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...
What confers sacredness onto space? Distinguished sanctuary designers will discuss how they approach the shaping of spaces meant to focus the mind and transport the soul. Stanley Saitowitz, Susie Coliver and Steve Rajninger, and Craig Hartman will describe the thinking...
This three-semester sequence gives you the essential knowledge and skills to read, understand and appreciate Prayerbook texts and the Hebrew Bible. It starts at the beginning, teaching the alphabet and sight-reading skills, then moves on to build both vocabulary and...
This course will explore Buber's and Heschel's key theological teachings. Martin Buber is best-known for his book I and Thou, which focuses on how people relate to the world and his Tales of the Hasidim. For Buber, our relationship with...
A partnership program of New Lehrhaus In this course we read and study the Zohar, the masterpiece of Kabbalah. Currently, we are exploring the Zohar on the Book of Genesis. Students can enroll in the current series, held live on...
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...
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...
Kenneth Bob, President of Ameinu—who has been in Israel since before October 7th—will provide a "report from the ground" covering the war, the hostage situation, the state of affairs in Gaza, and life on the home front. Following that, Rabbi...
A partnership program of New Lehrhaus In this course we read and study the Zohar, the masterpiece of Kabbalah. Currently, we are exploring the Zohar on the Book of Genesis. Students can enroll in the current series, held live on...
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 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...
This three-semester sequence gives you the essential knowledge and skills to read, understand and appreciate Prayerbook texts and the Hebrew Bible. It starts at the beginning, teaching the alphabet and sight-reading skills, then moves on to build both vocabulary and...
Many scholars regard King Josiah of Judah (ca. 640-609 BCE) as the founder of a strict one-G-d religion for his kingdom which previously worshipped YHWH but also allowed for other deities. His revolution was both consequential and violent, and paved...
In partnership with Urban Adamah Morocco, Algeria, and Tunisia are located in the westernmost part of the Arabic-speaking world, so Jews (and non-Jews) from the region are known as Maghrebi, or “Western”. Interesting, when one considers that Moroccan Jews are...
A partnership program of New Lehrhaus In this course we read and study the Zohar, the masterpiece of Kabbalah. Currently, we are exploring the Zohar on the Book of Genesis. Students can enroll in the current series, held live on...
In partnership with Congregation Kol Emeth and Congregation Beth Am Explicitly and implicitly, Torah texts point to the idea that we are stewards of a planet to which we never gain title. Surprisingly visionary obligations follow to treat this earth...
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...
Eli Gumener’s 1921 Yiddish memoir, A Ukrainian Chapter: Two Years in Podolia (A Kapitl Ukraine. Tsvey Yor in Podolye), is set in a region in southwest Ukraine. The memoir depicts the fate of Jews caught in the middle of the...
What confers sacredness onto space? Distinguished sanctuary designers discuss how they approach the shaping of spaces meant to focus the mind and transport the soul. Here, Susie Coliver and Steve Rajninger will describe the thinking behind Kol Shofar, via an...
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...
What confers sacredness onto space? Distinguished sanctuary designers discuss how they approach the shaping of spaces meant to focus the mind and transport the soul. Here, Susie Coliver and Steve Rajninger will describe the thinking behind Kol Shofar, via an...
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...
This three-semester sequence gives you the essential knowledge and skills to read, understand and appreciate Prayerbook texts and the Hebrew Bible. It starts at the beginning, teaching the alphabet and sight-reading skills, then moves on to build both vocabulary and...
Many scholars regard King Josiah of Judah (ca. 640-609 BCE) as the founder of a strict one-G-d religion for his kingdom which previously worshipped YHWH but also allowed for other deities. His revolution was both consequential and violent, and paved...
In partnership with Urban Adamah Since Morocco, Algeria and Tunisia are located on the westernmost part of the Arabic-speaking world, Jews (and non-Jews) from the region are known as Maghrebi, “western.” Interesting, when one considers that Moroccan Jews are generally...
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 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...
In partnership with BASE Bay in Rockridge Great, then take a taste of Mussar, the Jewish ethics project where you learn together then set your own curriculum. Think of the qualities you want to increase: patience, gratitude, generosity? And what about...
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...
