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Kiev: My Family’s Roots in the Jewish Metropolis by Linda Michels

I recently attended Natan Meir’s lecture, Kiev: Jewish Metropolis, offered by New Lehrhaus.  Most of my maternal grandmother’s family emigrated from outside Kiev, Ukraine between 1902 and 1905.  As a child, I asked my great grandmother many questions, but she…

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Care to Make it Interesting

In the 1990s, when I was directing the Center for Jewish Studies at the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley, a most unusual PhD student walked into my office: a former yeshiva bocher (Orthodox seminary student) who could recite both complex…

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Upcoming Program on Intermarriage by Dawn Kepler, New Lehrhaus Board Member

Nu, what do you think about Intermarriage? On January 19th Professor Bruce Phillips (Hebrew Union College, Los Angeles, and USC: https://crcc.usc.edu/people/bruce-phillips/) will present: How Interfaith Marriage is Changing the American Jewish Community – But Not Necessarily in the Ways We…

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Standing on the shoulders of our predecessors

Board member David Waksberg reflects on his participation in New Lehrhaus   My earliest memory of Jewish schooling was learning about Abraham smashing his father’s idols. No surprise, this midrash about Abraham as a child is accessible and relatable for young children and it...
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Hebrew & Yiddish Classes!

Whether you were born Jewish and never learned Hebrew (perhaps despite hours warming the chair at Hebrew School...) or you chose Judaism as an adult, tackling a new language IN A NEW ALPHABET is daunting. Yet mastery of even the...
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Reading Yiddish Lit with Naomi Seidman

Naomi Seidman is one of our most popular teachers and we are thrilled she is returning this fall with this remarkable class. You've no doubt heard of Sholem Aleichem, but perhaps not the other Yiddish writers she will discuss. I'm...
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Bible Class with UCB Professors

Let’s take a look at an exciting class that is coming in November, The Bible Now: Literature and History of the Hebrew Bible. This course is a multilayered introduction to the Bible, addressing such issues as the relation of traditional texts...
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  • Kiev: My Family’s Roots in the Jewish Metropolis by Linda Michels June 1, 2022
  • Andrew Porwancher May 10, 2022
  • Welcoming New Lehrhaus’ FIRST staff member February 27, 2022
  • Care to Make it Interesting February 15, 2022
  • Upcoming Program on Intermarriage by Dawn Kepler, New Lehrhaus Board Member January 14, 2022

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