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Fri 27

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, Chaver Paver, 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.

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Register ➜Total Program Fee: $108.0011 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: $54.0092 spaces open
Sun 01

- Pacific Time

Critical Perspectives on Israel & Palestine: No State Solution

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.

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Register ➜Total Program Fee: $18.0077 spaces open
Mon 02

Starts on - Pacific Time Series

Vanity of Vanities: Meaninglessness from Ecclesiastes to Today

Virtual Program
This course explores the urgent, ancient question of meaning, purpose, and futility through the lens of "vanity"—both as biblical emptiness (fleeting as breath) and modern self-obsession.

Starting with the Book of Ecclesiastes, we will study scripture, novels, essays, and films that ask: what makes life meaningful amidst crisis, death, and the absurd? This inquiry feels especially urgent in our age of social media, AI, and climate emergency.

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Register ➜Total Program Fee: $72.0089 spaces open
Wed 04

Starts on - Pacific Time Series

Worldmaking in Action: How Children's Literature Imagined Jewish Futures

Virtual Program
Between 1900 and 1950, nearly a thousand Yiddish children's books appeared across four continents: chickens learning Yiddish, children with magical powers, a democracy-loving mutt. In this four-session course, National Jewish Book Award-winner Miriam Udel explores these "blueprints" for modern Jewish life.

These weren't just entertaining stories; they carried competing visions from socialism to Zionism, cultural revival to secular nationalism. Togeth... Read more

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Register ➜Total Program Fee: $72.0096 spaces open
Sun 08

- Pacific Time

The Roots of Doikayt

Virtual Program
Doikayt, or "hereness" in Yiddish, has become a common catchphrase among Jewish critics of Zionism, who cite its importance for the Jewish Labor Bund. But what are the origins of the term? And how did it fit into the Bund's ideology? This lecture presents some research into these questions and proposes an alternative origin for doikayt that forces us to rethink its more recent uses.

Who this is for: Anyone interested in Jewish history, Yiddish c... Read more

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Register ➜Total Program Fee: $18.0096 spaces open
Thu 12

Starts on - Pacific Time Series

Radical Jewish Reading Circle: Gustav Landauer

Virtual Program

In early 1919, Gustav Landauer was murdered by paramilitary thugs in Munich. He was a visionary, a philosopher, and a martyr for a world built on mutual aid rather than state violence. This month, as we grapple with the recent, echoing violence of paramilitary forces right here in our own country, Landauer’s life and thought feel less like history and more like a mirror. Landauer believed that the state is not a building or a border, but a mode of behavior—a way we treat one another. “We dest... Read more

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Sun 22

- Pacific Time

Critical Perspectives on Israel & Palestine: Standing Together

Virtual Program
In partnership with the New Israel Fund

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 di... Read more

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Sun 05

Starts on - Pacific Time Series

Judeo-Moroccan Arabic 1

Virtual Program
This course begins with an overview of Judeo-Arabic as a linguistic tradition, then focuses on the Arabic dialects historically spoken by Jewish communities in Morocco. Students will explore how these dialects are recorded and written using the Jewish (Hebrew) alphabet, and will gain hands-on exposure to the language through short texts, simple dialogues, and characteristic expressions drawn from everyday use. The course also includes practical exercises and introduces the basic grammatical... Read more

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Register ➜Total Program Fee: $150.0022 spaces open
Sun 05

Starts on - Pacific Time Series

Prayerbook/Biblical Hebrew 3

Virtual Program
The third of a three-course sequence, this class is designed for those who have completed New Lehrhaus Hebrew 1 and 2 (or equivalent) and have a working Hebrew vocabulary of about 250 words and are familiar with the grammar of nouns, adjectives, possessive endings and past and present tense verbs. It’s also a great choice for students with basic reading skills who seek a general grammar review.

This term, we’ll learn about:

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Register ➜Total Program Fee: $115.0040 spaces open
Sun 05

Starts on - Pacific Time Series

Reading Biblical Texts · The King David Phenomenon: King, Warrior, Lover, Movie Star

Virtual Program
Few Biblical characters have so captured the imagination over the millennia as King David: shepherd, musician, warrior, lover, king. Yet he was also ruthless, adulterous, opportunistic, and the head of family far more dysfunctional than any depicted in a modern soap opera.

But what is fact and what is fiction? Our class will explore the texts (both in Hebrew and English translation), recent archaeological discoveries, and opinions of ancient and modern comment... Read more

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Register ➜Total Program Fee: $115.0040 spaces open
Tue 14

Starts on - Pacific Time Series

Radical Jewish Reading Circle: Emma Goldman

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 turn to Emma Goldman, the anarchist firebrand who declared: "The most violent element in society is ignorance." Born in 1869 to a Jewish family in Kovno, Russian Empire (present-day Lithuania), Goldman became the most notorious anarchist in America. A fearless advocate of free speech, birth control, ... Read more

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Register ➜Total Program Fee: $54.0019 spaces open
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