Now More Than Ever: Let's Meet in the Classroom

A Message from Tslil

In 2020, following the COVID-19 pandemic, we began offering online courses that have since gained momentum and become a significant part of what we do. Despite this, we never stopped insisting on maintaining in-person meetings – face-to-face classes in Tel Aviv and Jerusalem, tours, workshops, fairs. It’s in these gatherings that we’ve felt our community the strongest.

Our classrooms have always been a home – a place where students and teachers meet between lessons, at the coffee station, on the bench outside. There's no substitute for the magic created in such a shared space. Our classrooms are a space where language is a bridge, where learning is a political act, where human connection is the beginning of change. We've always maintained a critical, compassionate, and open space – one that challenges reality and doesn’t take it for granted.

After October 7th, our in-person courses took a severe hit, and for almost two years now, we've been operating in an unstable reality that threatens their existence. Our intensive courses – which used to take place every morning in Tel Aviv and brought a sense of life and activity into the space – have hardly recovered.

In the past two weeks, following the war Israel initiated with Iran, we’re once again facing a real threat: more than half of the in-person courses scheduled to start on July 13th are at risk of not opening due to low registration.

Thankfully, a ceasefire agreement has been reached, and it looks like we’ll be able to hold the classes as planned – but to do that, we need people to sign up. We’re eager to keep meeting you in the classroom – to chat during breaks, to have coffee together, to build friendships. The classroom is a safe space to share thoughts and ideas, even ones that can’t always be voiced outside. If you have friends or family in Tel Aviv, Jerusalem, or Haifa (or anywhere!)  who you think would connect with our courses – tell them about us. Help us keep doing what we love so much.