Lehrhaus Judaica is honored to be part of the inaugural lecture by Professor Eran Kaplan — the Rhoda Goldman Chair of Israel Studies at San Francisco State University.

Kaplan will speak about Israel’s Summer of Discontent: Social Protests, Nostalgia, and the Future(s) of Zionism on Tuesday, Feb. 21, from 7-9 p.m. at the JCCSF in Fisher Family Hall.

There will be an introduction by Dr. Robert Corrigan, President of San Francisco State University, and a reception following the lecture.

Kaplan was appointed to his current position at SFSU in August 2011. Before assuming his duties, he was a lecturer in Israel studies at Princeton University. A full bio is available on the registration page.

Reservations are required. Please register here or call Lehrhaus at 510-845-6420.

The event is co-sponsored by the Department of Jewish Studies at San Francisco State, Lehrhaus Judaica and the Jewish Community Center of San Francisco.

Register here.

This event on the history of the Jews of the Bay Area, is dedicated to the memory of Seymour Fromer, the Judah L. Magnes Museum’s visionary co-founder.

Sunday, February 12
10:30 am-4 pm
The Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life, UC Berkeley
2121 Allston Way, Berkeley

Presenters biographies

Presentation descriptions

Tribute Honoring Seymour Fromer (1922-2009)
Co-founder of the Magnes Museum with Rebecca Fromer
Featuring a short documentary by Bill Chayes

Keynote Speaker
Fred Rosenbaum: Founding Director, Lehrhaus Judaica, author of Cosmopolitans

“Controversies That Shook the Jewish Community”

Three Periods That Shaped the Community (choose a panel)

The Pioneer Age – Moderator: Francesco Spagnolo

• Ava Kahn: The Jews Rushed In: A Multi-National Community by the Bay
• Frances Dinkelspiel: “Our Crowd” West: The Shaping of San Francisco and Its Jewish Community
• Mary Ann Irwin: Private Charity and Public Activism: Jewish Women in San Francisco, 1855-1906

Between the Wars – Moderator: Stephen Dobbs

• Kenneth L. Kann: The Jewish Radical Experience: Petaluma & Beyond
• Fred Rosenbaum: The Cataclysms of the 1940s: How Bay Area Jews Responded to the Holocaust and Zionism
• Ellen Eisenberg: To Cry Down Injustice? Bay Area Jewish Responses to the Japanese-American Internment

Innovation & Dissent: From the 1960s to the Present - Moderator: Marc Klein

• Deborah Kaufman: Innovative Cultural Institutions
• Dorothy Richman: Religious Innovation: House of Love & Prayer, Aquarian Minyan & Jewish Meditation
• Yoel Kahn: Twice Blessed & Challenged: Coming Out/In to the Jewish Community
• David Cooper: Student & Youth Activism After 1967: Soviet Jewry, Anti-War, and Dissent on Israel

Performance By Charlie Varon
“Sam Josephson must have had his medications adjusted, because now all of a sudden he was making sense.” So begins Charlie Varon’s latest fictional monologue, part of his series about elderly Jews living at an assisted living facility in San Francisco. It’s a comic tale about grandparents, grandchildren, politics and Jewish life in the 21st century.

In-Depth Workshops
Aryae Coopersmith
From the Summer of Love to the House of Love and Prayer

Ellen Eisenberg
From Protest to Collaboration: California Jews and Japanese-American Internment

Ava Kahn
Two Women Who Changed the West: Mary Goldsmith Prag and Her Daughter Florence Prag Kahn

Marc Klein
From the Mid 1980s Until Today: The Community Controversies and How the Jewish Bulletin/j. Covered Them

Steve Rivo
America’s First Jewish Photographer Goes West (pre-premier documentary film screening)

Gina Waldman
The Struggle for Soviet Jewry

Peretz Wolf-Prusan
Camp Swig: Summers of Love, Art, and Creating Jewish Identity

Tours
Magnes Director Alla Effimova will offer tours of the collection before the opening session (10 am) and during the workshops.

This conference is followed by a unique event on February 26 in Palo Alto, Where Are We Heading: Voices in Our Community Imagining What’s Next.

Price
$25 pre-registration (includes lunch); $35 at the door
There will be a vegetarian boxed lunch for those who register in advance. Paying at the door does not guarantee lunch.

The conference is made possible by the generous support of The Lazslo N. Tauber Family Foundation, the Koret Foundation, Irving and Varda Rabin, Jay Espovich and Frances Dinkelspiel.

Special thanks to our co-sponsors: The Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life, UpStart Bay Area and The Marsh

Register here.

