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Kiev: Jewish Metropolis (Virtual on Zoom)
Virtual Program
While we follow the Russian invasion of Ukraine with heartbreak and grave anxiety and hold ALL Ukrainians in our hearts and thoughts, we step back in history with Prof. Natan Meir, to the days when Kyiv - Kiev was a...
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- Date:
- May 5, 2022
- Time:
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7:00 pm - 8:30 pm
- Cost:
- Free
- Program Categories:
- Contemporary Jewish Life, History & Thought
Instructors
Free
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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...
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- Date:
- May 10, 2022
- Time:
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4:00 pm - 5:30 pm
- Cost:
- Free
- Program Categories:
- Bible, History & Thought, Religious Life & Spirituality, Text Study
Instructors
Free
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Yosef Rosen: The Tree of Life: Making Kabbalistic Diagrams (Virtual on Zoom)
Virtual Program
Learn about the aesthetic-theology of kabbalistic diagrams—full of trees, circles, spirals, lines, and letters—and use these as models to map your own relation to that which is essential but intangible (what might be called spirit, soul, or the divine). Our...
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- Date:
- May 12, 2022
- Time:
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7:00 pm - 8:30 pm
- Cost:
- Free
- Program Categories:
- History & Thought, Jewish Practice, Religious Life & Spirituality, The Arts
Instructors
Free
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Eddy Portnoy: Am Yisrael High: Jews and Cannabis (Virtual on Zoom)
Virtual Program
In Partnership with Congregation Beth El, Berkeley Long before people like Abbie Hoffman and Allen Ginsberg began protesting in favor of the legalization of marijuana, this popular plant had been a part of Jewish life for millenia. From the Bible...
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- Date:
- May 15, 2022
- Time:
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4:00 pm - 5:30 pm
- Cost:
- Free
- Program Categories:
- Contemporary Jewish Life, History & Thought, Jewish Practice, Religious Life & Spirituality, Text Study
Instructors
Free
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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...
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- Date:
- May 18, 2022
- Time:
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7:00 pm - 8:30 pm
- Program Categories:
- Contemporary Jewish Life, Israel, Literature, Text Study
Instructors
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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...
Details
- Date:
- May 25, 2022
- Time:
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7:00 pm - 8:30 pm
- Cost:
- Free
- Program Categories:
- Contemporary Jewish Life, Israel, Literature, Text Study
Instructors
Free
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Bonnie Weiss: Word Wizards: Broadway’s Legendary Jewish Lyricists (Virtual on Zoom)
Virtual Program
Explore the cultural, social, and economic forces that led to a remarkable phenomenon: although the Jewish population in America has rarely exceeded 2%, over 80% of Broadway and Tin Pan Alley songwriters have been Jewish. How are Jewish religion and...
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- Date:
- June 1, 2022
- Time:
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4:00 pm - 6:00 pm
- Cost:
- Free
- Program Category:
- The Arts
Instructors
Free
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Abortion through Multiple Lenses (Virtual on Zoom)
Virtual Program
The abortion debate has just reached fever pitch following the leak of the Supreme Court majority opinion suggesting the demise of Roe vs. Wade. If it is overturned, what other personal freedoms are already/will be in danger: transgender health services,...
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- Date:
- June 1, 2022
- Time:
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7:00 pm - 8:30 pm
- Cost:
- Free
- Program Categories:
- Contemporary Jewish Life, History & Thought, Jewish Practice, Religious Life & Spirituality
Free
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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...
Details
- Date:
- June 8, 2022
- Time:
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7:00 pm - 8:30 pm
- Cost:
- Free
- Program Categories:
- Contemporary Jewish Life, Israel, Literature, Text Study
Instructors
Free
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We Were Here: HIV-AIDS, the Bay Area and the Jewish Community (Virtual on Zoom)
Virtual Program
Program Video: https://youtu.be/FEzwnh37xBY In partnership with The East Bay International Jewish Film Festival, Congregation Sha’ar Zahav, and A Wider Bridge On the 35th anniversary of the launching of the AIDS Quilt and Names Project, the quilt’s largest display ever will...
Details
- Date:
- June 9, 2022
- Time:
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7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
- Cost:
- Free
- Program Categories:
- Contemporary Jewish Life, History & Thought
Instructors
Free