Lehrhaus Judaica will present Zakheim: The Art of Prophetic Justice at the Jazz Heritage Center in San Francisco this fall. A photographic history of Bernard Zakheim’s life and work will be showcased in the Koret Heritage Lobby from October 17-December 30, and approximately 25 original Zakheim paintings will be displayed in the Lush Life Gallery from October 17-November 30.
A public opening event is scheduled for Wednesday, October 20, at 7 p.m. at the Jazz Heritage Center (1320/1330 Fillmore Street). Following a reception, award-winning historian Fred Rosenbaum will speak about Zakheim at 8 p.m. Admission to the exhibition is free every day, including the public opening event.
The exhibition is made possible by a lead grant from the Koret Foundation, the Laszlo N. Tauber Family Foundation, and the Fleishhacker Foundation. The Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life, The Bancroft Library, UC Berkeley, collaborated on the exhibition.
Back by popular demand, the Jews of the Fillmore exhibition will be on display at the BJE Jewish Community Library from September 2010-January 2011. The free exhibition features a photographic depiction of San Francisco’s greatest Jewish neighborhood from 1907-1965.
A center of Orthodox religious life, but also Zionism, socialism, and the Yiddish theater, the Fillmore was the hub of Yiddish-speaking Jewish culture in Northern California for almost half a century. But, it was also the entertainment mecca for the whole city, and Jews were highly visible as the operators of restaurants, vaudeville houses, movie theaters, and Jazz clubs. The Fillmore produced one of the greatest violinists of the century, Yhudi Munhihn, along with many Jewish communal leaders.
Fred Rosenbaum, co-curator of the exhibition and author of Cosmopolitans: A Social and Cultural History of the Jews of the San Francisco Bay Area (UC Press, 2009) will deliver a presentation on the Jews of the Fillmore:
Thursday, November 18, at 7 p.m.
BJE Jewish Community Library
1835 Ellis Street, San Francisco
415-567-3327
Richard Freund, the director of the Maurice Greenberg Center for Judaic Studies at the University of Hartford, is slated to be the keynote speaker for Bible by the Bay in Contra Costa on Sunday, November 14. The event runs from 1:30-6 p.m. at Temple Isaiah in Lafayette (3800 Mt. Diablo Boulevard).
Freund has directed six archaeological projects in Israel and three in Europe on behalf of the university. He ha also appeared in 15 television documentaries on Biblical archaeology, including for the History Channel and CNN. Additionally, he is the author or co-author of eight books, including most recently, Digging through the Bible: Ancient Archaeology and the Modern Bible.
Freund will deliver the opening and closing addresses for the conference. The opening address is titled: Digging through the Bible: Modern Archaeology and the Ancient Bible – The Back Story. Freund will conclude with a talk titled: Digging Deeper: Where is the “Real” Mount Sinai?
RitLab_FLYER_FINAL Workshop Series: RitLab Thursday Nights July 8 – August 26; 6-8 p.m. Free with museum admission. Admission is $5 after 5 p.m. Reserve your space at www.thecjm.org Contemporary Jewish Museum 736 Mission Street San Francisco CA 94103
Lehrhaus periodically hosts seminars throughout the school year, such as MEICORs American Jews and Israel seminar and Learning and Leadership in the Community. We will post information regarding our 2010-11 seminars as it becomes available.
Internationally acclaimed singing sensation Matisyahu will be appearing in concert at the Bankhead Theatre in Livermore on Tuesday, September 21 at 7:30. Matisyahu burst on the music scene in 2004 with an inimitable style that blends traditional Jewish themes with Reggae, rock, and hip-hop beat-boxing sounds. He is best known for his Top 40 hit [...]
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Thank you to everyone who attended Bible by the Bay at the Oshman Family JCC in Palo Alto on May 5. There was a big turnout to hear keynote speaker James Kugel, the director of the Institute for the History of the Jewish Bible at Bar Ilan University in Israel, and a collection of top [...]
