Changing the world and ourselves through multi-disciplinary discourse
Before you read further… we’re running a fundraising campaign to support our coexistence programming in Israel and we would love to have you join us.
Please consider making a contribution here.
Want to see what the news doesn’t show? REAL coexistence & partnership is happening between Jews, Arabs, Iranians, & others at shiur events in the Middle East and Europe!
Through SHIUR, Jews and Arabs are creating a new path, a new movement, originating novel ways of forging partnership based on critical text based discourse, collective innovation, and cultivating a new community centered on shared values and non-dogmatic thinking.
New branch announcement
SHIUR - Mar Elias Educational Institutions Partnership
On June 2, 2024, in Ibillin, Galilee, a momentous occasion took place. Emeritus Archbishop Elias Chacour, the esteemed founder of Mar Elias Educational Institutions, graciously hosted a delegation led by SHIUR founder Micki Weinberg. This event marked the inauguration of a significant partnership between SHIUR and Mar Elias Educational Institutions. The partnership is dedicated to fostering Jewish-Arab coexistence through text-based discourse, a mission that holds immense importance in our shared community.
upcoming Live & Virtual Events
The people of Israel, both Jewish and Arab, are undergoing an unforeseen transformation in self-conception–both in relation to the world as well as reconceiving fundamental questions of Jewish & Israeli consciousness. Past political, religious, and social categories have become obsolete after October 7. Part of this process of reconfiguration involves reflection and engagement with ourselves and our history–and seeking out a new language and worldview that is contemporary to our times and needs.
We believe, now it is crucial to work on “internal defense” by engaging with intellectual and spiritual questions that shape our sense of what Israel stands for and what it means to be Jewish and or Israelis (this includes all Arab and non-Jewish inhabitants and citizens). Given the global nature of discourse about the War, we also feel it valuable to engage in discourse with our international community.
We are releasing newsletters focused on the current war in Israel, exploring this radical transfiguration. Sign up here.
A Selection of Past Events
Here’s a showcase of our most recent events. See all >
who we are & what we do
SHIUR is a multidisciplinary project and a global community that engages diplomats, cultural and business leaders, students and activists who are eager to critically engage with content and practice drawn from Jewish and other cultural sources through discourse, both digitally and in real life.
We critically explore the intersection between theory, text, culture, art, cinema, spirituality, and more through retreats and events in unique locations, museums, embassies, and cultural spaces.
our programming
We engage in contemporary questions and topics, across different disciplines, through specially curated text based discourse and interdisciplinary experiences.
We do this through specially curated live events and retreats, and original digital content.
digital content
Read the newsletter where we critically explore the intersection between theory, text, culture, art, cinema, spirituality, and more.
events & Retreats
Join us at one of our live or digital events where disciplines and experiences intersect in innovative and often unprecedented ways.
partner with shiur
Bring SHIUR to your organization, festival, retreat, or event. We offer SHIUR Shabbat and Havdalah experiences, text based discourse workshops, and more–that directly address the themes relevant to your programming through our text and ritual based programming.
interdisciplinary discourse
We facilitate global change through interdisciplinary discourse organized along thematic elements.
female artists
In the Jewish mystical tradition (Kabbalah), there is an ancient tradition, known as “Uplifting the Sparks”-- where hidden sparks of light are concealed in darkness, and each individual’s task is to uplift these hidden sparks…
POLITICAL REFUGEES IN EXILE
We collaborate with refugee political and cultural leaders in Europe and other parts of the world to create a productive discourse and practice that can enact transformative change amongst exiled artists and activists….
israel
SHIUR has active programming and diverse volunteer efforts in Israel, Europe, and North America pertaining to the ongoing conflict between Hamas and Israel following the October 7, 2023 massacre…
shiur newsletter
The SHIUR newsletter by SHIUR founder Micki Weinberg critically explores the intersection between theory, text, culture, art, cinema, spiritually, and more–drawing on traditional Jewish interpretive methods applied in new ways. The newsletter is explored in a virtual SHIUR with guest speakers and participants zooming in from around the world in digital transglobal discourse and idea exchange.
what is shiur?
EVERYTHING offers a gate to consciousness, the task is how to reveal and work with what we’ve been gifted or cursed with. The word shiur in Hebrew can mean “text based lesson” or “measurement” and is related to the Hebrew word sha’ar or “gate.” We like the multiplicity of connotations that SHIUR has, and we’re also measuring, assessing, entering gates, and reconfiguring how we interpret our world.
