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Yosef Rosen: The Tree of Life: Making Kabbalistic Diagrams (Virtual on Zoom)

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Learn about the aesthetic-theology of kabbalistic diagrams—full of trees, circles, spirals, lines, and letters—and use these as models to map your own relation to that which is essential but intangible (what might be called spirit, soul, or the divine). Our...

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Eddy Portnoy: Am Yisrael High: Jews and Cannabis (Virtual on Zoom)

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In Partnership with Congregation Beth El, Berkeley Long before people like Abbie Hoffman and Allen Ginsberg began protesting in favor of the legalization of marijuana, this popular plant had been a part of Jewish life for millenia. From the Bible...

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Chana Kronfeld: The Land as Woman: The Afterlife of a Poetic Metaphor in Women’s Modern Hebrew Poetry (Zoom only)

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The Land-as-Woman is one of the most deeply rooted metaphorical systems in Jewish as well as Western and Middle-Eastern cultures, used to support the discourses of colonialism and nationalism throughout history. It has its origins in the Hebrew Bible. In...

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Chana Kronfeld: The Land as Woman: The Afterlife of a Poetic Metaphor in Women’s Modern Hebrew Poetry (Zoom only)

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The Land-as-Woman is one of the most deeply rooted metaphorical systems in Jewish as well as Western and Middle-Eastern cultures, used to support the discourses of colonialism and nationalism throughout history. It has its origins in the Hebrew Bible. In...

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Bonnie Weiss: Word Wizards:  Broadway’s Legendary Jewish Lyricists (Virtual on Zoom)

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Explore the cultural, social, and economic forces that led to a remarkable phenomenon:  although the Jewish population in America has rarely exceeded 2%, over 80% of Broadway and Tin Pan Alley songwriters have been Jewish. How are Jewish religion and...

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Abortion through Multiple Lenses (Virtual on Zoom)

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The abortion debate has just reached fever pitch following the leak of the Supreme Court majority opinion suggesting the demise of Roe vs. Wade. If it is overturned, what other personal freedoms are already/will be in danger: transgender health services,...

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Chana Kronfeld: The Land as Woman: The Afterlife of a Poetic Metaphor in Women’s Modern Hebrew Poetry (Zoom only)

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The Land-as-Woman is one of the most deeply rooted metaphorical systems in Jewish as well as Western and Middle-Eastern cultures, used to support the discourses of colonialism and nationalism throughout history. It has its origins in the Hebrew Bible. In...

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We Were Here: HIV-AIDS, the Bay Area and the Jewish Community (Virtual on Zoom)

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Program Video: https://youtu.be/FEzwnh37xBY In partnership with The East Bay International Jewish Film Festival, Congregation Sha’ar Zahav, and A Wider Bridge On the 35th anniversary of the launching of the AIDS Quilt and Names Project, the quilt’s largest display ever will...

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Divinity and Infinity: Exploring the Infinite in Mathematics and Judaism

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Mathematicians, theologians, and even children ponder the inspiring and surprising nature of the infinite. Dr. Lesser will explore—in a lively, interactive way—how math concepts can help illuminate some big ideas in Judaism, including the value of life, the value of...

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Penny Wolin—Descendants of Light: American Photographers of Jewish Ancestry (Virtual on Zoom)

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“It is not a coincidence,” says photographer Penny Wolin “that Jews are attracted to the alchemy of photography and photography has found its storytellers in Jews.” Over six years, Wolin had in-person encounters with 70 leading American Jewish photographers, including Robert...

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Ken Blady: Yiddish 2 – Lernen Yiddish (Virtual on Zoom)

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In partnership with KlezCalifornia This is a course for those who are serious about lernen Yidish and have mastered some of the more elementary words and phrases. For those who want to converse with bube in zayde (grandma and grandpa)...

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Ken Blady: Yiddish from Scratch (Virtual on Zoom)

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In partnership with KlezCalifornia Learn this rich and colorful language in a relaxed, irreverent and heimishe atmosphere. Emphasis will be placed on interactive conversation among students (almost) entirely in Yiddish in order to develop the ability to form sentences for...

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