In partnership with JCCSF and Congregation Sha'ar Zahav

In partnership with and a part of The JFCSC Holocaust Center Day of Learning and with the Jewish Studies Program at UC Davis

Jody Hirsh: Bible, Midrash, Art: The Richness of Bible Narratives (Virtual on Zoom)

In partnership with KlezCalifornia

In partnership with KlezCalifornia

Learn this rich and colorful language in a relaxed, irreverent and heimishe atmosphere.

Eleanor Shapiro: Jewish Music Matters

Rachel & David Biale: Aerograms Across the Ocean: A Love Story in Letters

Presented by the Jewish Community Library: You must register through the Jewish Community Library link: https://jewishlearning.works/event/aerograms-across-the-ocean/  No registration option through New Lerhhaus.

4 sessions, Wednesdays, April 13, 20, May 4, 11  @ 7:00 - 8:15 pm. Virtual on Zoom.

Since our beginnings, the ache of exile and longing to come home have run through Jewish life and writings: our poetry is rich with them. We will read Biblical, Golden Age Spain, Modernist and contemporary texts, and write our own pieces in response. For writers of any experience level—come prepared to generate some material!

In partnership with Urban Adamah

In partnership with Americans for Ben-Gurion University

While synagogues and sacred books were rarely illustrated, Medieval Jews commissioned and created marvelously illustrated Haggadot (Haggadahs). The pictures in these 14th - 16th century books can tell us a lot about both how their illustrators and viewers imagined the Biblical story and the clothing, buildings, food, celebrations and humor of their own day. We will examine several of the most beautiful and interesting examples of the illustrated medieval Haggadah, comparing the variety of styles, images and artistry among them.