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04/06/2026

Meet .hasso , Syrian Yazidi-Kurdish women’s rights activist, who will be one of our key participants at the SHIUR Middle East Dream Retreat on June 19-21.

The Middle East is not only Arab, but also Yazidi, Kurdish, Druze, Persian, Jewish, Armenian, Chaldean, Aramean, and many other ancient ethnic groups.

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

At our upcoming SHIUR retreat, we are fortunate to be joined by participants from a variety of Middle East ethnic groups who will participate in exploring how a new Middle East can look and what role can those in exile play in shaping the new Middle East.

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

28/05/2026

Contemporary Antisemitism Virtual SHIUR course with starting June 2.

11am UK
12pm Berlin
8pm Melbourne

Space limited. Apply now. Link in profile

26/05/2026

Virtual SHIUR for AUSTRALIA TIME ZONE! You may have recognised a gap between how many progressives talk about antisemitism and how the vast majority of Jews experience it.
Where did this gap come from? Understanding this is key to contending with Contemporary Antisemitism.

We will explore this and more at the 4 session weekly Contemporary Antisemitism Virtual SHIUR course with starting June 2.

11am UK
12pm Berlin
8pm Melbourne

Space limited. Apply now. Link in profile

15/05/2026

Hindu tradition gave you yoga. Buddhist Vipassana gave you mindfulness. Now, what can Jewish tradition offer you?
SHIUR is bringing 2,000 years of philosophy, art, and practice to the Chianti hills this June.
Eclipsed: Retreat in Tuscany, June 25 to 28, 2026, with and an intentionally curated group of participants.
Apply via the link in bio.

24/04/2026

Julian Casablancas has been making some bad decisions about how he talks about Zionism, Jews, and more.

You can make a better one: get informed.

Join our text-oriented course on Zionism, led by , and read the key sources for yourself.

The best resistance to the brain rot of vapid, attention-seeking internet culture is critical thinking and substantive discourse.

Virtual SHIUR: Zionism
Starts April 28
Link in bio / apply to join

16/04/2026

What role can exiles and émigrés in Europe play in shaping a New Middle East?

This year’s SHIUR Midsummer Retreat on June 19-21 in Germany, brings together young political dissidents, humanist thinkers, artists, diplomats, and creatives from the Middle East and beyond for an immersive Shabbat weekend of workshops, conversation, and community-building.
Key leaders at the retreat include , , Hesam Misaghi, .hasso , .alkadamani , ._azzam , Abdalle Mumin , and others.

Together, we will explore the role that exiles and émigrés in Europe can play in shaping a New Middle East.

Through text study, time in nature, movement, ritual, and shared meals, participants will engage one another’s intellectual and cultural worlds. Jewish participants will encounter Iranian and Arabic-speaking humanist thinkers, while Arabic-speaking and Iranian participants will engage with Jewish and Israeli humanist thought that helped shape modern Israel.
We will explore critiques of ideology through figures such as Raymond Aron, Yosef Haim Brenner, and Sadiq Al-Azm, examining voices that challenged dogma from within their own traditions.

Participants will also experience the traditions of our different communities: Druze, Yazidi, Iranian, Jewish, and more. Non-Jewish participants will experience the beauty of Shabbat in a spirit of openness and shared discovery. Jewish participants will encounter the warmth and richness of other Middle Eastern minority traditions.

This retreat is designed to build the kind of intellectual familiarity and personal trust that formal panels and official settings rarely create, laying the groundwork for new partnerships, fresh perspectives, and lasting mutual support across our communities.

Follow-up gatherings, both in person and online, will continue to strengthen this growing intellectual and creative network.
Gourmet vegan food catered by

Subsidies are available for students and activists from the Middle East. Apply via link in profile.

10/04/2026

Zionism virtual SHIUR. April 28-May 19, weekly. 6pm UK, 7 PM Berlin, 1 PM NYC, 10 AM LA time. Register via profile link.

Virtual SHIUR series with

“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.

25/03/2026

SHIUR Tuscany Retreat June 25-28! Apply now! Space limited.

Join us for a three night multidisciplinary retreat at a natural winery and organic farming estate nestled in the Chianti hills.

SHIUR founder will lead explorations of texts at the intersection of Renaissance Humanism and Italian Kabbalah, engaging rarely studied sources in the very region that gave rise to them.

We will examine the paradox at the heart of the Renaissance: a moment of rebirth grounded in a renewed relationship with an eclipsed past. What does it mean to rediscover the past in order to renew the present? In the Tuscan hills—where many of these ideas first took shape—we will explore this question and see where it takes us.

We will experience Shabbat and Havdalah in a new way - drawing on Italian Kabbalists and poets.

Therapeutic movement and meditation sessions by

Gourmet vegetarian local Tuscan cuisine

Pool

Winery Tour and Tastings

Nature excursions

And much more!

23/03/2026

Jews, Iranians, Israelis and allies in Berlin combat hate with light!!! Interested in joining our next event? DM us!

While Jews and Israelis are being violently targeted in Berlin and around the world, and while the Iranian people see that only Israel and America are supporting their struggle for freedom, Jews, Iranians, and allies came together in an intimate SHIUR Kapelya evening to cultivate our own creative light through song and text-based discourse.

We did this by learning and singing Hasidic Yiddish & Hebrew songs (niggunim) taught by and discussing revolutionary texts, poetry, and more with .

We explored texts by the poet Zelda, Rabbi Avraham Chein, Rabbi Shmuel Alexandrov, and a niggun brought across the Iron Curtain by Shaul’s great-grandfather, Rabbi Peretz Chein.

This evening was dedicated to the memory of Shaul’s recently departed Rabbi Chaim BenTzion ben Rabbi Avraham Aharon Chein and to Iranian freedom protestor Amirreza Fathian and dear friend of our community member , who was murdered by the Islamist Regime.

Thank you .pictoralis for helping us prepare!

24/02/2026

SHIUR Miami Dérive Closing Event Thursday, February 26. Apply to join.

Over the past weeks, SHIUR Miami Dérive/Drift has brought together a unique group of participants seeking a substantive encounter with art, music, architecture, philosophy, and tradition.

We have now become a community. For the dérive’s final gathering, set within the private art collection at the M Building, we will share a multidisciplinary evening featuring:

* A guided tour of the art collection
* A performance by Sean Avram Carpenter on the 1936 “Ex-Cessole” Stradivari Sacconi violin
* A text-based theory & philosophy salon led by SHIUR founder Micki Weinberg
* An interactive virtual reality demonstration by Dr. Scott Greenwald (Three Space Lab)
* Wine and snacks

Thank you to Cathy Vedovi & Alex Vedovi for your hospitality and for 3SL for your support

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