Join us on a musical journey from "I Have a Little Dreidel" and "Rock of Ages" to original songs, hilarious Tom Lehrer satiric numbers, and Hanukkah-themed new lyrics set to music by Leonard Bernstein and other acclaimed composers. Listen to songs you may have never heard about the Maccabees, the history of Hanukkah, and the "miracle" of making edible latkes in the song "Latkes, Shmatkes.”

In partnership with KlezCalifornia and the Jewish Community Library

In the 1920s and ’30s, only New York rivaled Warsaw as a capital of Jewish cosmopolitanism. This multimedia presentation will demonstrate the vitality of a community known more for how they died than how they lived.

Eda Pell, our stalwart supporter and most generous donor, sponsors an annual lecture at UC Berkeley: we encourage you to attend.

In partnership with Taube Philanthropies, The Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life and UC Berkeley Center for Jewish Studies

It’s not what you think, it’s not what the Hagaddah tells us, it’s not what you remember from Sunday School or "The Ten Commandments." Profs. Ron Hendel and Robert Alter will provide an analysis of the Biblical text, both historical and literary, which will turn your Passover Seder upside down.

This program will consider a number of texts composed by Jews dwelling under imperial rule in antiquity (the Persian, Greek, and Roman empires) in order to understand how the substantial humor in those texts reflects the experience and attitudes of a subordinate people. The texts to be discussed are the biblical books of Esther and Jonah, the stories of Judith and Susanna, and the Testament of Abraham. (PDF files of the latter three will be sent to participants).

4 sessions: Mondays May 1, 8, 15, 22 @7–8:30pm

We invite you to join these community Yom Ha-Shoah Programs held by partner organizations: JFCS Holocaust Center and "Under One Tent," a program of the Contra Costa JCC.

We're pleased to invite you to a Partnership Program with the Taube Center for Jewish Life and Culture in Warsaw.

A partnership program of Urban Adamah and New Lehrhaus, and with Jewish Food Society

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