• Completes instructor text on the verb patterns and irregular verbs
• Covers three or more passages from The First Hebrew Reader
• Introduces the art and science of Biblical text translation and analysis
• Continues to explore aspects of the Hebrew Bible and its world

Required text: Jessica W. Goldstein, The First Hebrew Reader (J. Goldstein, EKS Publishing, 2000). Separate Instructor text and other materials provided free of charge

This course starts from the beginning and covers the following:

Your Shabbat-Prep Practice 

Eda Pell, our stalwart supporter and most generous donor, sponsors an annual lecture at UC Berkeley: we encourage you to attend.

In partnership with KlezCalifornia

In partnership with Temple Sinai, Oakland

In partnership with The New Israel Fund

The series will feature several projects that create bridges of collaboration and peace-building between Israelis and Palestinians, as well as neighboring Jordan.

We're pleased to invite you to a Partnership Program with the Taube Center for Jewish Life and Culture in Warsaw.

In partnership with JFCS-East Bay

What are the scope, characteristics, and needs of those facing poverty and economic insecurity in the Bay Area Jewish community? What is our East Bay Jewish community doing to meet those needs?

In partnership with Klez California, the East Bay International Jewish Film Festival, and Temple Isaiah

In partnership with Taube Philanthropies, The Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life and UC Berkeley Center for Jewish Studies

In partnership with KlezCalifornia and the Jewish Community Library

In the 1920s and ’30s, only New York rivaled Warsaw as a capital of Jewish cosmopolitanism. This multimedia presentation will demonstrate the vitality of a community known more for how they died than how they lived.