Text Study
Mon 25

- Pacific Time

Jody Hirsh: Bible, Midrash, Art: The Richness of Bible Narratives

Virtual Program

Jody Hirsh: Bible, Midrash, Art: The Richness of Bible Narratives (Virtual on Zoom)

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Mon 02

- Pacific Time

Jody Hirsh: Bible, Midrash, Art: The Richness of Bible Narratives

Virtual Program

Jody Hirsh: Bible, Midrash, Art: The Richness of Bible Narratives (Virtual on Zoom)

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Tue 10

- Pacific Time

Ron Reissberg: People of the Book, but What Book? The Confrontation Between Torah and Talmud

Virtual Program

3 sessions

Apparently uncomfortable with various portions of the Torah, the rabbis provide interpretations that tend to neutralize the troubling aspects of those texts.  In this class, we will engage in close readings of texts from the Torah and corresponding Talmudic passages.

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Sun 26

- Pacific Time

Divinity and Infinity: Exploring the Infinite in Mathematics and Judaism

Virtual Program

Mathematicians, theologians, and even children ponder the inspiring and surprising nature of the infinite. Dr. Lesser will explore—in a lively, interactive way—how math concepts can help illuminate some big ideas in Judaism, including the value of life, the value of commandments, and the coexistence of God's transcendence and immanence. While parts of this realm can get technical, have no fear: our session will maintain a liberal arts, general adult audiences sensibility to keep it accessible to a broad diversity of backgrounds in mathematics and in Judaism.

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Sun 15

- Pacific Time

Eddy Portnoy: Am Yisrael High: Jews and Cannabis (Virtual on Zoom)

Virtual Program

In Partnership with Congregation Beth El, Berkeley

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Tue 06

- Pacific Time

Daniel Boyarin: Talmud for Beginners (Virtual on Zoom)

Virtual Program

In partnership with Sha'ar Zahav

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Thu 03

- Pacific Time

Chana Kronfeld: The Land as Woman—The Afterlife of a Poetic Metaphor in Women’s Modern Hebrew Poetry (Zoom only)

Virtual Program

The Land-as-Woman is one of the most deeply rooted metaphorical systems in Jewish as well as Western and Middle-Eastern cultures, used to support the discourses of colonialism and nationalism throughout history. It has its origins in the Hebrew Bible. In modern Hebrew poetry modernist women poets critique a tradition that views women always as metaphors, never as literal subjects, developing a new erotics of the address to the land that calls into question patriarchal models of conquest and subjugation.

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Mon 07

- Pacific Time

Robert Alter & Ron Hendel: The Bible Now - Qohelet (Ecclesiastes) (Virtual on Zoom)

Virtual Program

In partnership with Temple Isaiah, Temple Sinai and Congregation Beth El

Qohelet (or Kohellet, Ecclesiastes) is one of the strangest and most revolutionary books of the Hebrew Bible. We will explore its poetry and philosophy in the context of biblical and ancient Near Eastern wisdom literature.

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Thu 20

- Pacific Time

Diaspora and Homecoming in Jewish Poetry: A Reading and Writing Class (In Person Only)

In partnership with Congregation Netivot Shalom
A continuation of the Spring 2022 class but NEW participants are very welcome.
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Location

Netivot Shalom

1316 University Ave
Berkeley 94702 + Google Map

Instructor

Sun 11

- Pacific Time

Daniel C. Matt: Becoming Elijah: Prophet of Transformation (In Person Only)

FREE program presented by our partners, the Jewish Community Library

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Location

Jewish Community Library

1835 Ellis Street
San Francisco, CA 94115 + Google Map

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