History & Thought
Tue 06

- Pacific Time

Ross Benjamin (translator) & Jonathan Brent (YIVO Director)
Franz Kafka: The Diaries (A New Translation)

We are pleased to announce a partnership with YIVO in New York, the premier Institute for Jewish Research in Yiddish Language and Eastern European Jewish Culture.

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Thu 01

- Pacific Time

Profs. Sam Shonkoff, Naomi Seidman, David Biale
“Old Boys” at the New Lehrhaus: The Rosenzweig-Buber-Scholem Debate Transported to 2023 (In Person Only)

In partnership with the Center for Jewish Studies at the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley, and YIVO in New York

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Location

Graduate Theological Union Library

2400 Ridge Road
Berkeley, CA + Google Map
Sun 02

- Pacific Time

Soil to Soul: Agriculture and Jewish Culture series

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

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Tue 28

- Pacific Time

Fred Rosenbaum—A Turn in Israel: Politics and Society in Today's Jewish State (Zoom Only)

Explore why Israeli voters turned towards Benjamin Netanyahu and his coalition partners at the November election, leading to his becoming the longest-serving prime minister of Israel and parliamentary losses for left-wing and Arab parties. Rosenbaum will delve into the major demographic changes that have taken place in Israel over the past decades as well as the judicial reform legislation that has led to protests throughout the country.

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Sun 09

- Pacific Time

Jhos Singer—Judaism in a Bottle: The Manischewitz Story (Zoom only)

Virtual Program

Part of the "Soil to Soul: Agriculture and Jewish Culture" series

In partnership with JCCSF

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Sun 23

- Pacific Time

Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett: People of the Cookbook (Zoom Only)

Virtual Program

Part of the "Soil to Soul: Agriculture and Jewish Culture" series

In conversation with Yael Raviv of Jewish Food Society

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Tue 04

- Pacific Time Series

Dr. Zachary Mazur—80th Anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising: Special Bay Area Lectures (In Person Only)

Join our partners, Taube Philanthropies and POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews in Warsaw in marking the 80th anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising with three special Bay Area Lectures (in-person only).

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Thu 18

- Pacific Time

Dr. Jehon Grist & Rabbi Peretz Wolf-Prusan: What REALLY Happened at Sinai? (Zoom only)

Virtual Program

Shavuot celebrates Matan Torah - the giving of the Torah at Sinai. But what really happened there? Jewish tradition holds that every Jew throughout all time was present at Sinai. What do we "remember" from it? And what does archeology tell us about it: was there a mass gathering? a golden calf? tablets inscribed with ten commandments? Or did something even more earthshaking happen in the Sinai desert?

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Thu 01

- Pacific Time

Profs. Sam Shonkoff, Naomi Seidman, David Biale
“Old Boys” at the New Lehrhaus: The Rosenzweig-Buber-Scholem Debate Transported to 2023 (Zoom Only)

Virtual Program

In partnership with the Center for Jewish Studies at the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley, and YIVO in New York

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Wed 24

- Pacific Time

Chew-ish & Jew-ish—Lunch & Learn @ Manny’s Cafe
Rabbi Jessica Graf: What REALLY Happened at Sinai? (In Person Only)

The holiday of Shavuot, which begins Thursday evening (May 25), celebrates the giving of the Torah at Sinai. Jewish tradition holds that every Jew throughout all time was present at Sinai. Do you “remember” it? What does archeology tell us? Was there a mass gathering at Mt. Sinai? A golden calf? Tablets inscribed with ten commandments? Join us for some answers… and more questions.

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Location

Manny's

3092 16th Street
San Francisco, CA 94103 + Google Map

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