Brush up on your Hebrew skills or improve them this summer with Lehrhaus. Orna Morad offers multiple modern Hebrew and prayerbook Hebrew options on the Peninsula, and Jehon Grist has a unique prayerbook Hebrew Ulpan in addition to an intermediate and advanced prayerbook class. Check out Morad’s offerings here, and Grist’s here.

If you missed the Free Ranging Communities: Jewish Life in Marin and Hollywood conference in March or just want to relive it, check out the videos. The conference featured a keynote conversation with actress Mayim Bialik, seven Voices From Our Community, and a conversation with founders of the Marin Jewish community.

Lehrhuas is offering an expanded summer program this year. The summer session features modern and biblical Hebrew, images of Jews in English literature, and programs related to the Contemporary Jewish Museum’s exhibition Beat Memories: The Photographs of Allen Ginsberg.

Check out the courses here or see a PDF of the summer catalog here.
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Peretz Wolf-Prusan
(Photo by: Michael Krasnobrod)

Lehrhaus’ Rabbi Peretz Wolf-Prusan is participating in three Shavuot events around the Bay Area in May.

On Tuesday, May 14, Rabbi Peretz is a teacher at Tikkun Leil Shavuot at the JCC East Bay in Berkeley. He is presenting An Unexpected Re-Creation: Chaos to Order and Back Again from 6:50-7:45 pm. (more…)