It’s not what you think, it’s not what the Hagaddah tells us, it’s not what you remember from Sunday School or "The Ten Commandments." Profs. Ron Hendel and Robert Alter will provide an analysis of the Biblical text, both historical...
Explore why Israeli voters turned towards Benjamin Netanyahu and his coalition partners at the November election, leading to his becoming the longest-serving prime minister of Israel and parliamentary losses for left-wing and Arab parties. Rosenbaum will delve into the major...
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 2 @ 3–4:30pm American wine-making...
Part of the "Soil to Soul: Agriculture and Jewish Culture" series In partnership with JCCSF American wine-making history, immigration trends of the late 19th Century, and the rise and fall of Prohibition meet in the origin story of the most...
In partnership with KlezCalifornia Little-known themes of Jewish music are explored here via the music of Jewish weddings, the synthesis of "Gypsy" and Jewish music, the case of a 19th-century traveling Hasidic musician, an analysis of the only surviving pre-war...
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 2 @ 3–4:30pm American wine-making...
In partnership with KlezCalifornia Little-known themes of Jewish music are explored here via the music of Jewish weddings, the synthesis of "Gypsy" and Jewish music, the case of a 19th-century traveling Hasidic musician, an analysis of the only surviving pre-war...
This course begins with two famous ancient Tamudic bedroom stories with antipodal messages, but its focus is on how—1800 years later—these tales generate an astounding contemporary debate between two colors of black, two leading Haredi ultraOrthodox groups in Israel (who...
We invite you to join these community Yom Ha-Shoah Programs held by partner organizations: JFCS Holocaust Center and "Under One Tent," a program of the Contra Costa JCC. In partnership with JFCS Holocaust Center and Contra Costa Holocaust Memorial In 1943,...
This course begins with two famous ancient Tamudic bedroom stories with antipodal messages, but its focus is on how—1800 years later—these tales generate an astounding contemporary debate between two colors of black, two leading Haredi ultraOrthodox groups in Israel (who...
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...
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 2 @ 3–4:30pm American wine-making...