Program Archive
New Lehrhaus • 2021 – Present
Biblical Text
31- Archaeology Before the BibleSteve Rosen
- Art as Biblical CommentaryAzzan Yadin-Israel
- Chew-ish/Jew-ish Lunch & Learn: What Really Happened at Sinai?Jessica Graf
- Friday Torah StudyMultiple Instructors
- Friendship in the Bible and Rabbinic TextsPatricia Karlin-Neumann
- Just Like Everybody Else, Only More So: Jewish Romans and the Rise of ChristianityPaula Fredriksen
- Prophets and Prophecy True and False in the Biblical WorldJehon Grist
- Reading Biblical Hebrew • A Betrothal Story: Isaac and RebekahJehon Grist
- Reading Biblical Hebrew • Abimelech Biblical Bad BoyJehon Grist
- Reading Biblical Hebrew • Jerusalem Falls Jeremiah 586 Bce and Josephus 70 CeJehon Grist
- Reading the Bible • Gifts of the Land: Food in the Biblical World and TextJehon Grist
- Reading the Bible • Wisdom in the Wine its Uses and Abuses in the Biblical WorldJehon Grist
- Reading the Bible • In the Beginning: Biblical and Other Creation StoriesJehon Grist
- Reading the Bible • Josiah's Three Stories: Kings, Chronicles, and JosephusJehon Grist
- Reading the Bible • Tricksters and the Art of DeceptionJehon Grist
- The Bible Now Qohelet EcclesiastesRobert Alter & Ron Hendel
- Ruth: A Literary Masterpiece, A Lesson in KindnessShalhevet Robinson
- Sacred Sounds: Kabbalat Shabbat Exploration in Learning & SongRobert Alter & Daniel Matt
- Scriptural Tales RetoldErich S. Gruen
- Reading the Bible • Isaiah 40–41: Defining and Defending Divine PowerJehon Grist
- The Bible Now: GenesisRobert Alter & Ron Hendel
- The Bible on the Couch: A Rabbi and Psychiatrist Analyze Sacred TextsJudy Shanks & James Gracer
- Reading the Bible • The Four Horned Altar: Searching for its Meaning and OriginJehon Grist
- The Fourth Window: Documentary Film About Amos OzYair Qedar, Robert Alter & Fania Oz-Salzberger
- The Kennicott Bible: A Masterpiece of Jewish Book ArtKatrin Kogman-Appel
- The Torah of Birth and ParentingDeena Aranoff & Naama Sedan
- To Be a Jew in the World: Torah from Sinai to OaklandRebecca Kaplan
- What Really Happened at SinaiJehon Grist & Peretz Wolf-Prusan
- What Really Happened on Passover?Robert Alter & Ron Hendel
- What Really Happened on PurimJehon Grist
- Where Heaven and Earth Kiss: Exploring New Perspectives in Jewish Environmental EthicsAriel Mayse
Talmud & Rabbinic Literature
17- A Taste of TalmudPeretz Wolf-Prusan
- An Introduction to Bay Area Talmud CirclesPeretz Wolf-Prusan
- Berkeley Community Talmud CircleDeena Aranoff
- Bible, Midrash, and Art: The Richness of Bible NarrativesJody Hirsh
- Care to Make It Interesting? Seinfeld, Jewish Culture & the TalmudRon Reissberg
- Domestics or Divas? Women in the TalmudJudith Hauptman
- Lunchtime Community Talmud CirclePeretz Wolf-Prusan
- Marin Community Talmud CircleDorothy Richman
- Palo Alto Community Talmud CirclePeretz Wolf-Prusan
- People of the Book — But What Book? The Confrontation Between Torah and TalmudRon Reissberg
- Rabbi Dorothy Richman's Talmud CircleDorothy Richman
- Rabbi Peretz Wolf-Prusan's Talmud CirclePeretz Wolf-Prusan
- San Francisco Community Talmud CirclePeretz Wolf-Prusan
- Talmud Circle 2025–26Peretz Wolf-Prusan
- Talmud for BeginnersDaniel Boyarin
- Talmud Study: High Holy DaysDeena Aranoff
- The World of MidrashYoel Kahn
Jewish Mysticism & Kabbalah
9- Exploring HasidismAriel Evan Mayse
- Exploring the Zohar (in English)Daniel Matt
- Exploring the Zohar (in Aramaic)Daniel Matt
- Exploring the Zohar in EnglishDaniel Matt
