I105-TS

This three-part course is an introduction to Judaism designed to equip students to engage with Jewish life and Jewish institutions. Each part can stand on its own as a separate course, and the three may ...

T500-LJ Instructors: Boyarin Starting: 01/29/2012 Location: Lehrhaus Judaica

The Talmud gave renewed relevance and meaning to Torah law. The early rabbis delved into and passionately debated that meaning, point by point, and that's what we'll do in this course. Our class is open ...

L310-NS Instructors: Grist Starting: 02/05/2012 Location: Congregation Netivot Shalom

Lamentations marks the dividing line between the end of Israelite religion and the beginning of Judaism: the destruction of Solomon’s Jerusalem Temple in 586 BCE. Filled with eloquent despair, it also affirms an enduring belief ...

L315-CBE Instructors: Grist Starting: 04/08/2012 Location: Congregation Beth El

Imagine traveling back in time to Israel's birth moment, somewhere between the late 13th-12th centuries BCE. That's what we'll do as we translate and analyze passages from Judges 4-5. Judges 4 offers a prose account ...

L100B-TS Instructors: Druch Starting: 01/11/2012 Location: Temple Sinai

This is a continuation of our introductory Prayerbook Hebrew course, designed for those who can sight-read Hebrew texts with vowels. We will focus on developing the foundation for reading comprehension and a basic Hebrew vocabulary. ...

L100C-CBE Instructors: Valfer Starting: 03/14/2012 Location: Congregation Beth El

This class is for individuals beginning to understand the Hebrew alphabet, grammar and vocabulary. The third part of a year-long Beginning Hebrew sequence, this class is open to new students provided they consult with the ...

L100B-CBE Instructors: Valfer Starting: 01/18/2012 Location: Congregation Beth El

This class is a continuation of Beginning Modern Hebrew from the fall, for individuals beginning to understand the Hebrew alphabet, grammar and vocabulary. A continuation of the Beginning Hebrew from the fall, this class is ...

L100AB-NS Instructors: Grist Starting: 02/05/2012 Location: Congregation Netivot Shalom

This class introduces students to all the basic elements of Prayerbook Hebrew: the alphabet, vowels, vocabulary, sight-reading skills, and basic grammar. You'll learn some of the key prayerbook melodies and discuss the meaning of the ...

L500-LJ Instructors: Grist Starting: 06/17/2012 Location: Lehrhaus Judaica

Ancient Egyptian was one of the first 'picture languages,' employing beautiful images to express consonants, syllables and whole words. When Biblical Hebrew was born, Egyptian writing was already 2000 years old, a language rich in ...

I100-BJ Instructors: Dardik Starting: 01/10/2012 Location: Beth Jacob Congregation

What do Jews believe? Is there life after death? What do Jewish texts teach about sex? What is the Jewish Bible? Join other curious individuals to explore Judaism through film clips. Attend one or more ...

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 ...

A300-TS Instructors: Tobin Starting: 02/22/2012 Location: Temple Sinai

Worldwide, the number of Jews is stagnant. Decimated by the Inquisition, the Holocaust, high intermarriage rates and low birth rates, Jews now comprise only 0.2% of the world's people. In focusing our attention on traditional ...

L200C-CBE Instructors: Valfer Starting: 03/14/2012 Location: Congregation Beth El

This class is for individuals who can read and write, but have little knowledge of Hebrew vocabulary and grammar. Learn to create simple sentences, verbally and in writing. The third part of a year-long Intermediate ...

L200B-CBE Instructors: Valfer Starting: 01/18/2012 Location: Congregation Beth El

This class is for individuals who can read and write, but have little knowledge of Hebrew vocabulary and grammar. Learn to create simple sentences, verbally and in writing. A continuation of the Intermediate Hebrew from ...

L200A-CBE Instructors: Grist Starting: 04/08/2012 Location: Congregation Beth El

The third semester of the introductory sequence of Biblical Hebrew grammar, this course covers the more complex features of the language commonly found in Biblical and Siddur (prayerbook) texts. After a brief review of material ...

L200C-NS Instructors: Grist Starting: 02/05/2012 Location: Congregation Netivot Shalom

This course introduces the more complex verb patterns of classical Hebrew and the irregular verb system, while building Hebrew vocabulary. Students will also translate passages from the Hebrew Bible and learn to use Hebrew research ...

I100C-TS Instructors: Adar Starting: 04/04/2012 Location: Temple Sinai

Who is a Jew? Who are the Jews? We will explore these questions by looking at Jewish life from many different angles: kashrut, Israel, the movements of Judaism (Reform, Conservative, Orthodox, Reconstructionism and Renewal), Jewish ...

I100B-TS Instructors: Adar Starting: 01/11/2012 Location: Temple Sinai

As the Jews travel through history, we have recorded our experiences in various texts: Bible, Midrash, Mishnah, Talmud, Codes, Responsa literature, and the Prayerbook, which Jacob Petuchowski, a scholar of Jewish liturgy, has described as ...

A150-TS Instructors: Spence Starting: 01/24/2012 Location: Temple Sinai

We will cover the high points of Jewish-American fiction over the last 50 years. Working our way from the 1960s through the 1990s and beyond, we’ll explore the myriad and divergent ways that writers have ...

A350-TS Instructors: Kepler Starting: 03/28/2012 Location: Temple Sinai

Children experience life quite differently than adults. We will address what it is like to grow up Jewish if you don’t look Jewish. What comments and behaviors impact a multiracial child’s sense of their Jewishness? ...

P150-TS Instructors: Steingroot Starting: 03/14/2012 Location: Temple Sinai

Christianity has been described as Jewish wine in a pagan vessel. Likewise, the classical monotheistic grapes of Jewish history and law were grafted on to hardy mythic and magical rootstock, the agricultural year as a ...

H300-LJ Instructors: Grist Starting: 06/17/2012 Location: Lehrhaus Judaica

From Narmer to Cleopatra, Pharaonic Egypt spanned 3000 years. Our course will cover every century and all the key personalities and conflicts of this extraordinary civilization. But we'll dig deeper to discover Egypt's gods and ...

L350-BJ Instructors: Chaver Starting: 01/23/2012 Location: JCC East Bay

In this course, we will read and discuss selections of Yiddish prose and poetry from the 19th and 20th centuries. The class will focus on comprehension, based not only on the lexicon and syntax of ...

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, ...

H350-CBE Instructors: Grist Starting: 03/06/2012 Location: Congregation Beth El

In January 2011, the self-immolation death of a Tunisian fruit-stand owner lit the flames of revolt throughout the Arab world. In a region where absolute rule from the top has been the norm for millennia, ...

H205-PSR Instructors: Grist Starting: 07/09/2012 Location: Pacific School of Religion at GTU

This course takes a decidedly holistic approach to understanding the scrolls in the context of their times. We'll begin with an overview of the history encompassing the scrolls, ca. 200 BCE-100 CE. From there, we'll ...

P200-TS Instructors: Adar Starting: 04/11/2012 Location: Temple Sinai

You will eat, you will be satisfied, and you will bless upon the good land that God has given you (Deut. 8:10) Eating is one of those ordinary experiences which Jewish observance makes holy. Traditionally, ...