The Bay Area Community Talmud Circle is a growing, dynamic and welcoming community of adult participants engaged in modern Talmud study and active conversation. While the majority of participants are continuing students, anyone may join! No prior experience with Talmud Study...
The Bay Area Community Talmud Circle is a growing, dynamic and welcoming community of adult participants engaged in modern Talmud study and active conversation. While the majority of participants are continuing students, anyone may join! No prior experience with Talmud Study...
This program will consider a number of texts composed by Jews dwelling under imperial rule in antiquity (the Persian, Greek, and Roman empires) in order to understand how the substantial humor in those texts reflects the experience and attitudes of...
This course starts from the beginning and covers the following: Covers approximately chapters 8-13 of Prayerbook Hebrew the Easy Way Increases vocabulary to 150+ words Builds comprehension of basic Prayerbook passages and their melodies Explores topics in the history of...
A partnership program of Urban Adamah and New Lehrhaus, and with Jewish Food Society Click the session titles below to reach the individual registration pages. SESSION 1: Jhos Singer—Judaism in a Bottle: The Manischewitz Story (Zoom only) Sunday, April 9 @ 3–4:30pm American wine-making...
Completes instructor text on the verb patterns and irregular verbs Covers three or more passages from The First Hebrew Reader Introduces the art and science of Biblical text translation and analysis Continues to explore aspects of the Hebrew Bible and...
In our fall semester, our class explored the tragic last days of the Kingdom of Judah in 586 BCE and its aftermath in texts from II Kings and Lamentations. To close the academic year, we’ll celebrate the restoration of the...