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Wed 18

- Pacific Time

Philip Roth: Stung by Life

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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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Sun 25

Starts on - Pacific Time Series

Prayerbook/Biblical Hebrew 2

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The second semester of a three-semester sequence, this course is designed for those who have completed New Lehrhaus Hebrew 1 or equivalent, have a working Hebrew vocabulary of 75–100 words and are familiar with the grammar of nouns, adjectives, possessive endings and simple participles. It’s also a great choice for students with basic sight-reading skills who need a general review.

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Tue 20

Starts on - Pacific Time Series

A Tour of Ancient Israel

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This richly illustrated class explores the lifeways, places, and events of ancient Israelite civilization, from the Age of the Patriarchs and Matriarchs to the early rabbinic era. We'll visit the region's most important ancient sites, covering the millennia from 1500 BCE to 500 CE. We'll discover daily life in ancient times: what people ate and drank; how, where, and what they worshipped; the battles won and lost; and the kings, queens, and prophets who shaped this history. Studying this an... Read more

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Thu 15

Starts on - Pacific Time Series

Radical Jewish Reading Circle: Rosa Luxemburg

Virtual Program
Join us for the Radical Jewish Reading Circle: three evenings of reading, thinking, and conversation about radical thinkers of Jewish origin.

This month we turn to Rosa Luxemburg, starting with her famous 1917 letter to Mathilde Wurm, in which she declared: "I have no special corner in my heart for the ghetto: I am at home in the entire world wherever there are clouds and birds and human tears." Born in 1871 to a Jewish family in Russian-controlled Poland, Lux... Read more

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Tue 13

Starts on - Pacific Time Series

Convergence in Conversation: Music, Narratives, and History

Virtual Program
Join us for an engaging series of conversations led by acclaimed multidisciplinary artist and educator Anthony Mordechai Tzvi Russell exploring the music, narratives and histories behind his 2018 EP covering a century of African American and Ashkenazic Jewish music, Convergence.
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Wed 07

Starts on - Pacific Time Series

Reading and Writing Grief and Surrender

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In this three-part seminar, led by novelist and poet Moriel Rothman-Zecher, we will focus on both reading and writing poetry and fiction that deal with themes of grief and surrender. Each class will begin with a grounding check-in, and a discussion of what roles reading and writing poetry and fiction, in particular, can play in grieving, and what roles grief can play in our art-making. In other words, we will examine the two-directional street of transforming “my pain” into a part of “the p... Read more

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