The Bay Area Community Talmud Circle is a growing, dynamic and welcoming community of adult participants engaged in modern Talmud study and active conversation. While the majority of participants are continuing students, anyone may join! No prior experience with Talmud Study...
We are pleased to partner with the SF Jewish Film institute's WinterFest in presenting: Barak Heymann—one of Israel’s most prolific and well-respected filmmakers—suffered personal losses in the October 7 Hamas attacks. Several of his close friends had parents and relatives...
The second semester of a three-semester sequence, this course is designed for those who have completed New Lehrhaus Hebrew 1 and have a working Hebrew vocabulary of 75-100 words and are familiar with the grammar of nouns, adjectives, possessive endings...
For millennia, we humans have wanted to know how it all began, and why. Within the tradition of the Western world, we need to go back to its earliest civilizations to find the foundations of our own notions of creation....
In partnership with Congregation Etz Chayim, Palo Alto After over two thousand years of Jewish life in the Iberian Peninsula, the Jews were expelled from Spain in 1492. Most of them, known as the Sephardim (“Sepharad” is Spain in Hebrew),...
In partnership with the Center for Jewish Studies at the Graduate Theological Union Heresy is as old as Orthodoxy: we already find it in the Bible! It then continues as a thread, sometimes subterranean, others front and center, throughout Jewish...
Join us Fridays at noon for look at the Torah Portion of the week through the portal of the Zohar. The gate pictured here is the entrance to the garden of Moses de Leon, the compiler of the Zohar. He...
The second semester of a three-semester sequence, this course is designed for those who have completed New Lehrhaus Hebrew 1 and have a working Hebrew vocabulary of 75-100 words and are familiar with the grammar of nouns, adjectives, possessive endings...
For millennia, we humans have wanted to know how it all began, and why. Within the tradition of the Western world, we need to go back to its earliest civilizations to find the foundations of our own notions of creation....
In partnership with the Contra Costa JCC American Jews tell stories about who they are and where they come from through a range of everyday objects and supposedly secular organizations. In her book Beyond the Synagogue: Jewish Nostalgia as Religious...
In partnership with the Center for Jewish Studies at the Graduate Theological Union Heresy is as old as Orthodoxy: we already find it in the Bible! It then continues as a thread, sometimes subterranean, others front and center, throughout Jewish...
The Bay Area Community Talmud Circle is a growing, dynamic and welcoming community of adult participants engaged in modern Talmud study and active conversation. While the majority of participants are continuing students, anyone may join! No prior experience with Talmud Study...
