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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.
Register here.
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. Register here. 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.
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
Passover University Attend Passover University – a community multi-generational event — to help you prepare for Passover on Sunday, April 10 from 10 am to 12:45 p.m. at Congregation Beth El in Berkeley. See the attached flyer for details.
Tikkun Leyl Shavuot Flyer JCC East Bay, Berkeley Branch, 1414 Walnut Street From Dusk ‘Till Dawn, FREE A unique community-wide celebration and night of learning, a spiritual journey bringing together Jews with varied perspectives and affiliations. Stay for an hour—or stay until dawn! We will be led in study by teachers from our diverse Bay [...]
In the coming weeks, we are excited to release videos from Lehrhaus 360′s Where We Are Heading: Voices From Our Community Imagining What’s Next. The approximately 7-10 minute videos introduce some of the faces of the emerging Jewish community.
June 26-July 11, 2012 To apply, click here. Legacy Tour Flyer
Rare Diaries and Memoirs to be Shared at Holocaust Commemoration THE POWER OF THE WRITTEN WORD: DIARIES AND MEMOIRS FROM THE HOLOCAUST Gloria Lyon was only a teenager in Czechoslovakia when she and her family were rounded up by the Nazis and taken to Auschwitz. Joseph Pell and Sonia Orbuch were teenagers in the Polish [...]