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Eve Bernstein (in purple) with her family

Lehrhaus Judaica and honoree Eve Bernstein wish to thank the following individuals and organizations for making our 36th anniversary memorable. Approximately 250 people attended a gala at the Palace Hotel in San Francisco on February 21 to mark our double chai anniversary. Thanks to everyone for helping us become a national leader in adult Jewish education.

Here is a complete list of the sponsors for our 36th anniversary:

Chancellor
Eve Bernstein and Alex Gersznowicz
The Goodman Family Foundation
Eda and Joseph Pell
The Laszlo N. Tauber Family Foundation

Dean
Mem Dryan Bernstein, Suzanne and Elliott Felson, and the Smorgon Family
Chris and Warren Hellman
Fran and Bobby Lent
Susan and Moses Libitzky
Barbara and Richard Rosenberg
Diane and Howard Zack

Professor
Barbara and Gerson Bakar
Patricia C. Dunn-Jahnke and
William Jahnke
Anita Friedman
Phyllis K. Friedman
Nancy and Stephen Grand
Bill Lowenberg
Lisa and John Pritzker
Varda and Irving Rabin
Ruthellen Toole

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As Lehrhaus celebrates our 36th Anniversary this year, we thank you for your help. If you’d like to show continued support, please click here to donate.

Join us for one or all of Fred Rosenbaum’s talks on different themes in his new book, Cosmopolitans: A Social and Cultural History of the Bay Area (UC Press, 2009).

Cosmopolitans: The Jews of the Bay Area from the Gold Rush to the Present
Thursday, April 29, 7 pm
Congregation Beth El, Berkeley

Early Emancipation: Bay Area Jewish Women from the Gold Rush to the Present
Wednesday, May 5, 7 pm
Oshman Family JCC, Palo Alto
Click here to read a review of the book in the San Francisco Chronicle.

The book was also recently selected as recommended reading by the San Francisco Chronicle.

The book was featured as the cover story in the January 29 issue of j. The Jewish News Weekly. Click here to read the full story: From Gold Rush to gay rights: new book chronicles history of Jewish life in Bay Area

Keynote Speaker Professor Ari Kelman

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 on issues of interest for the American Jewish community, especially the challenge of sustaining Jewish identity among the young. Covering a wide range of topics in one afternoon, Where We Are, Where We’re Going is a great way to catch up and move forward in your community outreach and education efforts. Refreshments and dinner (no meat products) are included in the program.

Tuition: $30 (need-based scholarships available)

Note: Enrollment is limited to 30 participants

Click here to register.

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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 the Jewish community and women’s philanthropy, shifts in how we create our families, what’s going on in the new feminist scholarship, and more.

View the exhibit at Berkeley Hillel from March 17 – May 12.

Lehrhaus will celebrate the opening of the exhibit with a free panel discussion about Lilith and the Jewish women’s movement on Thursday, March 18, at 7 p.m. Enjoy wine and hors· d’oeuvres and a stimulating panel discussion, featuring:

• Rabbi Judy Shanks of Temple Isaiah
• Rabbi Jane Litman, Western regional director, Jewish Reconstructionist Federation
• Maya Bernstein, writer and Lilith blogger
• Rachel Biale, Bay Area regional director, Progressive Jewish Alliance