Walking Tours
In the workshops there is an option to integrate unique walking tours around the museum. The tours lead participants through the city’s alleys to meaningful stops according to the topic, and blend meaningful content, creative and interactive transmission, and a live museum tour experience in Jerusalem. The combination allows understanding and feeling of complex ideas, arousing curiosity and engagement, and touches on topics society needs today.
The tours can be purchased separately as well, without full participation on the seminar day. There are three different tours, focusing on disputes, Jewish identity design, Jerusalem and Israeli identity, and real-life stories about tolerance, conflict, and cohabitation.
The first tour between Beit Hillel and Beit Shammai
In our flagship tour “Between Beit Hillel and Beit Shammai”, we will stroll along the beautiful and moving streets near the museum. Our museum is located between Hillel Street and is also not far from Shammai Street, two that wonderfully represent the culture of dispute in Jewish society.
We will stop at various places that tell different disputes from the Jewish Israeli and Jerusalem world. Many of the disputes still have relevance today.
Together we will examine how the value of tolerance is expressed in each dispute? We will try to examine what is the “for the sake of heaven” dispute that shapes our discussion culture and strengthens tolerance
Between us and what is a dispute that builds walls around us that are sometimes hard to bridge.
At the various stations we will meet and discuss the following disputes:
The dispute from the days of the Sanhedrin, about the Pharisees and Sadducees, Zionism and religion, about Haredim and seculars,
Dispute around the Hebrew language, ethnic gap and oppression, old vs new, and more
We will weave contemporary connections into the historical perspective within all this. We will do this while enjoying the beauty of downtown Jerusalem.
Duration of the tour
About two and a half hours
Target audience
Adolescents in high school, teachers, educators and community members, tourists, and more
Between Madness and Greatness in the Big City
This crazy tour follows one of the most fascinating phenomena the city has to offer – the ‘Jerusalem Syndrome’. Throughout history, Jerusalem has been a pilgrimage site. People went crazy about it, but even more so people went crazy when visiting it.
A thin line separates going crazy about the city from losing one’s mind? from greatness? In our tour we will examine this line through some of the figures who made this city what it is.
Some were considered crazy in their lifetimes and their greatness revealed only later, others managed and rose to greatness during their lives. All visited Jerusalem and all have streets named after them or lived near our museum.
Through their stories we will stand on that fine line between madness and greatness.
We will try to ask ourselves what tolerance is required for us to contain the ‘madness’ of geniuses in order for society to develop, but on the other hand, we will ask when madness is such that it harms us as a society and endangers us and what we need to do to control it?
We will connect this to the phenomenon on social networks of true and fake experts and influencers and the leadership and influence of these figures.
Duration of the tour
About two and a half hours
Target audience
Adolescents in high school, teachers, educators and community members, tourists, and more
Stigmas in Jerusalem - Pride and Prejudice
In the tour “Pride and Prejudice”, we will examine together the labels we tend to assign to communities and individuals in Jerusalem and beyond. In the area within less than a kilometer from the tolerance museum you can find various and unique communities and denominations, united by one thing in common: prejudices
In our tour, which starts from the Tolerance Museum that has placed values such as pluralism and equality on its banner, we will hold a discussion and try to understand together what causes these prejudices? Why do we define our identity by assuming labels about the identity of the other? And, mainly, how do we get rid of those prejudices?
We will aim to highlight to the visitors’ eyes special stories that will change our perspective on Jerusalem and the communities there. And we will try to assemble critical glasses so that we can see that things are not always as they were told to us and that there is always room for surprises and changes.
This tour is usually combined with a workshop called – “Journey Between Identities”
Duration of the tour
About two and a half hours
Target audience
Adolescents in high school, teachers, educators and community members, tourists, and more
