Archive 2018

Program 2018
Day 1
05 Aug 2018

Welcome & Intros

Explaining the choice and significance of the topic.  Participants’ introduction – each shares a significant memory along their spiritual path.
Rabbi Alon Goshen-Gottstein
Peta Jones Pellach

Brief introduction to Sikhism

Memory in Sikhism – taped interview.
Rahuldeep Gill

Text-study (chevruta) – the Ardas

Video – Sikhs’ recitation of the Ardas. Questions and discussion.
Rabbi Alon Goshen-Gottstein
Peta Jones Pellach
Day 2
06 Aug 2018

Prayers / Meditations

(outside, on Mt Zion)

Guru Nanak

Bibliodrama – a unique methodology to study sacred stories and enter into the lives of holy people
Peta Jones Pellach

Memory in Hinduism

taped interview
Dr Anantanand Rambachan

Text study (chevruta)

Hindu sacred sources on Memory

Guided text study

Hindu sacred sources on Memory
Rabbi Alon Goshen-Gottstein

Live discussion

(via Skype or Zoom) with Hindu and Sikh religious leaders
Day 3
07 Aug 2018

Prayers / Meditations

(outside, on Mt Zion)

Gather at Ecce Homo

Discussion and texts – especially the centrality of Al-Aqsa
Qadi Muhammad Abu Obied

Return to Mt Zion

Memory in Islam – taped interview.
Dr Muhammad Suheyl Umar
Dr Muhammad Suheyl Umar

Al-Ghazali: “Restoring the lost memory of tradition”

Bibliodrama – a unique methodology to study sacred stories and enter into the lives of holy people
Day 4
08 Aug 2018

Meeting at Ecce Homo

Walking meditation along via Dolorosa – stop at Church of the Holy Sepulchre

Memory in Christianity

Taped interview followed by discussion on interview and on texts
Prof David Ford

Panel

Representatives of different Christian churches – where our memories differ and where they are the same.

Meeting with Syriac religious leader

How memory is crafted and held in the local Christian community

Evening prayers

with Syriac community
Day 5
09 Aug 2018

Prayers / Meditations

(outside, on Mt Zion)

GUIDED TEXT STUDY:

Memory in Judaism
Peta Jones Pellach

LECTURE AND GUIDED TEXT STUDY:

The Haggadah as a text on Jewish Memory
Rabbi Alon Goshen-Gottstein

Lecture / teaching

The Kotel in Jewish memory
Rabbi Alon Goshen-Gottstein

GUEST LECTURE

Jewish Memory of God
RAV DANIEL KOHN
Rav Daniel Kohn
Day 6
10 Aug 2018

Memory in Buddhism

Taped interview, followed by texts study.
Dr Maria Reis Habito

Memory in Buddhism

Text study (cont). Feedback.

Shabbat as memory

Text study and discussion as intro to dinners
Day 7
12 Aug 2018

Case Study: Rav Kook

Remembering Righteous People / Saints / Tsaddikim

Case Study

Rav Kook Bibliodrama
Day 8
13 Aug 2018

Memory in civil religion

Mt Herzl as a sacred site
Peta Jones Pellach

Yad Vashem

the site
Peta Jones Pellach

Confronting difficult memories

What we make of what we have seen? Discussion

Memorialisation and remembering

The purpose of Yad Vashem
Day 9
14 Aug 2018

Text study

Narratives of Jerusalem in Poetry
Peta Jones Pellach

How collective memories cause conflict

The case of the Temple Mount (excerpts from taped presentation)
Dr Muhammad Suheyl Umar
Dr Muhammad Suheyl Umar

The Temple Mount

Are our different memories reconcilable?

Case Study 1

How collective memories cause conflict – the case of Bosnia (and the hope for healing) by Skype

Case Study 2

How collective memories cause conflict – the case of India by Skype
Day 10
15 Aug 2018

Preserving and Creating Memory

Meet at the Irya/ Municipality/ City Hall on the corner where the lion is, across the road/ rail-tracks from the pathway to Jaffa Gate
Peta Jones Pellach

Begin our stroll back to Har Zion

which we will explore together
Peta Jones Pellach

Powerpoint Presentation

“Har Zion as Created Memory” from Prof Doron Bar

Peace-Makers and Memory-Healers in Jerusalem

An encounter with some of the key players in interreligious dialogue and peace-building.
Dr Debbie Weissman
Dr. Miriam Feldmann Kaye
Yehuda Stolov

Lecture

Synthesis of our learning
Rabbi Alon Goshen-Gottstein
Day 11
16 Aug 2018

Summary / Discussion

Memory is malleable: Constructing, healing and purifying memory. HOPE for Jerusalem.
Rabbi Alon Goshen-Gottstein

Feedback and evaluation

Review and evaluation of the program
Peta Jones Pellach