The Social-Economic Academy

Monday 31.03
at 20:00

The course of the The Social-Economic Academy:

Economy and Society: The Human Perspectives

Fourth Meeting

Discussion on the topic of the “medicines basket” budget and the economic arrangements law (”hok hahesderim”), with participation of Alon Asaf, leader of the movement for enlargement the medicines basket

Ecological Building Workshop in the Barbur Community Garden

Friday 28.03
at 11:00

At this spring event in the Barbur community garden, we will build a bench using ecological building techniques, with used and recycled materials.
The building process is adapted for people with disabilities as well. Also, there will be activities for children, music, and refreshments.
Free entrance

For details, the garden coordinators:
Sahar Hofi: 0528-021501
Shauli: 0508-575301

Screening: The Woman of the Thousand Voices

Thursday 27.03
at 20:00

A film by Amram Jacoby

sound designer
Nissim Massas

Poems and Artworks
Ruth Dorrit Yacoby

The film was produced with the support of The Jehoshua Rabinowitz Foundation
Length: 66 min.
Israel 2007
English subtitles
Original languages: Hebrew, English

The film conveys the voices of the lost children who were sacrificed on the altar of war, through the poems and the artistic creation of the artist Ruth Dorrit Jacoby who serves as their mouthpiece.

A Close Reading of Plato’s Kleitophon with Shlomo Felberbaum

Wednesday 26.03
at 20:00

A Close Reading of Plato’s Kleitophon with Shlomo Felberbaum

The Social-Economic Academy

Monday 24.03
at 20:00

The course of the The Social-Economic Academy:

Economy and Society: The Human Perspectives

Third Meeting

In the meeting we will concentrate on the number of fundamental concepts of economy, their importance to the state budget construction, and the political process involved in the building of the budget .

Unmasking Esther

Wednesday March 19 at 19:30

An experiential workshop on contemporary meanings of the Megilla and the festival, from beauty to trafficking
Hevruta text study—biblical, rabbinic and current sources, mask-making, theater work, and suggestions for personal and social transformation
Please wear comfortable clothing, bring a towel & a plastic container

“Who knows whether it isn’t for a moment like this that you have attained your power”

Under direction of Dr. Bonna Devora Haberman and Nachshon David Mahanimy

Dr. Bonna Devora Haberman teaches Jewish Gender Studies at Hebrew University. She is founding the “Mistabra Institute for Jewish Textual Activism” where we interpret text and society through performance arts for the purpose of social betterment.
Nachshon David Mahanimy is a rabbinical student in the Renewal Movement.

The Social-Economic Academy

Monday 17.03
at 20:00

The course of the The Social-Economic Academy:

Economy and Society: The Human Perspectives

Second Meeting

Discussion on the topic of the “medicines basket” budget and the economic arrangements law (”hok hahesderim”), with participation of Alon Asaf, leader of the movement for enlargement the medicines basket.

Live music in Barbur

Screening: Asirey Kablan

(Contractor’s Prisoners)

After the screening the public is invited to talk with the director of the movie Nissim Mosek, and two of the movie protagonists: attorney Aviv Wasserman and former prisoner Adi Abergil.

Please see the Hebrew text for the full announcement.
60 minutes
Israel, 2007

The Social-Economic Academy

The new course of the The Social-Economic Academy:

Economy and Society: The Human Perspectives

Have you ever had to cope with bureaucracy, with a bank, with a health insurance company? In the coming series of meetings, we will examine through a prolonged dialogue contemporary social situations from a critical point of view. The series will deal with issues like workers rights, health policies in Israel, practical implications of economic policies, privacy and censure through technology, privatisation and responses to it, types of discrimination, capital and government, economy in everyday discourse.

The course coordinators: Niv Hachlili, Talia Avraham, Ofir Adiv, Nadav Even-Horev
Monday, March 10 at 20:30 First lecture

New exhibition opening

Friday March 7, at 12:00
New exhibition opening

Screening: No Direction Home, part two

Thursday 06.03
at 20:30

we will be screening the second part of

by director Martin Scorsese

A fascinating documentary that charts the beginning of Bob Dylan’s career. The movie
features interviews with Dylan and key figures from the time and it describes with humor, grace and
musicality how a young man that arrives in New York with a guitar in hand, becomes in a matter of
a few years one of the most famous, and infamous, people in the world.

English, 208 minutes