In partnership with Osher Marin JCC This inquiry into violence and non-violence in Jewish tradition employs Gandhi’s model of satyagraha (“a determined but nonviolent resistance to evil”) as a benchmark for non-violent resistance. How have concepts of violence and non-violence...
In partnership with KlezCalifornia and the Jewish Community Library In the 1920s and ’30s, only New York rivaled Warsaw as a capital of Jewish cosmopolitanism. This multimedia presentation will demonstrate the vitality of a community known more for how they died...
In partnership with Taube Philanthropies, The Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life and UC Berkeley Center for Jewish Studies This reception and program features Dr. Natalia Romik, 2022 Dan David Prize Laureate, scholar, curator, Holocaust researcher, and architect in conversation...
In partnership with Klez California, the East Bay International Jewish Film Festival, and Temple Isaiah This series will examine different aspects of "Fiddler on the Roof," from its origin in the Sholom Aleichem Tevye Stories, to the figure of the...
In partnership with JFCS-East Bay What are the scope, characteristics, and needs of those facing poverty and economic insecurity in the Bay Area Jewish community? What is our East Bay Jewish community doing to meet those needs? February 8, 7-8:30...
We're pleased to invite you to a Partnership Program with the Taube Center for Jewish Life and Culture in Warsaw. The Hasidic movement was born in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth during the 18th century. Now, more than two hundred and fifty years old, it continues to fascinate...
In partnership with The New Israel Fund The series will feature several projects that create bridges of collaboration and peace-building between Israelis and Palestinians, as well as neighboring Jordan. SESSION 1: Medicine (Project Rozana) and Technology (Tech2Peace) with Kenneth Bob,...
In partnership with Temple Sinai, Oakland Have you ever walked through a museum, stopped at a painting, and wondered what was going on in the artist’s mind? If so, you might be inspired to write ekphrastic poetry, which is poetry...
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...
Eda Pell, our stalwart supporter and most generous donor, sponsors an annual lecture at UC Berkeley: we encourage you to attend. In 2019, the shooter of the Poway synagogue near San Diego cited the story of Simon of Trent, a...
Your Shabbat-Prep Practice The Eight Chapters, as it has come to be known, was called by Maimonides, “An Introduction to Avot." It was written sometime between 1158 and 1165, much of it while living as a refugee in Fez, Morocco,...
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...