- The Dybbuk Century: 100 Years of the Jewish Play That Possessed the WorldDebra Caplan
- The Essential KabbalahDaniel Matt
- The Tree of Life: Making Kabbalistic DiagramsYosef Rosen
- This Week in Jewish Mysticism: Reading the Zohar's Commentary on the Weekly Torah PortionPeretz Wolf-Prusan
Jewish History & Culture
33- 80th Anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto UprisingZachary Mazur
- A Remedy for the Evil Eye: History of the Jews of AfghanistanKen Blady & Manny Yekutiel
- A Ukrainian Chapter: A Jewish Aid Worker's Memoir of SorrowMichael Nutkiewicz
- Abortion through Multiple LensesRachel Biale, Shalhevet Sarah Robinson, Michal Kohane, Carole Joffe, Debbie Bamberger, Roslyn Banish & Linda Scaparotti
- Among Cossacks and Commissars: A History of Ukrainian JewryKen Blady
- Around the World with FredFred Rosenbaum
- Birds of a Feather: Sephardic Jews and the Exotic Bird Feathers Craze in Pre-WWI EuropeSarah Abrevaya Stein
- Blood Libel: On the Trail of an Antisemitic Myth (Annual Pell Lecture)Magda Teter
- Fit Nation: Jews, Exercise & the Making of Modern American Fitness CultureNatalia Mehlman Petrzela
- From Animosity to Solidarity: Jews and Chinese in San FranciscoFred Rosenbaum & Yong Chen
- Heritage and Memory: The Jews of GreeceJehon Grist & Jim Mavrikios
- Honoring Your Jewish Child's Non-Jewish HeritageDawn Kepler
- How Interfaith Marriage Is Changing the American Jewish Community (But Not Necessarily in the Ways We Think/Fear)Bruce Phillips
- How the Bulgarian Jews Survived the HolocaustJoseph Benatov
- Jewish Identity in the World of Pagan AntiquityErich Gruen
- Jews and Gentiles in Antiquity: A Love-Hate RelationshipErich Gruen
- Jews of Color: Taking Charge of Your Jewish IdentityKim Carter-Martinez
- Millennial Jewish Stars: Navigating Racial Antisemitism, Masculinity & White SupremacyJonathan Branfman
- Poverty in the Bay Area Jewish CommunityBruce Phillips & Steve Chester & Robin Mencher
- Preaching the Promised Land: Mary Antin's American ReligionsRachel B. Gross
- Smiling through Tears: Jewish Humor in AntiquityErich Gruen
- Soil to Soul: Agriculture and Jewish Culture SeriesJhos Singer, Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett, Yael Raviv, Jesse Yurow, Ariel Mayse, Debbie Harris & Aliza Grayevsky Somekh
- Stepchildren of the Shtetl: The Destitute, Disabled, and Mad of Jewish Eastern Europe 1800–1939Natan Meir
- The Architecture of Survival in the HolocaustNatalia Romikhideouts
- The French Revolution: Was It Good for the Jews?Jeremy Popkin
- The Jewish World of Alexander HamiltonAndrew Porwancher
- The Jews of Morocco: Prep Series for Study TourYoel Kahn, Vanessa Paloma Elbaz, Alma Heckman & Sarah Levin
- The Jews of the Rhineland and AlsaceFred Rosenbaum & Rachel Biale
- The World to Begin Again: Jews and the American RevolutionMichael Hoberman
- Walking in the Valley of the ShadowMultiple Presenters
- We Were Here: HIV/AIDS, the Bay Area and the Jewish CommunityYoel Kahn, David Weissman & Avi Rose
- Welcoming the New Year and the Stranger (Partnership with JFCS East Bay & HIAS)Sarah Gakenia Cleveland, Joe Goldman & Nawida Popa
- Zelda Popkin: A Jewish Woman Ahead of Her TimeJeremy Popkin
Yiddish Language & Literature
6- Isaac Bashevis Singer's Simple GimpleDavid Stromberg & David Roskies
- Rabbi Nachman's Tales & A Heritage of SoundRobby Adler Peckerar & Anthony Mordechai Tzvi Russell
- Klezmer Music & Culture: Chords and ChronologyDmitri Gaskin
- The Fiddler PhenomenonNaomi Seidman, Alisa Solomon & Bonnie Weiss
- The Tsenerene: The Most Popular Yiddish Book in HistoryAvi Blitz
