An exclusive opportunity limited to 20 participants

Travel to Argentina and Uruguay with Ariel Goldstein, a veteran tour guide who was born and raised in that region, and Fred Rosenbaum, scholar of Jewish communities. Visit Buenos Aires, Iguazu Falls, and Montivideo to experience the Jewish culture and spectacular sights in intimate settings. The tour includes five star hotels and gourmet dining.

For more information, contact Ariel Goldstein at agoldstein@jccsf.org or 415-276-1506.

This study tour was made possible by the Lazslo N. Tauber Family Foundation.

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 Area Jewish community.

We would love you to join us for family programming in the early evening, featuring sessions for ages 2-12. We are also offering childcare and a sleeping room (for ages 2 and up) until the end of the Tikkun. Parents must provide bedding, stay on-site and pre-register online.

We are looking for volunteers for this year’s Tikkun. Whether you have volunteered in the past or are new to the Tikkun, there are so many opportunities, from food prep to greeting to clean up, at all times throughout the night. For more information or to sign-up, please contact Lauren Greis at tikkun@jcceastbay.org.

Join us in celebrating Shavuot!

Fred Rosenbaum, the author of Cosmopolitans: A Social and Cultural History of the Jews of the San Francisco Bay Area (UC Press, 2009), will speak about the artist on Tuesday, May 15. RSVP here. A reception and tour of the exhibition is scheduled for 6:30 pm, with a lecture at 7 p.m.

Bernard Zakheim (1896-1985), who was born and raised in Warsaw under Czarist Russia and lived in his old age on a commune near Sebastopol, California, was one of the most seminal Jewish artists on the West Coast. He vividly portrayed Hasidism, the Holocaust, Israel, and the American Civil Rights Movement in his watercolors and oils, murals and sculptures. This lecture will focus on Zakheim’s most productive period, the early 1930s, when he was at the center of the greatest public art controversy in San Francisco’s history, the Coit Tower murals.

Rosenbaum, founding director of Lehrhaus Judaica, is the co-curator of the Zakheim exhibition. The exhibition was made possible by a lead grant from the Koret Foundation, the Laszlo N. Tauber Family Foundation, and the Fleishhacker Foundation. Special thanks to The Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life, UC Berkeley.

The Zakheim exhibition is currently on display at the Oshman Family JCC in Palo Alto until March 29.

Explore the cultural treasures of Jewish, Islamic and Christian Spain. Savor the cuisine and wines of a rich culinary heritage. Wander the winding paths of ancient neighborhoods and discover the modern wonders of its 21^st century cities. Here are just a few highlights of our Espana adventure:

• Madrid: the Royal Palace, El Prado Museum, Kabbalat Shabbat at Bet Yaakov
• Spain’s Jerusalem—Toledo: Sephardic Museum, El Transito Synagogue; El Greco masterworks
• Granada: the Alhambra; Jewish Quarter, Albacyn neighborhood
• Cordoba: Maimonides Synagogue, Great Mosque, Casa de Sefarad
• Seville: Alcazar Palace, Juderia, Great Cathedral, La Giralda Cathedral
• Bullet Train to Barcelona: Montjuic, Gaudi’s Modernist homes and Sagrada Familia, Las Ramblas Promenade

Tour Leaders: Fred Rosenbaum, Ariel Goldstein and Dr. Jehon Grist

For more information, please contact Ariel Goldstein at agoldstein@jccsf.org or 415-276-1506.

 The Lehrhaus Traveling Classroom is a partnership with the Jewish Community Center of San Francisco.

 Traveling Classroom tours are made possible by the Laszlo N. Tauber Family Foundation.

The plan is to release two videos per week. Please help us share the videos widely as the messages are powerful. We are eager to receive your feedback in the comment fields on YouTube. To see the full scope of the voices we will be sharing, check out this preview. The preview video also features observations from Stanford Professor Ari Y. Kelman.

Shayna Gelender: She is a secular Reform Jew who just turned 30. Her Judaism is to advance social justice in her community.

Henry Shreibman: He was in the center of Northern California Jewish day school life, and now he is a Jewish professor in a Catholic university and a public university. This gives new meaning to an interfaith life.

Rona Teitelman: She is a single, Jewish mother who has received great support in the Jewish community for herself and her son.

Marc Dollinger: He is a Jewish studies professor raised in a highly assimilated home. Learn what that means to him personally and professionally.

Kim Carter: She was born black and Jewish and is tired of people asking her how she became Jewish.

Special thanks to the Oshman Family JCC and UpStart Bay Area for co-sponsoring the conference and to our supporters — The Laszlo N. Tauber Family Foundation, The Koret Foundation, and Irving and Varda Rabin.

