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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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Lehrhaus Judaica worked with Bill Chayes and Ben Pierce to produce this video in memory of Seymour Fromer (1922-2009), the visionary co-founder of the Judah L. Magnes Museum. Fromer profoundly touched so many lives, including Lehrhaus Founding Director Fred Rosenbaum.
Zakheim: The Art of Prophetic Justice received glowing reviews in the fall of 2010 at the Jazz Heritage Center in San Francisco.
If you missed the exhibition, you will be able to see the photographic history portion in multiple locations in the Bay Area in 2012.
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The exhibit Scattered Among the Nations, which is currently on display at Temple Sinai through the end of the year, challenges the stereotypes of what Jews look like. But are we more comfortable with Asian or black Jews in exotic locations than with the person sitting next to us in shul?
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