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Archive 2018
Program 2018
Day 1
05 Aug 2018
14:00 - 15:20
Rabbi Alon Goshen-Gottstein
Peta Jones Pellach
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
15:30 - 16:30
Rahuldeep Gill
Brief introduction to Sikhism
Memory in Sikhism – taped interview.
Rahuldeep Gill
16:45 - 18:00
Rabbi Alon Goshen-Gottstein
Peta Jones Pellach
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
9:00
Prayers / Meditations
(outside, on Mt Zion)
9:20 - 11:20
Peta Jones Pellach
Guru Nanak
Bibliodrama – a unique methodology to study sacred stories and enter into the lives of holy people
Peta Jones Pellach
11:30 - 12:30
Dr Anantanand Rambachan
Memory in Hinduism
taped interview
Dr Anantanand Rambachan
14:00 - 15:20
Text study (chevruta)
Hindu sacred sources on Memory
15:30 - 16:50
Rabbi Alon Goshen-Gottstein
Guided text study
Hindu sacred sources on Memory
Rabbi Alon Goshen-Gottstein
17:10 - 18:30
Live discussion
(via Skype or Zoom) with Hindu and Sikh religious leaders
Day 3
07 Aug 2018
9:00
Prayers / Meditations
(outside, on Mt Zion)
9:20 - 10:50
Qadi Muhammad Abu Obied
Walk to and on Temple Mount / al-Aqsa
Qadi Muhammad Abu Obied
11:00 - 12:30
Qadi Muhammad Abu Obied
Gather at Ecce Homo
Discussion and texts – especially the centrality of Al-Aqsa
Qadi Muhammad Abu Obied
14:00 - 15:20
Dr Muhammad Suheyl Umar
Return to Mt Zion
Memory in Islam – taped interview.
Dr Muhammad Suheyl Umar
15:30 - 16:50
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
9:00 - 10:50
Meeting at Ecce Homo
Walking meditation along via Dolorosa – stop at Church of the Holy Sepulchre
11:00 - 12:30
Prof David Ford
Memory in Christianity
Taped interview followed by discussion on interview and on texts
Prof David Ford
14:00 - 15:20
Panel
Representatives of different Christian churches – where our memories differ and where they are the same.
15:30 - 16:50
Meeting with Syriac religious leader
How memory is crafted and held in the local Christian community
17:10 - 18:30
Evening prayers
with Syriac community
Day 5
09 Aug 2018
9:00
Prayers / Meditations
(outside, on Mt Zion)
9:20 - 10:20
Peta Jones Pellach
GUIDED TEXT STUDY:
Memory in Judaism
Peta Jones Pellach
10:30 - 12:30
Rabbi Alon Goshen-Gottstein
LECTURE AND GUIDED TEXT STUDY:
The Haggadah as a text on Jewish Memory
Rabbi Alon Goshen-Gottstein
14:00 - 15:20
Rabbi Alon Goshen-Gottstein
Lecture / teaching
The Kotel in Jewish memory
Rabbi Alon Goshen-Gottstein
15:30 - 16:50
Rav Daniel Kohn
GUEST LECTURE
Jewish Memory of God
Rav Daniel Kohn
17:10 - 18:30
Prayers at the Kotel
Day 6
10 Aug 2018
9:00
Prayers / Meditations
9:20 - 10:50
Dr Maria Reis Habito
Memory in Buddhism
Taped interview, followed by texts study.
Dr Maria Reis Habito
11:00 - 12:30
Memory in Buddhism
Text study (cont). Feedback.
14:00 - 15:20
Shabbat as memory
Text study and discussion as intro to dinners
20:00
Shabbat dinner at homes
Day 7
12 Aug 2018
11:00 - 12:30
Case Study: Rav Kook
Remembering Righteous People / Saints / Tsaddikim
14:00 - 16:00
Visit to Rav Kook House
16:00 - 18:00
Case Study
Rav Kook Bibliodrama
Day 8
13 Aug 2018
9:00
Meet at Mt Herzl
9:20 - 10:50
Peta Jones Pellach
Memory in civil religion
Mt Herzl as a sacred site
Peta Jones Pellach
11:00 - 12:30
Peta Jones Pellach
Yad Vashem
the site
Peta Jones Pellach
14:00 - 15:20
Museum unguided
15:30 - 16:50
Confronting difficult memories
What we make of what we have seen? Discussion
17:10 - 18:30
Memorialisation and remembering
The purpose of Yad Vashem
Day 9
14 Aug 2018
9:00
Prayers / Meditations
9:20 - 10:50
Peta Jones Pellach
Text study
Narratives of Jerusalem in Poetry
Peta Jones Pellach
11:00 - 12:30
Dr Muhammad Suheyl Umar
How collective memories cause conflict
The case of the Temple Mount (excerpts from taped presentation)
Dr Muhammad Suheyl Umar
14:00 - 15:20
The Temple Mount
Are our different memories reconcilable?
15:30 - 16:50
Case Study 1
How collective memories cause conflict – the case of Bosnia (and the hope for healing) by Skype
17:10 - 18:30
Case Study 2
How collective memories cause conflict – the case of India by Skype
Day 10
15 Aug 2018
9:00
Peta Jones Pellach
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
9:45
Peta Jones Pellach
Begin our stroll back to Har Zion
which we will explore together
Peta Jones Pellach
11:00
Powerpoint Presentation
Powerpoint Presentation
“Har Zion as Created Memory” from Prof Doron Bar
11:30
Rabbi Alon Goshen-Gottstein
“Constructing Memory”
Rabbi Alon Goshen-Gottstein
14:15
Merav Stein
The work of JICC
15:45 - 17: 15
Dr Debbie Weissman
Dr. Miriam Feldmann Kaye
Yehuda Stolov
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
17:30
Rabbi Alon Goshen-Gottstein
Lecture
Synthesis of our learning
Rabbi Alon Goshen-Gottstein
Day 11
16 Aug 2018
9:00
Prayers / Meditations
9:20 - 10:50
Rabbi Alon Goshen-Gottstein
Summary / Discussion
Memory is malleable: Constructing, healing and purifying memory. HOPE for Jerusalem.
Rabbi Alon Goshen-Gottstein
11:00 - 12:30
Peta Jones Pellach
Feedback and evaluation
Review and evaluation of the program
Peta Jones Pellach
12:30 - 14:00
Final Lunch