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Mon 15

Starts on - Pacific Time Series

Jehon Grist · Prayerbook/Biblical Hebrew 1: Accelerated

Virtual Program
Complete our Hebrew 1 curriculum in just four weeks! Starting December 15, this eight-session course uses Prayerbook Hebrew the Easy Way, with two recorded lessons released each week so you can study at your own pace. Weekly live online sessions with the instructor give you the chance to ask questions and get guidance. By the end of the course, you’ll be ready to continue with Hebrew 2 in January!

Schedule: Two we... Read more

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Register ➜Total Program Fee: $115.0032 spaces open
Thu 18

- Pacific Time

Erich Gruen & Ron Hendel · Hanukkah: Resistance or Accommodation?

Virtual Program

Brave Maccabees defeat the evil Seleucid Empire and rededicate the Temple; miracle oil burns for eight days (thus the latkes). Not really...the Books of the Maccabees tell a far messier tale.

Yes, Hanukkah celebrates a stirring victory of Jewish forces, led by Judah Maccabee, over those of the Greco-Syrian king Antiochus Epiphanes, who had sought to stamp out the religion, rituals, and institutions of the Jewish nation. But the historical record is more complicated. It was no... Read more

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Register ➜Total Program Fee: $18.0069 spaces open
Sun 21

- Pacific Time

Miriam Udel · Modern Jewish Worldmaking Through Yiddish Children’s Literature

Virtual Program
In partnership with KlezCalifornia

What would you do to make the world better for the children in your life? Around the turn of the twentieth century, a group of Yiddish-speaking educators, authors, and cultural leaders undertook a bold project: creating a corpus of nearly one thousand books and several periodicals, which flourished in conjunction with the secular Yiddish school systems that spanned th... Read more

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Register ➜Total Program Fee: $18.0093 spaces open
Tue 23

- Pacific Time

Jordan Chad · Christmas in Yiddish Tradition

Virtual Program
In partnership with KlezCalifornia

Back in Europe, Yiddish-speaking Jews traditionally let loose on Christmas Eve with feasting, drinking, dancing, and gambling. Scholars have previously assumed that this Christmas Eve vacation from Torah study was some sort of antagonistic counterculture to Christians celebrating Christmas. But Jordan Chad’s recent book Christmas in Yiddish Tradition: the Untold Story* reveals that the Christmas traditions ... Read more

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Register ➜Total Program Fee: $18.0093 spaces open

Wed 07

Starts on - Pacific Time Series

Moriel Rothman-Zecher · Reading and Writing Grief and Surrender

Virtual Program
In this three-part seminar, led by novelist and poet Moriel Rothman-Zecher, we will focus on both reading and writing poetry and fiction that deal with themes of grief and surrender. Each class will begin with a grounding check-in, and a discussion of what roles reading and writing poetry and fiction, in particular, can play in grieving, and what roles grief can play in our art-making. In other words, we will examine the two-directional street of transforming “my pain” into a part of “the p... Read more
Register ➜Total Program Fee: $54.00100 spaces open
Tue 13

Starts on - Pacific Time Series

Anthony Mordechai Tzvi Russell · Convergence: African American and Eastern European Musical Traditions

Virtual Program
Join us for an engaging series of conversations led by acclaimed multidisciplinary artist and educator Anthony Mordechai Tzvi Russell exploring the music, narratives and histories behind his 2018 EP covering a century of African American and Ashkenazi Jewish music, Convergence.

This class presents an interactive opportunity to engage with the distinct similarities and differences of Ashkenazi Jewish and Black American historical experience and examine how thos... Read more
Register ➜Total Program Fee: $54.00100 spaces open
Thu 15

Starts on - Pacific Time Series

Robby Adler Peckerar · Radical Jewish Reading Circle

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 Rosa Luxemburg, starting with her famous 1917 letter to Mathilde Wurm, in which she declared: "I have no special corner in my heart for the ghetto: I am at home in the entire world wherever there are clouds and birds and human tears." Born in 1871 to a Jewish family in Russian-controlled Poland, Lux... Read more
Register ➜Total Program Fee: $54.0015 spaces open
Mon 19

Starts on - Pacific Time Series

Karen Zumhagen-Yekplé · Vanity of Vanities: Meaningless 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: $54.00100 spaces open
Tue 20

Starts on - Pacific Time Series

Jehon Grist · A Tour of Ancient Israel

Virtual Program
This richly illustrated class explores the lifeways, places, and events of ancient Israelite civilization, from the Age of the Patriarchs and Matriarchs to the early rabbinic era. We'll visit the region's most important ancient sites, covering the millennia from 1500 BCE to 500 CE. We'll discover daily life in ancient times: what people ate and drank; how, where, and what they worshipped; the battles won and lost; and the kings, queens, and prophets who shaped this history. Studying this an... Read more

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Register ➜Total Program Fee: $108.0099 spaces open
Sun 25

Starts on - Pacific Time Series

Jehon Grist · Prayerbook/Biblical Hebrew 2

Virtual Program
The second semester of a three-semester sequence, this course is designed for those who have completed New Lehrhaus Hebrew 1 or equivalent, have a working Hebrew vocabulary of 75–100 words and are familiar with the grammar of nouns, adjectives, possessive endings and simple participles. It’s also a great choice for students with basic sight-reading skills who need a general review.

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Register ➜Total Program Fee: $115.0039 spaces open
Sun 25

Starts on - Pacific Time Series

Jehon Grist · Prophets and Prophecy (True and False) in the Biblical World

Virtual Program
Who were the prophets, how did they come to be prophets/esses, and how were their visions expressed and received? Our class will explore these and other questions, not only for prophets of the Bible, but also for the prophetic profession in the rest of the ancient Near East. Then we'll explore specific Biblical texts that inform our understanding of the prophet and his role in society. A special focus will be the endemic problem of the 'false prophet' in Biblical Literature. In the process,... Read more

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Register ➜Total Program Fee: $115.0040 spaces open

Tue 24

Starts on - Pacific Time Series

Julia Peck · 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: $150.0040 spaces open
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