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 [...]
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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 [...]
Don’t miss this EXCLUSIVE Bay Area appearance by one of the greatest Jewish thinkers of our time:
Rabbi Irving (Yitz) Greenberg –
A New Age for Humanity & Judaism: Coming to Grips with Power, Freedom & Choice
Thursday, March 18 @ 7:30 p.m.
Generally regarded to be one of the greatest modern Jewish thinkers alive today, Irving (Yitz) Greenberg [...]
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March 7, 11 a.m.-4:30 p.m.
JCCSF at 3200 California Street, San Francisco
Lehrhaus Judaica is proud to co-sponsor Bureau of Jewish Education’s 5th Annual Young Adult Feast of Jewish Learning “WANDER/LUST.”
To get a taste of the Feast, check out this 50 second video. Join hundreds of inquisitive minds for dozens of interactive workshops on Jewish texts, philosophy, [...]
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With Dr. Aaron David Miller
Tuesday, March 23, 2010
7:00 pm
FREE
Lehrhaus Judaica
2736 Bancroft Way, Berkeley (parking is available in the UC lot across the street from Lehrhaus and a block down on Bancroft)
Dr. Aaron David Miller, U.S. State Department advisor, formulated U.S. policy on the Middle East and the Arab-Israel peace process. His book, The Much Too [...]
This internationally recognized concert pianist and authority on Yiddish music will perform with Sephardic singer Daniella Rabbani. Mlotek’s Yiddish-Klezmer music hit Broadway with Those Were the Days, the first bilingual musical honored with a Drama Desk Award and nominated for two Tony Awards. He conceived the All Star Klezmer Extravaganza at Lincoln Center. It was [...]
In the fall of 2008, Rick Saal joined a small group of photographers on a journey to Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos. With some basic language skills, an eye prepared for the unexpected and a friendly and open approach, Saal captured people in their multi-faceted daily lives.
Exhibit Opening: Sunday, February 7
Time: 6:00 – 8:00 PM
Location: Oshman [...]
The Yuval Ron Ensemble, with Dervish Aziz, from the Mevlavi Sufi Order.
7:00pm: Special reception and talk with Yuval Ron about his life’s work with music as a bridge between Muslims and Jews plus delicious refreshments and schmoozing, hosted by the Madrasa-Midrash Course sponsors.
JCC of the East Bay
1414 Walnut Street, Berkeley
Ticket prices and purchase at www.jewishmusicfestival.org.
To [...]
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Join us for a spectacular panel taking place in three locations in the Bay Area. The panel features three speakers who are surviving representatives of the Sephardi, Russian, and Holocaust–refugee Jewish communities that lived in China in the first half of the 20th century. These events are related to the “Jews of Modern China” photography [...]
Bible by the Bay brings the community together to discuss the Torah in ways that are relevant to life in the 21st century.
Sunday, May 2
12:30 – 5 pm
$15 pre-registration / $20 at the door
Click here to register.
Oshman Family JCC
3921 Fabian Way, Palo Alto
Keynote Speaker:
Professor James Kugel was born in New York. From 1982-2003 he was [...]
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