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David Biale: What Really Happened on Hanukkah? (Virtual on Zoom)
In partnership with Osher Marin JCC and Temple Sinai
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Time to Cancel “Cancel Culture”? (Virtual on Zoom)
In partnership with the East Bay International Jewish Film Festival and the Contra Costa Jewish Community Center
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Yair Qedar, Robert Alter & Fania Oz-Salzberger: The Fourth Window Documentary Film about Amos Oz: Film Screening and Panel Discussion (Virtual on Zoom)
In partnership with the Jewish Studies Program at UC Berkeley and the Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life, the Helen Diller Institute for Jewish Law and Israel Studies at UC Berkeley, and the Jewish Film Institute
Amos Oz is Israel’s best-known writer and a champion of peace with the Palestinians in a two-state solution, as a prominent member of Peace Now (Shalom Achshav) and a public intellectual. His work - a body of 40 books - has been translated to 45 l... Read more
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Yair Qedar, Robert Alter & Fania Oz-Salzberger: "The Fourth Window" Documentary Film about Amos Oz: Film Screening and Panel Discussion (In Person Only)
In person at the Magnes Museum in Berkeley.
In partnership with the Jewish Studies Program and the Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life, the Helen Diller Institute for Jewish Law and Israel Studies at UC Berkeley, the Jewish Film Institute, and the Consulate General of Israel, San Francisco.
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Rachel Biale: Lost and Found Book Launch (In Person Only)
Join Rachel Biale for the launch of her historical novel, Lost and Found, based on the true story of a Viennese Jewish family on the refugee boat with Rachel’s parents, all fleeing Nazi-occupied Europe. Apprehended at sea by the British Navy, the family, with other refugees, boards the Patria, a large ship in the Haifa harbor, to be deported to the island of Mauritius. Moments after their arrival on the Patria deck there is an explosion; the ship sinks and their four-year-old boy disappears. The novel weaves a fictional narrative from that point forward, anchored in the family’s true story and built on historically authentic portrayals of WWII Haifa, a city shared (as it is today) by Moslems, Jews and Christians. Each community plays a key role as the drama unfolds.
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Robert Alter & Ron Hendel: The Bible Now - Qohelet (Ecclesiastes) (Virtual on Zoom)
In partnership with Temple Isaiah, Temple Sinai and Congregation Beth El
Qohelet (or Kohellet, Ecclesiastes) is one of the strangest and most revolutionary books of the Hebrew Bible. We will explore its poetry and philosophy in the context of biblical and ancient Near Eastern wisdom literature.
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Uri Schreter: Oh, the Hora! American Klezmer and Israeli Folk Music in Conversation (Virtual on Zoom)
In partnership with KlezCalifornia
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Ken Bob: What Now? Analysis of Israel's Elections (Virtual on Zoom)
Israel's fifth election in 3 years speaks volumes on its deeply divided society and the fragmentation of its political parties. Ken Bob, who will be in Israel during the election, will sort out the implications of the results of the November 1 elections and walk you through possible scenarios for the formation of a new government. Additional commentary by Bradley Burston, Ha'aretz columnist (emeritus): "A Special Place in Hell."
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Rabbi Peretz Wolf-Prusan: San Francisco Community Talmud Circle (In person or on Zoom)
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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Chana Kronfeld: The Land as Woman—The Afterlife of a Poetic Metaphor in Women’s Modern Hebrew Poetry (Zoom only)
The Land-as-Woman is one of the most deeply rooted metaphorical systems in Jewish as well as Western and Middle-Eastern cultures, used to support the discourses of colonialism and nationalism throughout history. It has its origins in the Hebrew Bible. In modern Hebrew poetry modernist women poets critique a tradition that views women always as metaphors, never as literal subjects, developing a new erotics of the address to the land that calls into question patriarchal models of conquest and subjugation.
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Jehon Grist—Pharaoh of the Exodus? Ramses II and His Times: Celebrating the de Young Museum Exhibit (Virtual on Zoom)
In partnership with Sha'ar Zahav and the Peninsula Jewish Community Center
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