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Book an online Workshop with BINA
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If you can’t come to us, let us bring BINA to you and your community. Join us for a musical community Kabbalat Shabbat for the whole family, take part in a fascinating virtual tour of south Tel Aviv, celebrate the holidays with us and enjoy sessions run by BINA’s Jewish educators on a variety of thought-provoking topics.
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To book an activity contact [email protected], or complete the form below:
Options include:
Interactive Jewish text-study workshops
Eye-opening social-cultural tours of Tel Aviv
Online Mifgash (encounters) with BINA students and local activists
musical kabbalat Shabbat
BINA’s Kabbalat Shabbat includes reflection on the weekly Torah portion and Jewish values, Israeli melodies and Jewish tunes, combining song, discussion and a short text study. Our Kabbalat Shabbat activity is led by both a musician (accompanied by guitar) and a singer/facilitator.
musical kabbalat Shabbat
BINA’s Kabbalat Shabbat includes reflection on the weekly Torah portion and Jewish values, Israeli melodies and Jewish tunes, combining song, discussion and a short text study. Our Kabbalat Shabbat activity is led by both a musician (accompanied by guitar) and a singer/facilitator.
Musical Havdalah Experience
The Havdalah ceremony provides the opportunity to start the week off right – rooted in a Shabbat experience. BINA’s Havdalah ceremony combines familiar traditions with the voices of the participants and includes songs, inspirational texts and shared learning. This combination creates a meaningful and empowering experience for the individuals taking part and for the group as a whole. BINA’s Havdalah ceremony is led by both a musician (accompanied by guitar) and a singer/facilitator.
Virtual Tour of South Tel Aviv
An interactive tour that introduces participants to the social issues and challenges facing Israeli society, and that are common across the globe: gaps and inequalities, attitudes towards refugees and migrant workers, and our relationships with ‘the other’. The tour centers around locations that demonstrate specific social issues. Participants learn about the unique story of south Tel Aviv and its diverse residents, as they tour through the virtual presentation, have a dialogue with a leading facilitator and even meet with local personalities (on request, at an additional cost).
Virtual Tour of South Tel Aviv
An interactive tour that introduces participants to the social issues and challenges facing Israeli society, and that are common across the globe: gaps and inequalities, attitudes towards refugees and migrant workers, and our relationships with ‘the other’. The tour centers around locations that demonstrate specific social issues. Participants learn about the unique story of south Tel Aviv and its diverse residents, as they tour through the virtual presentation, have a dialogue with a leading facilitator and even meet with local personalities (on request, at an additional cost).
We Declare: A Fresh Reading of the Israeli Declaration of Independence as a Modern Jewish Sacred Text:
Redefining the Relationship between Judaism and Democracy
Megilat Haatzmaut – The Israeli Declaration of Independence – is starting to become known as the 6th Megilah in the Jewish tradition. How can we better understand this fascinating modern Jewish document, and how can we use it as a tool for engaging our communities in meaningful learning and discussion about Judaism, democracy and modern Israel? This session includes an interactive text based study and discussion.
The Global Refugee Crisis and Israel: Study and Discussion with an Israeli Refugee Activist:
While the USA and the western world copes with unprecedented challenges of migration, Israel hosts tens of thousands of non-Jewish refugees and migrants, in addition to Jewish olim (immigrants). Who are the 33,000 African refugees and asylum seekers in Israel? What is their situation today, especially under the new challenges of COVID-19? What can Jews and others around the world learn from their story, and what can we do to help? What can American Jews and Israelis learn from one another and from the Jewish tradition, and how can Jews around the world work together to form a modern global Jewish approach to migration?
The Global Refugee Crisis and Israel: Study and Discussion with an Israeli Refugee Activist:
While the USA and the western world copes with unprecedented challenges of migration, Israel hosts tens of thousands of non-Jewish refugees and migrants, in addition to Jewish olim (immigrants). Who are the 33,000 African refugees and asylum seekers in Israel? What is their situation today, especially under the new challenges of COVID-19? What can Jews and others around the world learn from their story, and what can we do to help? What can American Jews and Israelis learn from one another and from the Jewish tradition, and how can Jews around the world work together to form a modern global Jewish approach to migration?
21st Century Judaism: Making Judaism Relevant for New Generations Around the World
Many young Jews today don’t connect to traditional Jewish forms of affiliation and practice, but still crave a meaningful relationship with Judaism and Israel. This is true not only for Jews in the USA, but around the world and in Israel too. How can Jews around the world work together to create new, relevant approaches to Jewish expression and engagement, and how can the Israeli secular Jewish renaissance serve as a model and inspiration?
Shabbat: A Social Justice Revolution
When we think about Shabbat, we often think about its spiritual and religious ramifications – but what is the significance of Shabbat in the history of workers’ rights? How has the meaning of Shabbat changed over time? How have modern socialist Zionists reclaimed Shabbat as a holiday of labour rights? An interactive text study and history.
Shabbat: A Social Justice Revolution
When we think about Shabbat, we often think about its spiritual and religious ramifications – but what is the significance of Shabbat in the history of workers’ rights? How has the meaning of Shabbat changed over time? How have modern socialist Zionists reclaimed Shabbat as a holiday of labour rights? An interactive text study and history.
Synagogue and State: The Status and Future of Religious Pluralism in Israel
Unlike many European countries, there is no separation between Religion and State in Israel. Religion and State have coexisted in delicate balance for the last 70 years, but that balance is now changing andis facing a turning point today. Will there soon be civil marriage and same-sex marriage in Israel? Will businesses and public transit run on Shabbat? Will status be given to non-Orthodox movements? Find out about the current relationship between religion and state in Israel and what lies ahead in the future? And how will it affect Jews outside of Israel