- Worldmaking Action: How Children's Literature Imagined Jewish FuturesMiriam Udel
Israel & Contemporary Issues
14- A Turn in Israel: Politics and Society in Today's Jewish StateFred Rosenbaum
- Am Yisrael High: Jews and CannabisEddy Portnoy
- Between Shtisl and Fauda: Images of Israeli Men in Israeli TV SeriesIlan Vitemberg
- Gold and the Price of Collective HubrisEran Kaplan
- In Memory of Ilan VitembergYair Qedar
- Israel Prep Course: Give Peace a ChanceMultiple Presenters
- Israel/Palestine: A Dual Narrative ApproachEleanor Shapiro
- Reflects on Israel's Current Complex RealityBarak Heymann
- Resistance: Hitler's Germany, the US under McCarthy, Eastern Europe, South America, South Africa & IsraelMultiple Presenters
- Temptation Transformed: How the Forbidden Fruit Became an AppleAzzan Yadin-Israel
- The End of IsraelBradely Burston
- The Intractable Middle East: Dual NarrativesEleanor Shapiro
- What Now? Analysis of Israel's ElectionsKen Bob
- When Israel Was in Egypt's Land: The Middle Kingdom Ramses II and the ExodusJehon Grist
Arts, Film & Music
25- Amos Oz: Writer, Activist, IconRobert Alter
- Breads of the JewsAliza Grayevsky Somekh
- By the Waters of Babylon: Jews and Music in IraqJohn Erlich
- Cabaret Culture in Interwar PolandEllie Shapiro
- Contemporary Jewish Art: A Guide for the PerplexedRon Glait
- Convergence: African American & Eastern European Musical TraditionsAnthony Russell
- Cook Across the Centuries: Recipes from Historical CookbooksJesse Yurow
- David Grossman: Film and Lecture (Co-sponsored Program)Vered Weiss
- Descendants of Light: American Photographers of Jewish AncestryPenny Wollin
- Femmes Fatales, Monsters, and Murderers: The Jewish Presence in Weimar CinemaJanis Plotkin
- Hebrew Writers: Film Biographies and Text ReadingVered Weiss & Shirelle Doughty
- Jewish Music MattersEleanor Shapiro
- Lost and Found (Book Launch)Rachel Biale
- Mickey Katz: Yinglish Comedy & the Continuity of KlezmerUri Schreter
- Off the Derech: Haredi Judaism and Beyond in FilmJanis Plotkin & Karen Davis
- Oh, the Hora! American Klezmer and Israeli Folk Music in ConversationUri Schreter
- People of the CookbookBarbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett
- Poems on Paintings: A Workshop Using One Art to Explore AnotherStewart Florsheim
- Sex and Furniture in Jewish TraditionRachel Biale
- Short Film: Deciding Vote
- The Amazing Irving Berlin: From Yiddish Nightingale to White ChristmasBonnie Weiss
- The Promiscuous World of Jewish MusicJosh Horowitz
- The Queen's Table: An Evening of DelightDaniel Matt & Melila Hellner-Eshed
- Without Jews There Would Be No Comic Book SuperheroesHarry Manhoff
- Word Wizards: Broadway's Legendary Jewish LyricistsBonnie Weiss
Language Courses
20- Beginning Prayerbook Biblical HebrewJehon Grist
- Beginning Prayerbook Biblical Hebrew aJehon Grist
- Beginning Prayerbook Biblical Hebrew BJehon Grist
- Biblical HebrewJehon Grist
- Grist Prayerbook Biblical HebrewJehon Grist
- Grist Prayerbook Biblical Hebrew 1 AcceleratedJehon Grist
- Hebrew 1 Prayerbook Biblical Hebrew the Fast Easy WayJehon Grist
- Intermediate Biblical Prayerbook Hebrew DJehon Grist
- Intermediate Biblical Prayerbook Hebrew Level EJehon Grist
- Intermediate Prayerbook Biblical HebrewJehon Grist
- Judeo-Arabic and the Jews of North AfricaTsipora Gabai & Jim Mavrikios
- Judeo-Kashani: The Endangered Language of Iran's "Little Jerusalem"Jacob Kodner
- Ladino: History, Culture, Music & LanguageRivka Amado
- Ladino: History, Culture, Music & Language (First Session)Rivka Amado
