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Prof. Ariel Evan Mayse: Exploring Hasidism (In person or on Zoom)
In partnership with and at BASE-Bay, Rockridge
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Base Bay Area
CA + Google Map
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Multiple Presenters: Walking in the Valley of the Shadow
In partnership with Sinai Memorial Chapel, the Ben Zakkai Institute, 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.
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JCC of the East Bay
Berkeley, CA 94709 + Google Map
Base Bay Area
CA + Google Map
Kehilla Community Synagogue
Piedmont, CA 94610 + Google Map
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Ken Blady and Amrik Singh Pannu—Sikhs & Jews: Twins Separated at Birth? A Multimedia Presentation (Zoom only)
The Sikhs have much common with Haredi Jews. Like the Jews, the Sikhs lost their kingdom, and have long struggled to re-establish an independent homeland, for which their people have been massacred in the hundreds of thousands. Sikhs have created vibrant diaspora communities throughout the world. There are also marked differences, among others, regarding circumcision and fasting. We will explore both similarities and differences.
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Daniel Matt: Exploring the Zohar (Virtual on Zoom)
A partnership program of New Lehrhaus
In this course we read and study the Zohar, the masterpiece of Kabbalah. Currently, we are exploring the Zohar on the Book of Genesis. Students can enroll in the current series, held live on Zoom.
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Multiple Presenters: Sacred Sounds: Kabbalat Shabbat Exploration in Learning & Song (In person only)
Four-session series in partnership with Urban Adamah
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Profs. Robert Alter & Daniel Matt—Sacred Sounds: Kabbalat Shabbat Exploration in Learning & Song (Zoom only)
In partnership with Urban Adamah
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Multiple Presenters: Community Learning in Memory of Rachel Brodie (In Person Only)
In partnership with Urban Adamah (along with Jewish Studio Project and JewishLearningWorks)
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Daniel Matt: Exploring the Zohar in English or the Original Aramaic (Virtual on Zoom)
A partnership program of New Lehrhaus
Read and study the Zohar, the masterpiece of Kabbalah. You may enroll in either of two sections—one reading the Zohar in English and the other working with the original Aramaic. Both are live on Zoom.
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Rabbi Peretz Wolf-Prusan: What REALLY Happened on Tish’ah Be-Av (Zoom only)
Eicha, “how,” is the first Hebrew word of the Book of Lamentations, and its Hebrew title. Lamentations is read on Tish’a B’Av, but what really happened/happens on the 9th of Av, Tish’a Be-Av?
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Prof. Rachel Feldman—The Third Temple Movement: Jewish Theocracy in Israel Today (Zoom only)
Over the past decade, Professor Feldman has conducted ethnographic research with theocratic activists in Jerusalem—Jewish men and women who view the rebuilding of a temple on the Temple Mount/Haram al-Sharif, the renewal of animal sacrifices (discontinued for thousands of years in Judaism), and the restoration of a Jewish monarchy, as the prophesied conclusion to Zionism. Explore a revival movement gaining unprecedented support in Israel from both religious and secular politicians in the Knes... Read more
