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Every Picture Tells a Story: Beginning Egyptian Hieroglyphs
Jehon Grist
Sun., June 17-July 29
Lehrhaus Judaica, Berkeley
Ancient Egyptian was one of the first ‘picture languages,’ employing beautiful images to express consonants, syllables and whole words. When Biblical Hebrew was born, Egyptian writing was already 2000 years old, a language rich in religious and secular literature.
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How We Got Here: Reflecting on the Past 150 Years
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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.
Leon Wieseltier
Thank you to the approximately 170 people who attended the most recent Lehrhaus 360 conference — Anti-Semitism: Historical Perspectives, Fresh Insights — at the Osher Marin JCC. The feedback was outstanding, and we will use it to help shape our two conferences that are on tap for the 2011-12 academic year.
Lehrhaus 360 presents Anti-Semitism: Historical Perspectives, Fresh Insights on Sunday, May 15, from 12:30-6 p.m. at the Osher Marin JCC in San Rafael.
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Click here to read the j. article on the conference.
Anti-Semitism Conference Flyer
Leon Wieseltier, the keynote speaker, has served as the literary editor of The New Republic since 1983. (more…)
Thank you to the approximately 450 people who attended Belonging Without Believing: Engaging Secular Jewish Culture on February 6 at the JCC of San Francisco.
The overall response to the conference was outstanding! The conference was made possible by the generous support of the Posen Foundation, the Laszlo N. Tauber Family Foundation and the Koret Foundation.
Here is a pictorial look back at the first Lehrhaus 360 conference.