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Rabbi Mychal Copeland: On Repentance and Repair
Make amends in an unapologetic world. Learn how to engage in repair work—intentional and interpersonal, whether or not you go to shul (synagogue). Find your own path into a meaningful engagement with the High Holidays, through shared study and reflection.
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Jehon Grist: Read Hebrew? Yes, You Can!
Virtual Program
Yes, you can break the Hebrew sight-reading barrier! This two-hour session (with a break in the middle) teaches you how to write and name the letters of the Hebrew alphabet. It also introduces the key vowel symbols and sounds so you can build and read Hebrew words. And since appreciating Hebrew's importance includes learning how and where it began, we'll learn a bit about its origins. This class is the perfect first step in preparation to take Prayerbook/Biblical Hebrew 1 beginning Oct... Read more
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Robby Adler Peckerar and Anthony Russell: KlezCalYidFest
KlezCalifornia is rebooting their klezmer and Yiddish culture festival! KlezCalYidFest kicks off Friday Sept 12 with a weekend of concerts, workshops and dancing with local and international artists from the klezmer and contemporary Yiddish culture scene. New Lehrhaus is sponsoring two lectures:
Robby Adler Peckerar — The Podolian Nights: Tales of Nachman of Bratslav
Saturday, Sept. 13 @ 3–4:30pm
Register for this ProgramTotal Program Fee: $120.00
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Prof. Judith Hauptman: Domestics or Divas? Women in the Talmud (A Three–Part Course)
Virtual Program
In partnership with Congregation Netivot Shalom, Berkeley
Some think the rabbis of the Talmud saw women as their servants. Others think they put women on a pedestal. Where does the truth lie? To answer this question, we will read Talmudic texts in Hebrew/Aramaic, with English translation, and assess how the rabbis viewed women's socio-legal status. We will also read non-legal passages that show how the rabbis thought about women. No Talmudic background ne... Read more
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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.
For methods of payment,... Read more
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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: Free18 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.
