In partnership with Americans for Ben-Gurion University What happened BEFORE the Bible? This course will delve into periods and aspects of pre-biblical archeology, situated in today’s discourse about what is archeology and how is it harnessed to current national and...
Since our beginnings, the ache of exile and longing to come home have run through Jewish life and writings: our poetry is rich with them. We will read Biblical, Golden Age Spain, Modernist and contemporary texts, and write our own...
Rachel & David Biale: Aerograms Across the Ocean: A Love Story in Letters Presented by the Jewish Community Library: You must register through the Jewish Community Library link: https://jewishlearning.works/event/aerograms-across-the-ocean/ No registration option through New Lerhhaus. Aerograms Across the Ocean: A...
The complex relationships between Jews and their Gentile neighbors will focus on four areas: Session 1: Was Ancient Judaism a Nation, an Ethnicity, or a Religion? Session 2: Was There Antisemitism in Pagan Antiquity? Session 3: Displaced in the Diaspora?...
Eleanor Shapiro: Jewish Music Matters Music offers a unique means of engaging emotion and spirituality, social solidarity, and cultural affirmation. It also demonstrates the mutual influences experienced by cultures living in proximity to one another over time. Spread throughout the world over two...
In partnership with KlezCalifornia Learn this rich and colorful language in a relaxed, irreverent and heimishe atmosphere. Emphasis will be placed on interactive conversation among students (almost) entirely in Yiddish in order to develop the ability to form sentences for...
In partnership with KlezCalifornia This is a course for those who are serious about lernen Yidish and have mastered some of the more elementary words and phrases. For those who want to converse with bube in zayde (grandma and grandpa)...
Jody Hirsh: Bible, Midrash, Art: The Richness of Bible Narratives (Virtual on Zoom) So many Bible stories have captured our imaginations and have fascinated humanity throughout all the generations: Adam and Eve, Cain and Abel, Jacob's Ladder, Joseph in Egypt,...
In partnership with and a part of The JFCSC Holocaust Center Day of Learning and with the Jewish Studies Program at UC Davis Historians have paid little attention to the story of how ordinary lives were reshaped by World War...
In partnership with JCCSF and Congregation Sha'ar Zahav An interactive workshop that looks at the challenges and opportunities of the aging process through a Jewish lens. We will explore our own lives, and our preconceptions and feelings about age while...
Jody Hirsh: Bible, Midrash, Art: The Richness of Bible Narratives (Virtual on Zoom) So many Bible stories have captured our imaginations and have fascinated humanity throughout all the generations: Adam and Eve, Cain and Abel, Jacob's Ladder, Joseph in Egypt,...
