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 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 the Jewish Community Library, San Francisco Although the apple is one of the most widely-recognized biblical symbols, the Book of Genesis does not identify the species of the Forbidden Fruit, nor do the earliest translations of the...
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 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 Urban Adamah (along with Jewish Studio Project and JewishLearningWorks) Join us as we honor the remarkable life and enduring impact of Rachel Brodie, z"l, in the season of her second yartzeit. Called a master Jewish educator, a...
In partnership with Congregation Netivot Shalom, Berkeley and KlezCalifornia In 1947, Baghdad's Jewish community of 90,000 comprised about 25% of the city's population, and Iraq's 130,000 Jews comprised almost 3% of the total population (higher than the Jewish population in...
In partnership with the the JFCS Holocaust Center's San Francisco-wide Yom HaShoah Commemoration and Day of Learning, and the Contra Costa community-wide commemoration. While members of the Jewish Yishuv were not in a position to impact the course of the...
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...
Part of our “What REALLY Happened on…” series Lag Ba’Omer (the 33rd day of the counting of the omer from Passover to Shavu'ot) first appeared in the Middle Ages as a fairly obscure holiday connected to Rabbi Akiva and Rabbi...
Part 6 of October 7th & the Israel-Gaza War: Behind and Beyond the News A week after celebrating Israel's Independence Day, we look at the current situation "through a glass darkly." Award-winning journalist Bradley Burston's new book "The End of...
Sex and furniture, really? Really! Beds (of course), tables, lamps, and ornaments: rabbinic texts illuminate attitudes towards sexuality in key texts where furniture appears—either as literal objects or as metaphors. Wednesday, May 22 @ 7–8:30pm, on Zoom
