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Sun 01

- Pacific Time

Critical Perspectives on Israel & Palestine: No State Solution

Virtual Program

Critical Perspectives on Israel & Palestine consists of five stand-alone sessions, each requiring separate registration. These sessions invite participants into serious, pluralistic engagement with sharply different analyses and visions for the future of Israel/Palestine. We'll also examine the moral and political frameworks that shape those visions.

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Sun 01

Starts on - Pacific Time Series

Borges for Beginners

Virtual Program
The Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges never wrote a novel, yet his short stories, essays, poems, and lectures inspired generations, from Gabriel García Márquez to Paul Auster, W.G. Sebald, and Benjamín Labatut. He remains a central figure in literary history, and his works continue to spark new ideas and interpretations.

In this class, we will explore his essential works, beginning with the classic stories "Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius" and "The Aleph... Read more

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Fri 27

Starts on - Pacific Time Series

Reading Yiddish Texts: The Yiddish Stage • Classic One-Act Plays

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Step into the vibrant world of early twentieth-century Yiddish theater while advancing your language skills through the dramatic works of Peretz Hirschbein, Chaver Paver, and Sholem Aleichem. This six-session online course uses classic one-act plays as a rich linguistic resource, where dialogue reveals the rhythms of spoken Yiddish and dramatic texts illuminate idiomatic expression, cultural context, and the textures of Eastern European Jewish life.

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Tue 24

Starts on - Pacific Time Series

Ladino 1: Judeo-Spanish Language & Culture

Virtual Program
Haberes buenos (good news): you’re invited to join New Lehrhaus’s brand-new Ladino course! This six-session course offers an introduction to Ladino, the Judeo-Spanish language whose evolution traces the very history of the Sephardic people. With roots in 15th-century languages of the Iberian Peninsula, Ladino has spent the past five centuries evolving separately from Spanish and in close contact with languages of the Mediterranean, especially Turkish, Arabic, Greek, and other Balkan ... Read more

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Thu 19

- Pacific Time

The Megillah of Esther: (Re)Reading a Silly Story for Adults

Virtual Program
In partnership with Congregation Sha'ar Zahav, San Francisco
We know the story of Purim as a classic narrative of good and evil with a triumphant ending: "Now let's eat!" — but the narrative is worthy of a closer reading. The biblical book is a bawdy, sometimes slap-stick, sometimes serious work of fiction which conceals and reveals its purpose and meanings while giving us insights into the fantasies and reality of the Jewish world of its creators. We will read and discus... Read more

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Wed 18

- Pacific Time

Philip Roth: Stung by Life

Virtual Program
Join New Lehrhaus director Dr. Robby Adler Peckerar for an online discussion of Steven J. Zipperstein's groundbreaking literary biography of Philip Roth one of America's most celebrated writers. Drawing on extensive archival materials and over one hundred interviews—including conversations with Roth himself—Zipperstein explores the unprecedented range of Roth's work, from Goodbye, Columbus and Portnoy's Complaint to the Pulitzer Prize–winning American Pastoral, placing his wri... Read more

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Thu 12

- Pacific Time

Exploring Hasidism: Meet the Baal Shem Tov

Virtual Program
This program is presented in memory of David Biale.

Who was Rabbi Yisra’el ben Eli‘ezer of Mezhbizh (the Baal Shem Tov), Hasidism's legendary “founder”? His religious personality defies easy categories. Through his students and followers, he ignited a popular revivalist movement—an explosive spiritual force that has profoundly shaped modern Jewish life. For nearly three centuries, his image has captivated historians, scholars, artists, storytellers,... Read more

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Mon 09

Starts on - Pacific Time Series

Stranger than a Golem: The Hidden World of the Maharal of Prague

Virtual Program
Rabbi Judah Loew ben Bezalel (1524-1609)—the Maharal of Prague—is famous for the Golem legend, but his actual philosophical and theological system is far more complex and daring than the myth suggests. Together, we will explore selections from the Maharal’s prolific writings, examining his ideas about language, Torah study, the nature of time, and the relationship between the divine and the material world. The Maharal's unique blend of rationalism and mysticism has much to offer the modern ... Read more

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Sun 08

- Pacific Time

Critical Perspectives on Israel & Palestine: Feminism & Activism in the Knesset

Virtual Program

Critical Perspectives on Israel & Palestine consists of five stand-alone sessions, each requiring separate registration. These sessions invite participants into serious, pluralistic engagement with sharply different analyses and visions for the future of Israel/Palestine. We'll also examine the moral and political frameworks that shape those visions.

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Sun 01

- Pacific Time

Critical Perspectives on Israel/Palestine: Diplomacy, Poetry, and the Druze Experience

Virtual Program

Critical Perspectives on Israel & Palestine consists of five stand-alone sessions, each requiring separate registration.  These sessions invite participants into serious, pluralistic engagement with sharply different analyses and visions for the future of Israel/Palestine. We'll also examine the moral and political frameworks that shape those visions.

In each session, we feature a scholar, organizer, or public leader offering a distinct criti... Read more

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Mon 26

- Pacific Time

Critical Perspectives on Israel & Palestine: New Jewish Narrative

Virtual Program

Critical Perspectives on Israel & Palestine consists of five stand-alone sessions, each requiring separate registration. These sessions invite participants into serious, pluralistic engagement with sharply different analyses and visions for the future of Israel/Palestine. We'll also examine the moral and political frameworks that shape those visions.

In each session, we feature a scholar, organizer, or public leader offering a distinct critical le... Read more

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Sun 25

Starts on - Pacific Time Series

Reading Biblical Texts: Prophets and Prophecy in the Biblical World

Virtual Program
Who were the prophets and prophetesses, how did they come to be so, and how were their visions expressed and received? Our class will explore these and other questions, not only for prophets of the Bible, but also for the prophetic profession in the rest of the ancient Near East. Then we'll explore specific Biblical texts that inform our understanding of the prophet and his role in society. A special focus will be the endemic problem of the 'false prophet' in Biblical Literature. In the pro... Read more

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