A Community Education Seminar Embassy Suites, Walnut Creek March 14, 2010 This innovative program offers facts, insights and tools you can use on both the American and Israel Jewish communities. It is designed for community educators, lay and professional leaders and activists who seek to positively understand and portray the two Jewish communities. This year’s program focuses primarily on issues of interest for the American Jewish community, especially the challenge of sustaining Jewish identity among the young. Covering a wide range of topics in one afternoon, Where We Are, Where We’re Going is a great way to catch up and move forward in your community outreach and education efforts. Refreshments and dinner (no meat products) are included in the program. Tuition: $30 (need-based scholarships available) Note: Enrollment is limited to 30 participants Click here to register. (more…)

Celebrating more than three decades of charting Jewish women’s lives with exuberance, rigor, clairvoyance, subversion and tenderness, Lilith Magazine has created an exhibit highlighting the signature subjects the magazine has made its beat.

In 10 lively and revealing wall panels, the exhibition explores women’s dramatic new roles in Jewish ritual and liturgy, the changing face of the Jewish community and women’s philanthropy, shifts in how we create our families, what’s going on in the new feminist scholarship, and more.

View the exhibit at Berkeley Hillel from March 17 – May 12.

Lehrhaus will celebrate the opening of the exhibit with a free panel discussion about Lilith and the Jewish women’s movement on Thursday, March 18, at 7 p.m. Enjoy wine and hors· d’oeuvres and a stimulating panel discussion, featuring:

• Rabbi Judy Shanks of Temple Isaiah
• Rabbi Jane Litman, Western regional director, Jewish Reconstructionist Federation
• Maya Bernstein, writer and Lilith blogger
• Rachel Biale, Bay Area regional director, Progressive Jewish Alliance