Join us on a musical journey from "I Have a Little Dreidel" and "Rock of Ages" to original songs, hilarious Tom Lehrer satiric numbers, and Hanukkah-themed new lyrics set to music by Leonard Bernstein and other acclaimed composers. Listen to songs you may have never heard about the Maccabees, the history of Hanukkah, and the "miracle" of making edible latkes in the song "Latkes, Shmatkes.”

In partnership with Osher Marin JCC and Temple Sinai

In partnership with Berkeley Rep and Taube Philanthropies

Sunday, December 4 @ 2-4:30pm

In partnership with the East Bay International Jewish Film Festival and the Contra Costa Jewish Community Center

In partnership with the Jewish Studies Program at UC Berkeley and the Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life, the Helen Diller Institute for Jewish Law and Israel Studies at UC Berkeley, and the Jewish Film Institute

Amos Oz is Israel’s best-known writer and a champion of peace with the Palestinians in a two-state solution, as a prominent member of Peace Now (Shalom Achshav) and a public intellectual. His work - a body of 40 books - has been translated to 45 l... Read more

In person at the Magnes Museum in Berkeley.

In partnership with the Jewish Studies Program and the Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life, the Helen Diller Institute for Jewish Law and Israel Studies at UC Berkeley, the Jewish Film Institute, and the Consulate General of Israel, San Francisco.

Join Rachel Biale for the launch of her historical novel, Lost and Found, based on the true story of a Viennese Jewish family on the refugee boat with Rachel’s parents, all fleeing Nazi-occupied Europe. Apprehended at sea by the British Navy, the family, with other refugees, boards the Patria, a large ship in the Haifa harbor, to be deported to the island of Mauritius. Moments after their arrival on the Patria deck there is an explosion; the ship sinks and their four-year-old boy disappears. The novel weaves a fictional narrative from that point forward, anchored in the family’s true story and built on historically authentic portrayals of WWII Haifa, a city shared (as it is today) by Moslems, Jews and Christians. Each community plays a key role as the drama unfolds.