- Modern Hebrew 5 LevelsTikva Farber
- Prayerbook Biblical HebrewJehon Grist
- The Land as Woman: The Afterlife of a Poetic Metaphor in Women's Modern Hebrew PoetryChana Kronfeld
- Yiddish 2 Lernen YiddishKen Blady
- Yiddish from ScratchKen Blady
- Yiddish Ii Lernen YiddishKen Blady
Jewish Philosophy & Thought
17- Aging with IntentionHoney Meir-Levi
- Buber and Heschel: Encountering the I-Thou and Articulating the IneffableMolly Karp
- Crazy Busy Jews: Overcoming a Crazy Busy Life as a Young Professional Using Applied Jewish WisdomGreg Marcus
- Divinity and Infinity: Exploring the Infinite in Mathematics and JudaismLarry Lesser
- Jewish Values vs. Democratic ValuesDavid Myers & Nomi Stolzenberg
- Martin Buber: A Land of Two PeoplesMolly Karp
- Modern Europe & SpinozaHannah Ginsborg & Sam Shonkoff
- Neshamah YogaKendra Fried
- Not Your Grandparents' Judaism: Exploring Personal Jewish Spiritual GrowthLavey Derby
- Old Boy at the New Lehrhaus: The Rosenzweig-Buber-Scholem Debate Transported to 2023Sam Shonkoff, Naomi Seidman & David Biale
- Roots: Getting Grounded in Jewish TraditionRory Katz & Elaina Marshalek
- The Chesed Voice: Kindness in Jewish TextsGreg Marcus
- The Ground on Which We Stand: Jewish Values Summoning Us to Care for Our Only HomeSheldon Lewis
- Time to Cancel Cancel Culture?Michael Krasny, Robert Alter, Eva Mrocek, Liora Halperin, Peretz Wolf-Prusan & Chai Levy
- Why Do Bad Things Happen to Good PeopleSteve Chester
- Writing with MussarJannie M. Dresser
- Yes, I Want to Be a MenschJudy Shanks
Holiday Programs
9- Mor Anukkah a Moroccan Hanukkah PartyTsipora Gabai & Jim Mavrikios
- Sukkot Film Screening the Route of the Citron by Izza GeniniIzza Genini
- Tu Beav the Little Known Jewish Summer Love FestivalRachel Biale & David Biale
- What Really Happened on Hanukkah?David Biale
- What Really Happened on Lag Ba'Omer? The Multiple Traditions of Lag Ba'OmerYael Zerubavel
- What Really Happened on Simchat Beit HaSho'eva?Daniel Boyarin
- What Really Happened on Tishah Be'Av?Peretz Wolf-Prusan
- What Really Happens on Tu Bishvat? From the Kabbalah to the KibbutzPeretz Wolf-Prusan & Rachel Biale
- Why Hank Wouldn't Play on Yom Kippur: Jews in BaseballHarry Radousky
Community Programs & Special Events
20- A Land of Milk and HoneyYoel Kahn & Debbie Harris
- AI and JudaismMolly Freeman & Ariel Mayse
- Becoming Elijah: Prophet of TransformationDaniel C. Matt
- Community Learning in Memory of Rachel BrodieMultiple Presenters
- Diaspora and Homecoming in Jewish Poetry (In Person)Dan Alter
- Diaspora and Homecoming in Jewish Poetry: A Reading and Writing ClassDan Alter
- Drop-In Book Club: Dara Horn's People Love Dead JewsDavid Waksberg
- Illuminated Medieval Passover HaggadahsYoel Kahn
- Jews and Booze — Yeah ReallyJhos Singer
- Josephus: Traitor or Hero?Daniel Boyarin
- Judaism in a Bottle: The Manischewitz StoryJhos Singer
- Living in the Presence: A Very Special Book LaunchMultiple Presenters
- Mind, Body & Soul: Maimonides' Eight ChaptersPeretz Wolf-Prusan
- Reading and Writing Grief and SurrenderMoriel Rothman-Zecher
- Shaping and Experiencing Sacred SpacesCraig Hartman, Susie Coliver & Steve Rajninger
- Shaping and Experiencing Sacred Spaces (Kol Shofar Tour)Susie Coliver & Steve Rajninger
- The Generational Rift Among American JewsDavid Waksberg
- The Heretic in the RoomMultiple Presenters
- The Middle East Crisis 1180 BceJehon Grist
- Visit Morocco — Information SessionYoel Kahn
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