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Current courses by topic: The Arts

9 courses in 5 subcategories:

Cooking (1 course)

Passover Made Easy

P150-KS Instructors: Kepler Starting: 03/22/2012 Location: Congregation Kol Shofar

Not everyone who holds a seder grew up with Passover traditions. Dawn will share tasty Passover recipes, shortcuts, and tips for engaging children (and spouses) of all ages in the holiday. To register, please call ...

Literature and Writing (1 course)

Add to cart Telling Interfaith Stories: A Writing Workshop with Rebecca Spence

A200-LJ Instructors: Spence Starting: 02/02/2012 Location: Lehrhaus Judaica

As the products of interfaith families, we have unique stories to tell. Join writer Rebecca Spence for a four-week workshop in which we'll give voice to our experience. Through weekly discussions and creative writing exercises, ...

Museum Exhibit Courses (1 course)

Add to cart What Really Happened in the Exodus? A Discovery Day for Kids and Parents

D120-SH Instructors: Grist Starting: 04/15/2012 Location: Rosicrucian Egyptian Museum

Jewish tradition tells us to live Passover as if we ourselves were there with Moses over 3,000 years ago. This class gives you a chance to do just that. We will discover the land of ...

Performance (2 courses)

Add to cart How We Got Here: Reflecting On The Past 150 Years

X500-MG Instructors: Rosenbaum Starting: 02/12/2012 Location: The Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life

This event on the history of the Jews of the Bay Area, is dedicated to the memory of Seymour Fromer, the Judah L. Magnes Museum's visionary co-founder. TRIBUTE Honoring Seymour Fromer (1922-2009), co-founder of the ...

Add to cart Where We Are Heading: Voices From Our Community Imagining What's Next

X500-OFJ Instructors: Starting: 02/26/2012 Location: Oshman Family JCC

This program will be valuable to everyone who is interested and invested in the Bay Area's Jewish future. Fifteen short presentations will provide a glimpse of the future of our diverse and changing Bay Area ...

Visual Art (4 courses)

Series What Color are Jews? Exploring the Diversity of Our Community Locally and Globally

A500-TS

Local photographer Bryan Schwartz documented the global Jewish community in Scattered Among the Nations. This exhibit challenges the stereotypes of what Jews look like. But are we more comfortable with Asian or Black Jews in ...

Add to cart Creating Family Portraits: A Drawing Workshop Around Jewish Themes with Ishai Mishory

A250-SJ Instructors: Mishory Starting: 04/18/2012 Location: JCCSF

Working from both personal and found materials – family photographs, ketubahs, encyclopedias, and Jewish history books, as well as books from our personal libraries – we will amass a quantity of drawings and explore the ...

Add to cart The Art of Prophetic Justice: Bernard Zakheim in Depression-Era San Francisco

A450-OFJ Instructors: Rosenbaum Starting: 02/16/2012 Location: Oshman Family JCC

Bernard Zakheim (1896-1985), who was born and raised in Warsaw under Czarist Russia and lived in his old age on a commune near Sebastopol, California, was one of the most seminal Jewish artists of the ...

Add to cart The Art of Prophetic Justice: Bernard Zakheim in Depression-Era San Francisco

A450-PJ Instructors: Rosenbaum Starting: 05/15/2012 Location: Peninsula JCC

Bernard Zakheim (1896-1985), who was born and raised in Warsaw under Czarist Russia and lived in his old age on a commune near Sebastopol, California, was one of the most seminal Jewish artists of the ...