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13/08/2026

SHIUR is eclipsing hate in Berlin’s Neukölln area by bringing Jews, Arabs, and people of all backgrounds together in public to sing, learn, and celebrate the new Jewish month of Elul and witness the solar eclipse.

This was our first event in this area, not far from streets where many celebrated the massacres of October 7, and where keffiyeh-clad marchers regularly gather at demonstrations calling for violence against Jewish people.

SHIUR Kapelya leader Shaul Solomon led an inspiring and lively Hasidic song circle and text-based discourse as part of the SHIUR Kapelya Niggun Series.

We—Jews, Arabs, and people of all backgrounds—held our ground and proudly celebrated life, unity, and our shared humanity, bringing the warm, humanistic spirit of an Israeli kumzitz to Berlin!

This is what resistance to hate looks like: building the world we want, right here in Berlin, and everywhere.

30/07/2026

Israelis, Syrians, Lebanese, Iranians, Jews, Druze and people of other backgrounds came together in Berlin to celebrate the Jewish holiday of Love at the latest SHIUR gathering. This is what the news doesn’t show you: peace and coexistence does not depend on political decisions. It depends on real people choosing to see eachother as fellow human beings!

We believe that instead of only talking about what we’re against, we also need to build what we’re for. The future we want won’t appear on its own—it has to be created through new ideas, new relationships, and new ways of being, while drawing on the wisdom of the traditions that came before us. This involves bringing people together for substantive discourse.

At our SHIUR Summer Love – Tu B’Av gathering, Micki Weinberg led a text-based discourse exploring love, unity, and human flourishing through Jewish Kabbalistic and Humanist traditions, Shaul Solomon led a traditional Hasidic niggun circle, Syrian Druze Omar Alkadamani and Lebanese Unite against Fascism and Antisemitism performed traditional Arabic music, while Israeli musicians Adar Alfandari and Pigeoning Productions played original and popular music. Alongside shared food and wine, discourse, and community, the evening became a glimpse of what another future can look like.

Special thank you to .pictoralis for helping with preparation and to reddreamer & Hesam Misaghi for helping with photography.

Dm us if you’d like to get involved!

26/07/2026

SHIUR Berlin Summer Love! Join us in Berlin Wednesday July 29, 7:30pm. Link in bio

Join us on Tu B’Av, the Jewish holiday of love, for an evening exploring how different intellectual and spiritual traditions have understood love, beauty, desire, and human connection.

Micki Weinberg will lead a text-based discourse with selections from the Jewish mystical tradition alongside philosophy and theory.

Shaul Solomon will lead a song circle drawing on rarely sung Hasidic melodies. 1976 photo of Debbie Harry and Chris Stein by Roberta Bayley

20/07/2026

What do you actually know about Zionism?

August 4-25, weekly. 8pm Sydney, 12 PM Berlin, 11 AM London. Link in bio

Virtual SHIUR series with Micki Weinberg in partnership with Movement Against Antizionism AU

“Zionism” is hurled as a slur. It’s defended passionately. Antisemites weaponise it. Jewish institutions invoke it.

Yet this many sided, diverse movement was built on ideas and texts, wrestled over and cultivated by a wide range thinkers — with powerful ideas that deserve to be reexamined, and ultimately serve as the foundation for new and contemporary Zionist thought.

This isn’t a history course, nor an exhaustive class in theory. Instead, we explore key texts that directly address, evoke, or planted the seeds of Zionist thought.

These texts remain alive and capable of inspiring and challenging both Jewish and non-Jewish readers today.

We take a critical close reading text-based approach, that allows both for a deeper understanding of the texts discussed and for the possibility to break out of existing dogmas and ideologies.

02/07/2026

SHIUR in Tuscany. Where heaven meets earth.

At the SHIUR Tuscany Retreat, Micki Weinberg led a series of interactive, text-based discourses exploring Renaissance Humanism’s interaction with Kabbalah. Participants came from around the world to an organic farm and natural winery in the terraced hills of Chianti — land shaped by human hands for centuries, and one of the clearest examples we know of the higher meeting the lower: spirit working through matter, not fleeing it.

Through Renaissance humanist texts by Pico della Mirandola & Leone Ebreo, and rarely studied Renaissance Kabbalists, like R. Yehiel Nissim of Pisa and R. Yohanan Alemanno, we returned to a Renaissance ideal: cultivation. Of mind, through discourse. Of body, through yoga and the Feldenkrais method with Martin Schubert . Of soul, through song and Shabbat practice with the Milanese musician David Mouhadab

And, naturally: natural wine and Tuscan cuisine from Elisa and her team!