“The First Pop-Up Jewish Record Store in the World”

Tikva Records

Thursday, December 1 – Wednesday, December 28, 2011

(3191 Mission Street, San Francisco, CA)

All Events are Free with a Rotating Suggested Donation

Advance Ticket Reservations Required via Eventbrite: http://tikvarecords.eventbrite.com

An Eclectic Series of Exclusive Live Music Performances, Film Screenings, Academic Lectures,

Comedians, SF Public School Remix Workshops, Food Trucks and More!

Featuring:

*Fool’s Gold (CD Release Event)

*El Gavachillo con Banda La Juvenil w/ Wil-Dog of Ozomatli

*Steve Berlin of Los Lobos

*Zach Rogue (Rogue Wave)

*The Burton Sisters

*Members of Dengue Fever

*Sam Hoffman and Eric Spiegelman (Producers of Old Jews Telling Jokes)

*Geo Trio w/ Original Members of Garaj Mahal and Special Guest Rasaki Aladokun

*Jeremiah Lockwood w/ Guests Ethan Miller (Comets On Fire, Howlin Rain) and Luther Dickinson (North Mississippi Allstars/The Black Crowes)

*49^th Street All-Stars w/ Dan Lebowitz (ALO), Trevor Garrod (Tea Leaf Green), Nicki Bluhm, Reed Mathis (JFJO), and Inx (Hamsa Lila)

*Dan Lebowitz & Friends

*Rebecca Bortman (My First Earthquake)

*Club Unicornio Kosher Mambo Party

The Idelsohn Society for Musical Preservation is thrilled to announce the opening of the World’s First Jewish Pop-Up Record Store in the heart of San Francisco’s Mission District: Tikva Records. Celebrating the national release of the new album, Songs for the Jewish-American Jet Set: The Tikva Records Story 1950 – 1973 (Release Date: November 22, 2011), The Idelsohn Society will present an eclectic series of events at the new replica of a ’50s record shop throughout the month of December 2011, including the eight nights of Chanukah.

Since its inception, Israel has been engaged in violent conflict with its neighbors and has had to deal with the challenges of occupation. The Koret Taube Center for Jewish Peoplehood at the Osher Marin JCC along with Congregation Kol Shofar and JCRC, in association with Congregation Rodef Sholom, present “ENGAGING ISRAEL” – A talk by Rabbi Donniel Hartman, Ph.D entitled “Israel: The Challenge of Power,” and an opening presentation by this year’s Osher Marin JCC Visiting Scholar Rachel Havrelock, Ph.D. on ”The History of the Map of Israel”.

Rabbi Hartman will explore how Israel can respond to its challenges and use its power in a way that is consistent with the highest standards of morality and Jewish values. He will examine how Israel can balance the legitimate right of self-defense with the values of peace and the rights of others.

Dr. Havrelock will compare maps of ancient Israel and the Second Temple period with maps drawn by Western powers in the 19th and early 20th centuries and the evolving map of the State of Israel. Havrelock is the author of River Jordan: The Mythology of a Dividing Line and a professor at the University of Illinois, Chicago.

WHO:  All are invited. Tickets are $18 for members of the Osher Marin JCC and co-sponsoring organizations and $20 for the public. For tickets visit marinjcc.org or call 415-444-8000.

WHEN:            November 16 at 7 pm

 WHERE:         Osher Marin JCC, 200 North San Pedro Road, San Rafael

The Jewish Community Center of San Francisco
3200 California Street @ Presidio
Free – Everyone is welcome
For registration please call 415.292.1200.
For more information, contact Shiva Schulz @ sschulz@jccsf.org or 415. 292.1260.

Register here.

This afternoon “TED-style” program will be of vital interest to everyone who is serious about the San Francisco Bay Area’s Jewish future. Short presentations will provide a glimpse of the future of our diverse and changing Bay Area Jewish community.

Sunday, February 26
1 pm to 5 pm
Albert and James Schultz Cultural Arts Hall
Oshman Family JCC, Palo Alto

“In seeking knowledge, the first step is silence, the second listening, the third remembering, the fourth practicing and the fifth teaching others.”
- Solomon Ibn Gabirol

Presenter biographies

Voices of our Community:

