February 5	Nadav Sharon
How did Chanukah and Purim Catch On? The Establishment of ‘Minor’ Jewish Holidays and Judea-Diaspora Relations	February 12	Dr. Malka Z. Simkovich
Indigenous Peoples and Jews in Canada: A Tangled History	March 4	David Kaufman
Canadian Jewish Debate on Israel	March 11	Robert Brym and Ben Murane
Recording History: Jews, Muslims, and Music across Twentieth-Century North Africa	March 18	Christopher Silver

To receive emailed JEM fliers and updates, please contact Sandra at sandra@safranhr.com.    During the months of October through March, Jewish London will post notices about weekly JEM programs on the community eBlasts. To see a list of the season’s JEM programs, please click on jewishlondon.ca/community-links/, then on JEM.