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Sun 15

- Pacific Time

Jehon Grist: Prayerbook/Biblical Hebrew 1 (Zoom only)

Virtual Program

This three-semester sequence gives you the essential knowledge and skills to read, understand and appreciate Prayerbook texts and the Hebrew Bible. It starts at the beginning, teaching the alphabet and sight-reading skills, then moves on to build both vocabulary and grammar knowledge using the text Prayerbook Hebrew the Easy Way. And along the way, you’ll learn about related topics, from key Prayerbook melodies to the origins of Hebrew to life in the Biblical world.

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Instructor

Sun 15

- Pacific Time

Robert Alter—Amos Oz: Writer, Activist, Icon (In Person Only)

In partnership with the Jewish Community Library

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Location

Jewish Community Library

1835 Ellis Street
San Francisco, CA 94115 + Google Map

Instructor

Sun 15

- Pacific Time Series

Rabbi Peretz Wolf-Prusan: San Francisco Community Talmud Circle (In person or on Zoom)

Virtual Program

The Bay Area Community Talmud Circle is a growing, dynamic and welcoming community of adult participants engaged in modern Talmud study and active conversation. While the majority of participants are continuing students, anyone may join!  No prior experience with Talmud Study is required.  Curiosity, openness, and unconditional mutual regard are all one needs.

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Location

JCCSF

3200 California Street
San Francisco, CA 94118 + Google Map
Fri 13

Starts on - Pacific Time Series

Rabbi Peretz Wolf-Prusan—Readings from the Zohar: Commentary on the Weekly Torah Portion (Zoom only)

Virtual Program

Join us on Fridays at noon for a look at the Torah Portion of the week through the portal of the Zohar. The gate pictured here is the entrance to the garden of Moses de Leon, the compiler of the Zohar. He published it as a weekly Torah companion, and that is how we will encounter it.

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Thu 12

- Pacific Time

Dr. Jehon Grist—The Jews of Spain: Their Story (In Person or on Zoom)

In this richly illustrated course, we’ll start by searching out the beginnings of Jewish Spain over 2,000 years ago, including the Roman and later Visigothic centuries. Then we’ll focus on the Muslim invasion and the Golden Age of Islamic Spain that followed. This was the era of La Convivencia, when Jews, Christians and Muslims lived largely in peace and shared and contributed to a common culture far advanced beyond the rest of Europe’s states. From there, we’ll chronicle the slow but steady advance of Christian armies, finally leading to the Expulsion of Jews (and Muslims) from Spain in 1492 and later years. We’ll close with a look at the fate of Sephardic Jews after the Expulsion as well as the fate of Spain in those centuries right up to today.

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Location

Congregation Am Tikvah

625 Brotherhood Way
San Francisco, CA 94132 + Google Map

Instructor

Wed 11

- Pacific Time

Fred Rosenbaum & Prof. Yong Chen—From Animosity to Solidarity: Jews and Chinese in San Francisco from the Gold Rush to the Present (Zoom only)

Virtual Program

In partnership with Congregation Beth Am and CCJCC's "Under One Tent"

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Tue 10

- Pacific Time Series

Daniel Matt: Exploring the Zohar (Virtual on Zoom)

A partnership program of New Lehrhaus

In this course we read and study the Zohar, the masterpiece of Kabbalah. Currently, we are exploring the Zohar on the Book of Genesis. Students can enroll in the current series, held live on Zoom.

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Tue 10

Starts on - Pacific Time Series

Rabbi Molly Karp—Buber and Heschel: Encountering the I-Thou and Articulating the Ineffable (Zoom only)

Virtual Program

Martin Buber was born in Vienna in 1878, and was a utopian Zionist. He is best-known for his book I and Thou, which focuses on how people relate to the world. For Buber, our relationship with the Divine, and as much as possible with each other, should be I-Thou rather than I-It relationships.

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Mon 09

- Pacific Time

Ken Blady: Yiddish Reading Salon (Zoom only)

Virtual Program

In partnership with KlezCalifornia

In this strictly reading and iberzetsn (translating) Yiddish class, students will have an opportunity to read various myselekh (stories), pamelekh (slowly) and mit geduld (with patience), so that even those who have only “cheder” (elementary school) level proficiency can participate and follow along. The instructor will provide PDF readers in Yiddish with English translation.

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Sun 08

- Pacific Time

Maggid Jhos Singer: Jews and Booze? Yeah, Really! (In person only)

Gather with 30- to 40-something friends (must be over 21) to hear Maggid Singer reveal some of Judaism's connections to their sacred inebriant, alcohol, throughout the centuries. From references in the Torah to the outsized role Jews played in establishing and perfecting the most American of spirits—Bourbon—alcohol has maintained a steady presence in Jewish culture for millennia. How then did Jews get the reputation for being uninvolved in alcohol? What is kosher... Read more

Location

Covenant Wines

1102 Sixth Street
Berkeley, CA 94710 + Google Map

Instructor

Thu 05

- Pacific Time

Sukkot Film Screening: The Route of the Citron by Izza Genini (In Person Only)

In partnership with Urban Adamah

Join us for a screening of The Route of the Citron (Etrog) by award winning filmmaker Izza Genini.

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Location

Urban Adamah

1151 Sixth Street
Berkeley, CA 94710 + Google Map

Instructor

Thu 05

- Pacific Time

Dr. Jehon Grist—The Jews of Spain: Their Story (In Person or on Zoom)

Virtual Program

In this richly illustrated course, we’ll start by searching out the beginnings of Jewish Spain over 2,000 years ago, including the Roman and later Visigothic centuries. Then we’ll focus on the Muslim invasion and the Golden Age of Islamic Spain that followed. This was the era of La Convivencia, when Jews, Christians and Muslims lived largely in peace and shared and contributed to a common culture far advanced beyond the rest of Europe’s states. From there, we’ll chronicle the slow but steady advance of Christian armies, finally leading to the Expulsion of Jews (and Muslims) from Spain in 1492 and later years. We’ll close with a look at the fate of Sephardic Jews after the Expulsion as well as the fate of Spain in those centuries right up to today.

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Location

Congregation Am Tikvah

625 Brotherhood Way
San Francisco, CA 94132 + Google Map

Instructor

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