• Kim Carter: I was born Black and Jewish. Why do people keep asking me how I got to be Jewish?
• Marc Dollinger: I have been a long-time supporter of Jewish organizations. What will their role be in the coming decades?
• Shayna Gelender: I am a secular Reform Jew who just turned 30. How do I live my Judaism to advance social justice in my community?
• Patricia Hellman Gibbs: My family came here in the 1850’s.  What do I do now with this legacy?
• Zelig Golden: I was an environmental lawyer, and now I co-lead Wilderness Torah. How can we revitalize Jewish life by reconnecting Jewish traditions to the cycles of nature?
• Eliron Hambuerger: I was born a girl, but matured as a man. Is there a place for me in the Jewish community as transgender?
• David and Mira Peretz: We were born in Israel, immigrated to the US, and raised our children here. Why did our son enlist in the Israeli army?
• Angela Privien: I was born in Ukraine and raised in San Francisco. Where is my generation going?
• Abi Karlin-Resnick and Andy Cheng: We are an Asian-Jewish couple raising our kids as Jews. How compatible have our traditions been?
• Heather Richman: I was raised Christian, married a Jew, and building a Jewish home. How have I been seeking my place in Judaism?
• Ava Sayaka Rosen: I am part Japanese and a whole Jew since birth. When will people stop welcoming me?
• Lori Rubenstein: I was born in Korea, dipped in the Mikvah, and raised Jewish. What did I do with it?
• Robi Feliz Saphyra: I am an observant, educated, involved, and networked Jewish woman employed by the larger Jewish community and active in the smaller Orthodox community. Why do I feel like I have a foot in two different worlds?
• Henry Schreibman: I was in the center of Northern California Jewish Day School life and now I am a Jewish professor in a Catholic University and a public university. What is my new interfaith life like?
• Rona Teitelman: I am a single Jewish mother. Where do I find support in the community?

Price: $15 pre-registration; $25 at the door

The conference is made possible by the generous support of The Lazslo N. Tauber Family Foundation, the Koret Foundation, and Irving and Varda Rabin.

Special thanks to our co-sponsors: The Osher Marin JCC and UpStart Bay Area

Register here.

Pizza n’the Hut
Sunday, Oct 16, noon to 3 pm
What: Shake the Lulav, nosh on pizza, sing songs in the sukkah with Rabbit Mark Melamut.

Simchat Torah Family Parade
Thursday, Oct 20, 2011 at 7 pm
March with us and the Torah in a candy parade

Mimi Greisman Tot Shabbat For Young Families
Saturday, November 5, 10.30 am-noon
Join Mimi Greisman with a brandnew program for young families. It will include Jewish content, guitar, singing, puppets, rainbow parachute, bubbles, and more. Bagel nosh and coffee for parents.

Prof. David Biale, presenter

Lehrhaus Judaica is planning a series of academic symposia to be held in the Tauber Library of the JFCS Holocaust Center in San Francisco.

Each symposium is designed for a specific cohort, i.e., academics, educators, and inter-faith leaders. Participants will be invited to the library, tour the archive with Judy Janec, director of library and archives at the Tauber Holocaust Library, and participate in an educational presentation associated with their area of interest.

Lehrhaus is planning three seasons of symposia: Fall Invitational Symposia on the Lessons of Kristallnacht; Winter Symposia; and a Spring Symposia honoring the 70th anniversary of Anne Frank beginning her diary.

These programs are by invitation only. We are planning public programs to be announced in the near future.

Fall 2011 Invitational Symposia: Lessons of Kristallnacht

BJE Educators’ Council
Teaching Kristallnacht In The Jewish Classroom: Lesson Plans, Resources, and Discussion Points

San Francisco Inter-Faith Council
“Weapons of the Spirit: Faith Communities Sheltering Jews in North Africa and France”

Holocaust Educators
“Teaching Kristallnacht In The Jewish Classroom: Lesson Plans, Resources, and Discussion Points for the High School and College Students”

Academic Institutions
“Kristallnacht: The End of the Beginning, or the Beginning of the End?” Dr. David Biale, Emanuel Ringelblum Professor of Jewish History in the Department of History of University of California Davis, Fred Rosenbaum, Lehrhaus Judaica and Judy Janec, Tauber Holocaust Library

2012 Winter Symposia

Holocaust Studies Interest Groups
“Partnerships and Progress: How Do We Professionally Support Each Other”

Northern California Board of Rabbis
“How Will We Teach the Holocaust In The Post-Survivor Era?”

Bay Area Poets and Writers
Public, Parochial and Independent School Teachers and the Jewish Partisan Foundation

 September 15, 17 & 18 Only!
The Marsh Berkeley

“Hyman’s one-man performance piece transports the Orthodoxy of that Hasidic tale to secular America…his transformations reveal the essence of character in simple choreographic strokes.” – The Jerusalem Post

Yehuda Hyman is a playwright, actor, poet, choreographer and dancer whose work explores the intersection of theater, dance, poetry, myth and mysticism. He will perform The Mad 7, a modern-day riff on The Seven Beggars, a Jewish folktale written more than two centuries ago by Rabbi Nachman of Breslov. Written by Hyman and directed by Mara Isaacs, The Mad 7 tells the epic tale of Elliott Green, a San Francisco office drone turned reluctant hero who embarks on a strange and mystical quest.  Through music, dance and uniquely personal storytelling, Hyman offers a hilarious, offbeat and moving story of spiritual awakening and self-discovery.

Information and tickets at http://www.themarsh.org/yehuda_hyman.html

 This show is produced in association with The Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life.