No Politics: A Special Election Meeting
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A Zoom meeting with Shahara Blau and Shay Gillis, one week before the elections. The meeting will focus on studying and writing about elections and politics, without talking about politics. The event is part of Beit Avi Chai’s “Why Do I Need Politics Now?” event series.
A Zoom meeting with Shahara Blau and Shay Gillis, one week before the elections. The meeting will focus on studying and writing about elections and politics, without talking about politics. The event is part of Beit Avi Chai’s “Why Do I Need Politics Now?” event series.
We are just a step away from Election Day—or, as the news editions and surrounding slogans have crowned it, “Democracy’s Holiday.” But let’s admit the truth: it is the strangest holiday of them all. There is no other holiday where you present an ID card at the entrance, no other holiday that makes you step behind a secret ballot screen facing an endless list of slips, and above all—no other holiday that places at its center this elementary human act: choosing. A ballot box, a slip, an envelope, a slot, weary excitement—and voilà, you have fulfilled your civic duty. Choice. A choice into which rivers of expectations, fears, hopes, well-worn disappointments, and endless fatigue converge.
A Zoom meeting with Shahara Blau and Shay Gillis, one week before the elections. Learning and writing about elections and politics—but without a word about politics. Wish us luck with that.
Monday | 3 Tishrei | September 14 | 8:00 p.m.
Gathering: 8:00 p.m.
Event begins: 8:30 p.m.
Price: 20 NIS
The event takes place as part of the “Why Do I Need Politics Now?” event series at Beit Avi Chai.
When we finish school, along with saying goodbye to glue, pens, and exam notebooks, we part with something else: the beating artery of the Hebrew calendar. At school, holidays are something to engage with: cutting out shofars for Rosh Hashanah, putting on a play about Antiochus at Hanukkah, eating dried fruit on Tu BiShvat, and taking part in the costume festival at Purim. In prosaic adult life, by contrast, the holidays usually descend upon us all at once, without asking and without prior notice.
In an attempt to return to that beating artery, we will meet every month for a Zoom study and writing workshop in preparation for the holidays of the year, each time close to the approaching holiday. We will try to preserve the realms of childhood, and also discover what has changed in the holiday after the years have wrapped it—and us—in rings of time.
Come in good spirits.
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