Thank you to our participants and supporters, to Yoni Weinberg , and to Anežka and of the SHIUR team.

DM us if you’d like to join a future SHIUR retreat or event.

28/06/2026

The SHIUR Middle East Dream Retreat promoted a path towards a new future that includes democratic-minded minorities coming together — shoulder to shoulder — to promote and lift up each other’s roads to self-determination!

That means getting to know each other and our stories, engaging in each other’s literature, traditions, songs, and theoretical outlooks — drawing from the best of each other’s experiences and traditions to create a Middle East Dream!

Interested in supporting our path or getting involved? DM us!

25/06/2026

We refuse to be enemies! People from Syria, Israel, Lebanon, Iran — Jews, Druze, Yazidis, Bahai, Muslims, secular — standing in solidarity with each other. Times are changing!

At the SHIUR Midsummer Middle East Dream Retreat in Germany, people from across the Middle East spent a transformative Shabbat together — sharing each other’s cultures, dancing Debka, engaging in texts, singing songs, building real friendships and setting the stage for supporting each other as we generate impact in our different spaces.

We are the region’s minorities, and we were never each other’s enemies. Our retreat was a foretaste of the future we actually want — self-determination shoulder to shoulder!

Viyan Hasso , ._azzam & Omar Alkadamani taught us Kurdish & Druze debkas and songs, brought Lebanese favorites, Hesam Misaghi brought the joy of Persian dance to us, while Shaul Solomon and Adar Alfandari taught us to sing Israeli & Hasidic melodies. Publicly, joyfully celebrating our suppressed cultures together is a key act of resistance.

SHIUR founder Micki Weinberg led text-based discourses where we, as a group, engaged in the challenge of how to construct new perspectives without letting them become new dogmas — with the ultimate goal of supporting each other with impactful action that changes the status quo.

Our presenters went into detail about the issues facing Druze, Yazidis, Bahá’í, the Lebanese coexistence camp, and others. Human rights lawyer Brandon Silver offered his insights into effecting change via international organizations.

Vera Strathmann invigorated us every morning with inspiring yoga sessions, .pictoralis destressed us with embodied practices, and Eran of Gaia Retreat House fed us delicious Israeli food.

Special thank you to all our sponsors and Yoni Weinberg for his tireless work in helping manage the retreat, and to Anežka and of the SHIUR team. Thank you .ctive and Hesam Misaghi for the beautiful images

17/06/2026

Meet Micki Weinberg , founder of SHIUR, who will be leading text-based discourses drawing on thought from both Jewish and Arab sources at the SHIUR Middle East Dream Retreat.

The Middle East has exhausted ideologies and obsolete solutions. We need radical new thinking that draws on its own deep intellectual and cultural traditions — without dogma, without fixed conclusions, open to possibilities we cannot yet imagine.

That is what we are trying to build at SHIUR. Not answers, but a space where the thinking can begin.

A different Middle East begins by recognizing that its story has always been far richer than the narratives imposed upon it.

15/06/2026

Meet Shaul Solomon , Israeli American poet and Hasidic song leader, who will be one of our key participants at the SHIUR Middle East Dream Retreat.

The Middle East is not only Arab, but also Jewish, Yazidi, Kurdish, Druze, Persian, Chaldean, Aramean, and many other ancient ethnic groups. What unites these communities is a wealth of living traditions — and the conviction that connecting across them is itself an act of building a different future.

One of the most encouraging developments today is the growing visibility and connections between the region’s minorities—communities that have often been suppressed by larger ideological and political forces and manipulated into enmity.

At our upcoming SHIUR retreat, we are fortunate to be joined by participants from a variety of Middle East ethnic groups who believe in coexistence.

A different Middle East begins by recognizing that its story has always been far richer than the narratives imposed upon it.

14/06/2026

Meet Omar Alkadamani , a Syrian Druze political advocate and speaker based in Germany, working on democracy, minority rights, and youth political participation, who will be one of our key participants at the SHIUR Middle East Dream Retreat.

The Middle East is not only Arab, but also Jewish, Yazidi, Kurdish, Druze, Persian, Chaldean, Aramean, and many other ancient ethnic groups. These communities remain deeply vulnerable — and part of what drives our retreat is the conviction that strengthening the bonds and mutual support between them is itself a form of protection.

One of the most encouraging developments today is the growing visibility and connections between the region’s minorities—communities that have often been suppressed by larger ideological and political forces and manipulated into enmity.

At our upcoming SHIUR retreat, we are fortunate to be joined by participants from a variety of Middle East ethnic groups who believe in coexistence.

A different Middle East begins by recognizing that its story has always been far richer than the narratives imposed upon it.

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