June 26-July 11, 2012 
To apply, click here.

Legacy Tour Flyer

Our group of teens, college students, and adults will visit impressive new museums and memorials in Berlin; walk the silent paths of Auschwitz–Birkenau with a Holocaust survivor; celebrate Shabbat in the historic Jewish neighborhood of Krakow; and reflect upon Jewish life in Jerusalem.

High school students will be joined by a select group of college students who will help lead this exciting educational journey. The student and adult groups will be traveling on separate, but parallel itineraries with special opportunities for multi-generational discussion.

Morgan Blum, Director of Education, JFCS Holocaust Center, and Lehrhaus Judaica’s Rabbi and Senior Educator, Peretz Wolf-Prusan, will lead the study tour.

For more information, contact Morgan Blum, Director of Education, JFCS Holocaust Center: MorganB@jfcs.org or 415-449-1289.

 The JFCS Holocaust Center – Lehrhaus Study Tour is supported by the Laszlo N. Tauber Family Foundation and the Taube Foundation for Jewish Life & Culture.

Let’s celebrate the diversity of our community with a party! RSVP here.

Join us on Saturday, May 12, from 6:30-8:30 p.m. at Temple Sinai in Oakland for the culmination of What Color Are Jews? – a year-long program in partnership with Building Jewish Bridges, Temple Sinai and Lehrhaus Judaica.  The event is family friendly and features special activities for kids, including face painting and crafts.

The evening will feature music from Jewish communities around the world. Mark Levy’s performance combines Ashkenazi and Sephardi melodies.

Following the show, there will be a reception with finger foods from a variety of Jewish cuisines.

We will continue to explore the rainbow of our Jewish community during the 2012-13 academic year. Programs will be announced this summer.

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 province Volyn, and they fled to the forest where they fought back as Partisans.

Their stories will be shared on Sunday, April 22, as part of San Francisco’s Yom HaShoah remembrance and yizkor program at the Forum at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, 701 Mission Street.

Rare and newly discovered diaries, memoirs, and stories will be read by teens and survivors in the special program, “The Power of the Written Word: Diaries and Memoirs from the Holocaust.” The San Francisco Yom HaShoah commemoration, organized by JFCS, Lehrhaus Judaica, and the Jewish Community Relations Council, in cooperation with local synagogues, schools, and other organizations, starts at 4:30 p.m., with a reading of Holocaust victims’ names. The formal program begins at 5:30 p.m.

The event is free, and everyone in the community is invited to attend. Please RSVP to Katie Cook at 415-449-3717 or KatieC@jfcs.org.

Here is more information about other Yom HaShoah commemorations in the Bay Area:

In Marin County: Marin Community Yom HaShoah Commemoration at Congregation Kol Shofar, 215 Blackfield Drive, Tiburon. Wednesday, April 18, 7:00 – 8:30 pm. For more info: 415-388-1818 or Hbeneliezer@kolshofar.org.

In Sonoma County: Sonoma County Yom HaShoah Observance at the Friedman Center, 4676 Mayette Avenue, Santa Rosa. Sunday, April 22, 2:00 – 4:00 pm. For more info, click here.

On the North Peninsula: North Peninsula Yom Ha’Shoah V’Hagevurah Remembrance of the Holocaust and Acts of Courage at Congregation Beth Jacob, 1550 Alameda de las Pulgas, Redwood City. Special guest speaker Jeannette Kalker Ringold, a member of the Bay Area Hidden Children group. Wednesday, April 18, 6:30 –  8:30 pm.  For more info: click here.

On the South Peninsula: South Peninsula Yom Ha’Shoah v’Hagevurah 2012 Remembrance of the Holocaust and Acts of Courage at Congregation Beth Am, 26790 Arastradero Road, Los Altos Hills. An intergenerational commemoration featuring song, music, prayer, readings, and artwork. Wednesday, April 18, 6:30 –  8:30 pm.  For more info: click here.

2nd Annual Bay Area Walk Against Genocide

Sunday April 29, 2012
Lake Merritt, Oakland, CA

Noon-4 pm: Music & Tabling
1-2 pm: Program
2-3 pm: Walk

Register here.

• Hear UCSF Medical Center professionals present the latest on healthy living.
• Engage with local businesses and organizations who provide valuable resources to stay energized.
• Tune into insights, opportunities and challenges that support active, creative aging.
• Take advantage of sample classes, health screenings, chair massages, raffles, giveaways and much, much more!

Sponsored by UCSF Medical Center

Free – Everyone is welcome

For registration please call 415.292.1200

For more information, contact Shiva Schulz @ sschulz@jccsf.org or 415. 292.1260.