We will study Biblical and rabbinic stories dealing with personal, intimate spaces, such as the home and the backyard, and more public spaces, such as the city. You will find, stories that you are familiar with, such as the Tower of Babylon, the destruction of Sodom and Gomorra and the fool's city of Chelm, as well as more obscure topics, such as a home infected with leprosy. These texts will be juxtaposed with works of video art and photography reflecting the contemporary home and the "big" city.

House - Home ‚ Body: The individual cells of the great city.

Cellar- Corridor- Attic: Liminal Spaces, resurrection and sorcery.

Yard-Garden ‚Park: Regimentation of the nature within boundaries of culture.

Street- Marketplace-Terminal: alienation and intimacy in the public space.

The Tower of Vanity: Babylon and the birth of multiculturalism.

Sin City: Sodom and Gomorra, a place of fantasy.

City of fools: the wise men of Chelem and the inspiring stupidity.

City in the Sky: Jerusalem, Utopia and Dystopia

Mondays, October 9th-November 27th, 7-9 pm

($90-members/$110-non-members).

Register online at www.jccmanhattan.org or call the JCC at 646-505-5708.
The course code is JLSALMOOF7.
The JCC is located at 334 Amsterdam Avenue (at 76th street).

Irit Koren - Director of Alma NY (at the JCC)
334 Amsterdam Avenue, 8th floor New York, ny 10023
Tel. 646-505-4414 Fax. 646-505-4448