Contemporary Jewish Life
Wed 19

- Pacific Time

Bruce Phillips: How Interfaith Marriage is Changing the American Jewish Community – But Not Necessarily in the Ways We Think/Fear (Virtual on Zoom)

Virtual Program

For over half a century Jewish intermarriage was understood as the next step before assimilation. Using the new Pew 2020 survey, Bruce Phillips will argue that the current discourses about Jewish intermarriage are outdated. For example, asking why Jewish intermarry is backwards. When the dynamics of intermarriage for other groups are considered along with the place of Jews in American society, that Jews marry other Jews is the exceptional finding. Instead of assimilating, the children of intermarriage are maintaining a Jewish identification, and the American Jewish population is changing dramatically as a result.

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Thu 03

- Pacific Time

Ilan Vitemberg: Between Shtisel and Fauda: Images of Israeli Men in Israeli TV Series (Virtual on Zoom)

Virtual Program

We will examine how Israeli men are portrayed in such popular Israeli TV series as Fauda, Shtisel, and When Heroes Fly, and explore how these portrayals could serve as a lens through which we explore Israeli society and the Zionist endeavor more broadly. 

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Sun 20

- Pacific Time

Kim Carter Martinez: Jews of Color: Taking Charge of Your Jewish Identity (Virtual on Zoom)

Virtual Program

It is not unusual for a Jew of color to be asked, “How did you get to be Jewish?” Quite simply the question stems from their appearance - “You don’t look Jewish.”

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Sun 10

- Pacific Time Series

Ariel Mayse: Where Heaven and Earth Kiss: Exploring New Perspectives in Jewish Environmental Ethics

In partnership with Urban Adamah

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Tue 29

- Pacific Time

Dawn Kepler: Honoring Your Jewish Child’s Non-Jewish Heritage (Virtual on Zoom)

Virtual Program

Every child needs to understand where they come from. If you are raising your child as a Jew but one parent is not Jewish it is essential that you teach your child about that side of their family. This workshop will discuss how to teach your child about BOTH sides of the family and how to integrate both parents into your child’s identity.

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Wed 02

- Pacific Time

David Waksberg: Drop-In Book Club: Dara Horn’s "People Love Dead Jews" (Virtual on Zoom)

Drop-In Book Club: People Love Dead Jews by Dara Horn (VIRTUAL)

In partnership with the Jewish Community Library

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Tue 08

- Pacific Time

Ron Reissberg: Care to Make It Interesting? Seinfeld, Jewish Culture, and the Talmud (Virtual on Zoom)

Virtual Program

In partnership wit Cong. Chevra Thilim, San Francisco

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Wed 13

- Pacific Time

Rachel & David Biale: Aerograms Across the Ocean: A Love Story in Letters (Virtual on Zoom)

Rachel & David Biale: Aerograms Across the Ocean: A Love Story in Letters

Presented by the Jewish Community Library: You must register through the Jewish Community Library link: https://jewishlearning.works/event/aerograms-across-the-ocean/  No registration option through New Lerhhaus.

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Wed 18

- Pacific Time

Chana Kronfeld: The Land as Woman: The Afterlife of a Poetic Metaphor in Women’s Modern Hebrew Poetry (Zoom only)

Virtual Program

The Land-as-Woman is one of the most deeply rooted metaphorical systems in Jewish as well as Western and Middle-Eastern cultures, used to support the discourses of colonialism and nationalism throughout history. It has its origins in the Hebrew Bible. In modern Hebrew poetry modernist women poets critique a tradition that views women always as metaphors, never as literal subjects, developing a new erotics of the address to the land that calls into question patriarchal models of conquest and subjugation.

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Wed 25

- Pacific Time

Chana Kronfeld: The Land as Woman: The Afterlife of a Poetic Metaphor in Women’s Modern Hebrew Poetry (Zoom only)

Virtual Program

The Land-as-Woman is one of the most deeply rooted metaphorical systems in Jewish as well as Western and Middle-Eastern cultures, used to support the discourses of colonialism and nationalism throughout history. It has its origins in the Hebrew Bible. In modern Hebrew poetry modernist women poets critique a tradition that views women always as metaphors, never as literal subjects, developing a new erotics of the address to the land that calls into question patriarchal models of conquest and subjugation.

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