Part of the "Soil to Soul: Agriculture and Jewish Culture" series Sunday, July 2 @ 3–4:30pm, in-person at Urban Adamah Wheat pancakes, matzah, challah, bagels, rye and pumpernickel bread and pita are all breads associated with Jewish life and culture....
A partnership program of Urban Adamah and New Lehrhaus, and with Jewish Food Society Click the session titles below to reach the individual registration pages. SESSION 1: Jhos Singer—Judaism in a Bottle: The Manischewitz Story (Zoom only) Sunday, April 9 @ 3–4:30pm American wine-making...
First debunking a string of myths about Hamilton's origins, Prof. Andrew Porwancher arrives at a startling conclusion: Hamilton was, in all likelihood, born and raised Jewish. While he did not identify as a Jew in his American adulthood, Hamilton emerged...
A partnership program with YIVO, New York Arguably the most popular book in the history of Yiddish literature, the Tsenerene (alternative Romanization: Ze’enah U-Re’enah) has been reprinted, both in Yiddish and in translation, 273 times since its appearance in the early seventeenth century. Arranged...
In partnership with the SF Jewish Film Festival This collection of five short documentaries shows different aspects of life in the Mellah, the Jewish quarter of Marrakech, told mostly by Moroccan Muslims and the few Jews still living there. These...
On Tu Be'Av (the fifteenth of Av), "the daughters of Jerusalem would go out and dance in the vineyards. And what would they say? 'Young man, lift up your eyes and see—whom would you choose.'" (Talmud, Ta'anit). Learn about the holiday...
Part of Chew-ish & Jew-ish: Lunch & Learn at Manny’s Café. In partnership with Congregation Sha'ar Zahav in San Francisco. On Tu Be'Av (the fifteenth of Av), "the daughters of Jerusalem would go out and dance in the vineyards. And...
In partnership with SF Jewish Film Festival Fifty years ago, a now forgotten New York Republican assemblyman cast a single tiebreaking vote that legalized abortion in New York and laid the groundwork for Roe v. Wade. Playing as part of...
Our experts explain the Judicial Reform crisis. Prof. Fania Oz-Salzberger (Haifa University Emerita, History & Law) Bradley Burston (Ha'Aretz Columnist: "A Special Place in Hell") Kenneth Bob (President of Ameinu & Project Rozana USA, Board member J. Street) Prof. Eli...
This introduction to the Bay Area Community Talmud Circles is your opportunity to dip your toes into the Sea of Talmud. This session will explain, reveal and demystify this formative work of the Jewish literary tradition. This session is an...
Most likely you remember the 1989 classic Driving Miss Daisy starring Morgan Freeman, Jessica Tandy and Dan Aykroyd. The film takes place in 1950s Atlanta. Award-winning historian Fred Rosenbaum will explore Black-Jewish relations in America's South at our next Around...
This introduction to the Bay Area Community Talmud Circles is your opportunity to dip your toes into the Sea of Talmud. This session will explain, reveal and demystify this formative work of the Jewish literary tradition. This session is an...
