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...
The Judicial Reform proposed by Netanyhu’s government encompasses a complex web of proposed legislation with the hallmark one, revoking of the "unreasonableness clause" under review by Israel's Supreme Court (September 12). One of Israel's leading civil rights attorneys will provide...
The Bay Area Talmud Circles bring teachers and students to learn together over a page of Talmud. Never studied Talmud? You’re in for a treat! Bring your curiosity and questions to this hour of dialog about the Talmud and the...
As we welcome the New Year, how are we as a community welcoming the strangers among us? Where does “Welcoming the Stranger” come from as a Jewish value--and how have we as a people interpreted it over time? How are...
During the late 19th century revolutionary ideas began to proliferate among the urban Yiddish-speaking working classes in Eastern Europe. In the United States, England and Argentina Jewish immigrants established militant labor unions and radical movements opposed to the authoritarian and...
In partnership with Manny’s and JCCSF Discover the fascinating history and unique customs of this ancient Jewish community in Central Asia—its history and customs, its fate during the years of war in Afghanistan, and the story of Manny’s Afghani Jewish family....
In Partnership with the Oshman Family JCC in Palo Alto, Congregation Beth Am, the Jewish Community Library, A Wider Bridge, and The East Bay International Film Festival A screening of selections from renowned Israeli Filmmaker Yair Qedar's Gay Days. Qedar...
In partnership with the American Jewish Historical Society and YIVO Drawing on the experiences of and photographs by a generation of young Jewish photographers who belonged to the New York Photo League, Deborah Dash Moore offers a new perspective on...
