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Crisis in Israel: What Happened? What's Next? (Zoom only)
Our experts explain the Judicial Reform crisis.
Prof. Fania Oz-Salzberger (Haifa University Emerita, History & Law)
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Short film: Deciding Vote (In person only @ SF Jewish Film Festival)
In partnership with SF Jewish Film Festival
Fifty years ago, a now forgotten New York Republican assemblyman cast a single tiebreaking vote that legalized abortion in New York and laid the groundwork for Roe v. Wade. Playing as part of Jews in Shorts: Documentaries.
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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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Tu Be’Av: The Little-Known Jewish Summer Love Festival (Zoom only)
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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Remembering Marrakesh (In person only @ SF Jewish Film Festival)
In partnership with the SF Jewish Film Festival
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Avi Blitz: The Tsenerene, the Most Popular Yiddish Book in History
A partnership program with YIVO, New York
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Andrew Porwancher: The Jewish World of Alexander Hamilton (Virtual on Zoom)
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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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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Aliza Grayevsky Somekh: Breads of the Jews (In Person or on Zoom)
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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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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Ariel Mayse & Urban Adamah Staff: A Land of Milk and Honey (In Person or on Zoom)
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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Soil to Soul: Agriculture and Jewish Culture series
A partnership program of Urban Adamah and New Lehrhaus, and with Jewish Food Society
Click the session titles below to reach the individual registration pages.
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