In partnership with the Contra Costa JCC American Jews tell stories about who they are and where they come from through a range of everyday objects and supposedly secular organizations. In her book Beyond the Synagogue: Jewish Nostalgia as Religious...
In partnership with the Center for Jewish Studies at the Graduate Theological Union Heresy is as old as Orthodoxy: we already find it in the Bible! It then continues as a thread, sometimes subterranean, others front and center, throughout Jewish...
This class will examine Jewish timekeeping as a way to understand Jewish attitudes toward the natural world. In particular, we will trace the history and differences among ancient Jewish calendars of the Bible, Dead Sea Scrolls, and Talmud with particular...
In partnership with Sinai Memorial Chapel and Bay Area synagogues Jewish ways in death and dying: traditional and contemporary concepts and practices, the approach of death, dying and burial, grief and comforting the bereaved. We understand you may not be...
In celebration of Women’s History Month Before there was feminism, there was Zelda Popkin. Before there was a Jewish women's movement, there was Zelda Popkin. Before Leon Uris' Exodus, there was her 1951 novel Quiet Street about Israel’s struggle for...
In partnership with the Center for Jewish Studies at the Graduate Theological Union Heresy is as old as Orthodoxy: we already find it in the Bible! It then continues as a thread, sometimes subterranean, others front and center, throughout Jewish...
In partnership with the Jewish Community Library A little over 100 years ago, the first production of An-sky’s The Dybbuk, a play about the possession of a young woman by a dislocated spirit, opened in Warsaw. In the century that...
in partnership with Congregation Beth El, Berkeley A midrash is “a story about a story in the Torah” (or the Tanakh). One of the oldest forms of Jewish commentary, midrash moves beyond the “literal” of any passage to imaginative and...
In partnership with the Center for Jewish Studies at the Graduate Theological Union Heresy is as old as Orthodoxy: we already find it in the Bible! It then continues as a thread, sometimes subterranean, others front and center, throughout Jewish...
In partnership with Sinai Memorial Chapel and Bay Area synagogues Jewish ways in death and dying: traditional and contemporary concepts and practices, the approach of death, dying and burial, grief and comforting the bereaved. We understand you may not be...
In partnership with Manny's, San Francisco Still feeling the effects of one too many l'chayims? Or hunting for a sober approach to the world's most spirit-full holiday? Never fear, New Lehrhaus is here with the perfect cure this Purim! Join...
Esther's story is exciting, romantic and disturbing. Set in the imaginary lavish court of the Persian king 2,400 years ago, it is an early example of anti-Semitism. Is there actual history here? Why did many Jews oppose its addition to...
