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Wed 02

- Pacific Time

Rabbi Mychal Copeland—Tu Be’Av: The Little-Known Jewish Summer Love Festival (In-person only)

Part of Chew-ish & Jew-ish: Lunch & Learn at Manny’s Café. 

In partnership with Congregation Sha'ar Zahav in San Francisco.

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Location

Manny's

3092 16th Street
San Francisco, CA 94103 + Google Map
Tue 01

- Pacific Time

Tu Be’Av: The Little-Known Jewish Summer Love Festival (Zoom only)

Virtual Program

On Tu Be'Av (the fifteenth of Av), "the daughters of Jerusalem would go out and dance in the vineyards. And what would they say? 'Young man, lift up your eyes and see—whom would you choose.'" (Talmud, Ta'anit). Learn about the holiday and dip into romantic love stories from the Bible and Midrash.

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Tue 01

- Pacific Time

Remembering Marrakesh (In person only @ SF Jewish Film Festival)

In partnership with the SF Jewish Film Festival

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Location

Piedmont Theater

4186 Piedmont Ave #5133
Oakland, CA 94611 + Google Map

Tue 18

- Pacific Time

Avi Blitz: The Tsenerene, the Most Popular Yiddish Book in History

A partnership program with YIVO, New York

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Instructor

Sun 09

- Pacific Time

Andrew Porwancher: The Jewish World of Alexander Hamilton (Virtual on Zoom)

Virtual Program

First debunking a string of myths about Hamilton's origins, Prof. Andrew Porwancher arrives at a startling conclusion: Hamilton was, in all likelihood, born and raised Jewish. While he did not identify as a Jew in his American adulthood, Hamilton emerged as an important advocate for Jewry in the United States. This story offers a fresh insight into a young republic, torn between New World promises and Old World prejudices.

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Sun 02

- Pacific Time

Soil to Soul: Agriculture and Jewish Culture series

A partnership program of Urban Adamah and New Lehrhaus, and with Jewish Food Society

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Sun 02

- Pacific Time

Aliza Grayevsky Somekh: Breads of the Jews (In Person or on Zoom)

Virtual Program

Part of the "Soil to Soul: Agriculture and Jewish Culture" series

Sunday, July 2 @ 3–4:30pm, in-person at Urban Adamah

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Location

Urban Adamah

1151 Sixth Street
Berkeley, CA 94710 + Google Map

Tue 06

- Pacific Time

Ross Benjamin (translator) & Jonathan Brent (YIVO Director)
Franz Kafka: The Diaries (A New Translation)

We are pleased to announce a partnership with YIVO in New York, the premier Institute for Jewish Research in Yiddish Language and Eastern European Jewish Culture.

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Sun 04

- Pacific Time

Ariel Mayse & Urban Adamah Staff: A Land of Milk and Honey (In Person or on Zoom)

Virtual Program

Part of the "Soil to Soul: Agriculture and Jewish Culture" series

Sunday, June 4 @ 3–4:30pm, in-person at Urban Adamah

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Location

Urban Adamah

1151 Sixth Street
Berkeley, CA 94710 + Google Map
Sun 04

- Pacific Time

Soil to Soul: Agriculture and Jewish Culture series

A partnership program of Urban Adamah and New Lehrhaus, and with Jewish Food Society

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Sun 04

- Pacific Time

Jehon Grist & Jim Mavrikios—Heritage and Memory: The Jews of Greece (Zoom Only)

Virtual Program

In partnership with the Jewish Genealogical Society of Oregon

Have an ouzo l'chayim and learn about Jews in the Greek world!

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Thu 01

- Pacific Time

Profs. Sam Shonkoff, Naomi Seidman, David Biale
“Old Boys” at the New Lehrhaus: The Rosenzweig-Buber-Scholem Debate Transported to 2023 (Zoom Only)

Virtual Program

In partnership with the Center for Jewish Studies at the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley, and YIVO in New York

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