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Sun 01

- Pacific Time

Critical Perspectives on Israel/Palestine: Diplomacy, Poetry, and the Druze Experience

Virtual Program

Critical Perspectives on Israel & Palestine consists of five stand-alone sessions, each requiring separate registration.  These sessions invite participants into serious, pluralistic engagement with sharply different analyses and visions for the future of Israel/Palestine. We'll also examine the moral and political frameworks that shape those visions.

In each session, we feature a scholar, organizer, or public leader offering a distinct criti... Read more

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Register ➜Total Program Fee: $18.0094 spaces open
Wed 04

Starts on - Pacific Time Series

Canon to Canvas: Biblical Texts in Art

Virtual Program
How have artists across centuries interpreted the Bible's most iconic narratives? What do their visual choices reveal about how different eras understood sacred text? In this four-part series, renowned biblical scholars Robert Alter and Ron Hendel, in conversation with art historians, explore how scripture has been translated into visual art. Through close readings of biblical passages paired with careful analysis of masterworks by Caravaggio, Rembrandt, and others, we'll examine ho... Read more

Instructor

Register ➜Total Program Fee: $72.0083 spaces open
Sun 08

- Pacific Time

Critical Perspectives on Israel & Palestine: Feminism & Activism in the Knesset

Virtual Program

Critical Perspectives on Israel & Palestine consists of five stand-alone sessions, each requiring separate registration. These sessions invite participants into serious, pluralistic engagement with sharply different analyses and visions for the future of Israel/Palestine. We'll also examine the moral and political frameworks that shape those visions.

In each session, we feature a scholar, organizer, or public leader offering a distinct critical le... Read more

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Register ➜Total Program Fee: $18.0096 spaces open
Mon 09

Starts on - Pacific Time Series

Stranger than a Golem: The Hidden World of the Maharal of Prague

Virtual Program
Rabbi Judah Loew ben Bezalel (1524-1609)—the Maharal of Prague—is famous for the Golem legend, but his actual philosophical and theological system is far more complex and daring than the myth suggests. Together, we will explore selections from the Maharal’s prolific writings, examining his ideas about language, Torah study, the nature of time, and the relationship between the divine and the material world. The Maharal's unique blend of rationalism and mysticism has much to offer the modern ... Read more

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Register ➜Total Program Fee: $54.0091 spaces open
Tue 10

Starts on - Pacific Time Series

Radical Jewish Reading Circle: Gustav Landauer

Virtual Program
Join us for the Radical Jewish Reading Circle: three evenings of reading, thinking, and conversation about radical thinkers of Jewish origin.

This month we explore Gustav Landauer, the anarchist philosopher and activist who wrote: "The state is a condition, a certain relationship between human beings, a mode of behavior; we destroy it by contracting other relationships, by behaving differently toward one another." Born in 1870 to a Jewish family in Karl... Read more

Instructor

Register ➜Total Program Fee: $54.0020 spaces open
Thu 12

- Pacific Time

Exploring Hasidism: Meet the Baal Shem Tov

Virtual Program
This program is presented in memory of David Biale.

Who was Rabbi Yisra’el ben Eli‘ezer of Mezhbizh (the Baal Shem Tov), Hasidism's legendary “founder”? His religious personality defies easy categories. Through his students and followers, he ignited a popular revivalist movement—an explosive spiritual force that has profoundly shaped modern Jewish life. For nearly three centuries, his image has captivated historians, scholars, artists, storytellers,... Read more

Instructor

Register ➜Total Program Fee: $18.0086 spaces open
Wed 18

- Pacific Time

Philip Roth: Stung by Life

Virtual Program
Join New Lehrhaus director Dr. Robby Adler Peckerar for an online discussion of Steven J. Zipperstein's groundbreaking literary biography of Philip Roth one of America's most celebrated writers. Drawing on extensive archival materials and over one hundred interviews—including conversations with Roth himself—Zipperstein explores the unprecedented range of Roth's work, from Goodbye, Columbus and Portnoy's Complaint to the Pulitzer Prize–winning American Pastoral, placing his wri... Read more

Instructor

Register ➜Total Program Fee: $18.0090 spaces open
Thu 19

- Pacific Time

The Megillah of Esther: (Re)Reading a Silly Story for Adults

Virtual Program
In partnership with Congregation Sha'ar Zahav, San Francisco
We know the story of Purim as a classic narrative of good and evil with a triumphant ending: "Now let's eat!" — but the narrative is worthy of a closer reading. The biblical book is a bawdy, sometimes slap-stick, sometimes serious work of fiction which conceals and reveals its purpose and meanings while giving us insights into the fantasies and reality of the Jewish world of its creators. We will read and discus... Read more

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Register ➜Total Program Fee: $18.0092 spaces open
Fri 20

Starts on - Pacific Time Series

Reading Yiddish Texts: The Yiddish Stage • Classic One-Act Plays

Virtual Program
Step into the vibrant world of early twentieth-century Yiddish theater while advancing your language skills through the dramatic works of Peretz Hirschbein, Ossip Dymov, and Sholem Aleichem. This six-session online course uses classic one-act plays as a rich linguistic resource, where dialogue reveals the rhythms of spoken Yiddish and dramatic texts illuminate idiomatic expression, cultural context, and the textures of Eastern European Jewish life.

Instructor

Register ➜Total Program Fee: $108.0019 spaces open
Sun 22

- Pacific Time

Critical Perspectives on Israel & Palestine: Standing Together

Virtual Program

Critical Perspectives on Israel & Palestine consists of five stand-alone sessions, each requiring separate registration. These sessions invite participants into serious, pluralistic engagement with sharply different analyses and visions for the future of Israel/Palestine. We'll also examine the moral and political frameworks that shape those visions.

Instructor

Register ➜Total Program Fee: $18.0094 spaces open
Tue 24

Starts on - Pacific Time Series

Ladino 1

Virtual Program
Haberes buenos (good news): you’re invited to join New Lehrhaus’s brand-new Ladino course! This six-session course offers an introduction to Ladino, the Judeo-Spanish language whose evolution traces the very history of the Sephardic people. With roots in 15th-century languages of the Iberian Peninsula, Ladino has spent the past five centuries evolving separately from Spanish and in close contact with languages of the Mediterranean, especially Turkish, Arabic, Greek, and other Balkan ... Read more

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Register ➜Total Program Fee: $150.0039 spaces open

Sun 01

Starts on - Pacific Time Series

Borges for Beginners

Virtual Program
The Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges never wrote a novel, yet his short stories, essays, poems, and lectures inspired generations, from Gabriel García Márquez to Paul Auster, W.G. Sebald, and Benjamín Labatut. He remains a central figure in literary history, and his works continue to spark new ideas and interpretations.

In this class, we will explore his essential works, beginning with the classic stories "Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius" and "The Aleph... Read more

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Register ➜Total Program Fee: $54.0098 spaces open
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