Cartoons & Extremism - Israel & the Jews in Arab & Western Media

This exhibition examines the uses of different ways Jews have been portrayed in cartoons and prints that range in date from medieval times to today. The display includes a number of original postcards, newspapers and other objects from around the world which explore various Jewish stereotypes....read more

Exhibition: Portraits for Posterity

January - March 2010

Portraits for Posterity aims to create memorable photographic portraits of individuals who, having survived the Nazi Holocaust, went on to create new lives in Britain....read more

Tel Aviv 101

A photographic exhibition of images of Tel Aviv, exploring the early social and cultural development of the city, through the lens of Rudi Weissenstein and Hanan Isachar....read more

Henry Moore - Know Before You Go

Learn more about Henry Moore, before seeing the upcoming exhibitionof his work at Tate Britain, which starts on 24 February and continues until August....read more

Oxford Fellows at the LJCC
Jewish Culture Through Christian Eyes: 15th - 17th Century

This lecture will discuss the approach of Christian Hebraists to Jewish literature. The early modern period - from the end of the fifteenth to the mid-seventeenth century - sees a blossoming of study by Christians of Jewish literature in all kinds of forms. Texts are translated into Latin, then discussed and rejected. There was a clearly a strong attraction to Jewish sources usually accompanied by contempt for the Jewish people - but not always. The talk will address the complicated ways in which these Christians appreciated Jewish culture....read more

Music & Maths with Professor Marcus du Sautoy

A unique insight into the patterns and structures that inspire both music and maths. How rhythm and arithmetic play to the same beat; how compositions feed off symmetry and geometry. As Bach’s friend Mizler once said: Music is the act of sounding mathematics!...read more

NEW: Lunchtime Film Club

Starting 20 January. A rare chance to watch features and documentary films from the LJCC’s rich Film Archive, selected by archivist Stuart Libson. Ranging over Britain, the Middle East, Germany, Russia, the US and Jordan - you won’t see these films anywhere else!...read more

Ivy House Play Reading Circle - Plaza Suite by Neil Simon

This month the Ivy House Play Reading Circle will be reading Neil Simon's play in 3 acts, Plaza Suite.

Neil Simon's Plaza Suite is composed of three acts, each involving different characters but all set in Suite 719 of New York City's Plaza Hotel....read more

Hagai Segal in Conversation with Mohammed Fahili

Mohammed Fahili is the Director of the Jewish Arab Community Centre in Acre. Fahili will be talking about his personal experiences of being an Israeli Arab living in Israel as well as the co-existence work that the Centre carries out....read more

Spotlight on Prima Ballerina Doreen Wells

Doreen Wells, former star of the Royal Ballet and now Marchioness of Londonderry, talks to Royal Opera House presenter Ross Alley. Archive footage will be shown and
The Two Pigeons, a favourite ballet of Doreen Wells, will be danced by Royal Ballet soloists Leanne Cope and Paul Kay....read more