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Seth Rogovoy: The Essential Klezmer
Virtual Program
In partnership with KlezCalifornia
This multimedia program takes audiences on a journey via music, visuals, and storytelling, tracing klezmer's evolution and development from Old World shtetls to New World nightclubs and concert stages. The program includes insights into the sound and shape of klezmer and introduces many of the great heroes who helped transform Eastern European Yiddish wedding music into the vital form of world music it is today.
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Daniel Matt: The Essential Kabbalah
Virtual Program
This program is based on Daniel Matt's book The Essential Kabbalah, an anthology of teachings from various stages of the Jewish mystical tradition, including Sefer Yetsirah, the Bahir, Spanish Kabbalah (including the Zohar), Lurianic Kabbalah, and Hasidism.
Please register directly with Daniel Matt using the link below. The cost is on a sliding scale from $150-$300, depending on what you can afford.
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Register for this ProgramTotal Program Fee: $300.00
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Fred Rosenbaum & Rachel Biale: The Jews of the Rhineland and Alsace
Virtual Program
These preparatory lectures for a New Lehrhaus/Tiyul Jewish Journeys September trip are open to anyone interested in the history of the region, not just trip participants.
Fred Rosenbaum will describe the millennia-long importance of the Rhine River to the economy, culture, and geopolitics of Western Europe with a focus on Frankfurt and the fraught Jewish experience in the region. The lecture will encompass medieval persecution and ghettoization, the ast... Read more
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My Underground Mother: A Film by Marisa Fox
Part of the San Francisco Jewish Film Festival
Freedom fighter, double agent, femme fatale—Tamar said she was all three. Decades after her death, a page she wrote in a diary from a Nazi-run women's camp reveals a hidden identity, leading her daughter on a global reckoning with secrets she took to her grave.
The film uniquely addresses Holocaust sexual trauma and agency, and gives women survivors the platform to tell thei... Read more
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Register for this ProgramTotal Program Fee: $20.00
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Dress Rehearsal for Charpentier's David & Jonathan
Limited tickets available!
Enjoy West Edge Opera's production before it opens! To prepare, watch sessions 1 and 2 of our winter program, "From the Page to the Stage: The Bible in Text and Opera". (Search for "stage" in our video library to call up the videos). Here's West Edge Opera's Trailer.
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Register ➜Total Program Fee: $15.000 spaces open
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Labors of Love: The Life and Legacy of Henrietta Szold
In partnership with the SF Jewish Film Festival
New Lehrhaus is co-presenting this heartfelt film which brings long-overdue recognition to Henrietta Szold, a Jewish American humanitarian whose legacy includes advocating for binational cooperation between Israelis and Palestinians. In Labors of Love, the filmmaker honors Szold's legacy and brings her story to life as a touching historical portrait as well as a roadmap for confronting the continued challenges of our... Read more
Register for this ProgramTotal Program Fee: $20.00
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Multiple Instructors: Friday Torah Study
Virtual Program
Join the Friday Morning Torah Study Group which has been meeting for 50+ years! Every week features a different teacher from among rabbis, scholars, Jewish educators, artists, and the lay leaders with which our community is blessed. Each session begins with the week's parasha (Torah portion) and emphasizes deep conversation and multi-faceted perspectives. We offer this program tuition-free, but ask that you please consider a donation to New Le... Read more
Register ➜Total Program Fee: Free22 spaces open
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Rachel Biale: And Now Love Can Begin
And Now Can Love Begin is an imagined memoir, ventriloquizing the author's parents, based on 100 love letters exchanged in Palestine from 1945-46. Join us as Rachel Biale describes a fascinating glimpse into an epistolary romance set just after WWII in Palestine by two Jewish refugees from Europe.
Tuition: Free (standing room), $7.18 (seat), $17.85 (seat and a drink). Register at the link below.
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Mark Streshinsky & Prof. Ron Hendel—David and Jonathan: Biblical Text and Operatic Interpretation
Director Mark Streshinsky and renowned biblical scholar Ron Hendel explore Charpentier's David & Jonathan. From the power of Baroque opera to the theological dimensions of the biblical text, this event brings two perspectives of this relationship into dialog.
Please arrive at Clio's Books by 6:30pm. (Doors open at 6 pm.) Register below.
Register for this ProgramTotal Program Fee: Free
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Andrew Porwancher—American Maccabee: Theodore Roosevelt and the Jews
Virtual Program
Join Professor Andrew Porwancher as he uncovers the close-knit and often surprising relationship between Theodore Roosevelt and the Jewish community. This lecture traces Roosevelt’s deep connection with the Jewish people at every step of his dazzling ascent. But it also reveals a man of contradictions whose checkered approach to Jewish issues was no less conflicted than the nation he led. Drawing on fresh research from his newest book, American Maccabee, Porwancher explores the compl... Read more
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Bradley Burston—The Iran War: A Briefing from Israel
Virtual Program
Each day reveals new developments and risks, and unanswered questions about the future. Veteran Haaretz journalist Bradley Burston will provide a briefing about the current situation and discuss possible scenarios for its unfolding.
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Rabbi David Cooper: The "Hero's Journey" of the Two Rabbis
Join us as Rabbi David Cooper discusses Burt Jacobson's search for the Baal Shem Tov. For three decades, between his radical political activism and his rabbinic responsibilities, Burt Jacobson, founder of Kehilla Synagogue, investigated and drafted notes on the teachings and life journey of the 18th-century founder of Hasidism, the Baal Shem Tov. Those notes became the 600-page Living in the Presence, published posthumously last year. Jacobson's own journey is a key eleme... Read more
