I100-TS
This three-part course is designed to equip students to engage with Jewish life and Jewish institutions. The course will follow the course of the Jewish year, preparing students for the holidays shortly before they occur. ...
H100-TS Instructors: Mates-Muchin Starting: 10/24/2010 Location: Temple Sinai
What are the trends? How are we changing? Where are we going? What makes this century unique? Join us to explore the answers to these questions and more as we seek out a better understanding ...
H200-TS Instructors: Chester Starting: 09/14/2010 Location: Temple Sinai
From biblical times to modern day, we will survey the history of Jews and Judaism throughout the world. Ancient- Rabbi Steven Chester: September 14 - October 26 Medieval- Rabbi Andrea Berlin: November 2 - January ...
I100-NS Instructors: Creditor Starting: 10/07/2010 Location: Congregation Netivot Shalom
Enjoy a free, three session class on the modern Jewish perspective on spirituality, ethics and community. This class is designed to give you a foundational understanding of Judaism in a fun, friendly environment. Everyone is ...
L310-CBI Instructors: Grist Starting: 10/03/2010 Location: Congregation Beth Israel
Long before Isaiah, Ezekiel and Jeremiah, there was Elijah. This fascinating figure from the 9th century BCE expresses the essence of the prophetic role that all his successors will follow: opposing corrupt power, social justice, ...
L300-CBE Instructors: Pearlson Starting: 10/28/2010 Location: Congregation Beth El
This class is for individuals with some knowledge of Hebrew vocabulary and grammar. Students learn to read and understand short texts, improve their listening comprehension, expand their vocabulary and increase their speaking ability.
L100-CBE Instructors: Pearlson Starting: 10/27/2010 Location: Congregation Beth El
This class is for individuals with little or no knowledge of the Hebrew alphabet, grammar or vocabulary. Required text: Hebrew from Scratch, available at Afikomen Judaica. Please purchase the book before the first session.
L100A-CBI Instructors: Grist Starting: 10/03/2010 Location: Congregation Beth Israel
Discover the essentials of Prayerbook Hebrew, starting with the alphabet, vowels, sight reading and basic grammar, all in a friendly, supportive environment. We'll also learn some of the key Prayerbook melodies, and discuss the meaning ...
P200-TS Instructors: Birnberg Starting: 10/13/2010 Location: Temple Sinai
This class will be experiential in nature, focusing on what Martin Buber has to teach us about having I-Thou relationships. We will learn from Buber, as if he were our Hassidic Rebbe, the practice of ...
T200-NS Instructors: Newmark Starting: 10/07/2010 Location: Congregation Netivot Shalom
This class is designed to introduce students to the mussar (ethics) classic The Path of the Just. Written by the renegade Rabbi Moshe Chaim Luzatto ('The Ramchal') and first published in the Netherlands in 1740, ...
P150-TS Instructors: Kepler Starting: 10/17/2010 Location: Temple Sinai
Children move through a variety of developmental stages. How can we support their identity development and family attachment in age appropriate ways? Children in interfaith families are integrating multiple traditions and family heritages, we will ...
D100-TS Instructors: Grist Starting: 12/05/2010 Location: Temple Sinai
This course will introduce you to the aleph-bet, vowels, and essential pronunciation and sight-reading skills. This is a perfect beginning for studies that will lead to reading comprehension. Continue your studies with Prayerbook Hebrew on ...
P200-CBE Instructors: Kepler Starting: 10/06/2010 Location: Congregation Beth El
Explore the complexities of interfaith relationships in a warm and supportive atmosphere. Join us to discuss key issues that come up for interfaith couples: clarifying values, good communication, relationships with family and friends, finding community, ...
L200-CBE Instructors: Pearlson Starting: 10/27/2010 Location: Congregation Beth El
This class is for individuals who can read and write, but have little or no knowledge of Hebrew vocabulary and grammar. Learn to create simple sentences, verbally and in writing. Required text: Hebrew from Scratch, ...
L200B-CBI Instructors: Grist Starting: 10/03/2010 Location: Congregation Beth Israel
The fourth semester of the introductory sequence of Biblical Hebrew grammar, this course covers the more complex features of the language, and introduces students to the process of translating and analyzing texts found in the ...
I100A-TS Instructors: Adar Starting: 10/20/2010 Location: Temple Sinai
Jews express our faith more by “doing” than by “believing.” Jewish lifecycle celebrations and rituals express the relationship of the Jew to the world, and Jewish understandings of the Holy. This course will explore Jewish ...
I100B-CBE Instructors: Adar Starting: 01/19/2011 Location: Congregation Beth El
As the Jews travel through history, we have recorded our experiences in various texts: Bible, Midrash, Mishnah, Talmud, Codes, Responsa literature, and the Prayer Book, which Jacob Petuchowski, a scholar of Jewish liturgy, has described ...
I100C-CBE Instructors: Adar Starting: 03/23/2011 Location: Congregation Beth El
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, Renewal), Jewish institutions ...
T200-CBE Instructors: Caine Starting: 10/13/2010 Location: Congregation Beth El
Midrash describes a wildly creative way of interpreting sacred text that is unique to Judaism. Midrash fills in the "gaps" in the Biblical text, re-imagines its stories, and elaborates the psychology of its characters. In ...
H300-TS Instructors: Rosenbaum Starting: 11/09/2010 Location: Temple Sinai
Out on a Ledge is the compelling memoir of Eva Libitzky, co-authored by award-winning historian Fred Rosenbaum. It tells the rarely examined story of a Hasidic girl in the Holocaust, a dutiful daughter who survived ...
T250-NS Instructors: Shaked Starting: 10/18/2010 Location: Congregation Netivot Shalom
"MiMoshe leMoshe, lo kam k'Moshe,"* says the famous quote about Rambam. In this course we will start with a short introduction of Rambam's life and philosophy followed by a study of selections of halakhot from ...
L350-BJ Instructors: Chaver Starting: 10/04/2010 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 ...
H300-CBE Instructors: Grist Starting: 10/21/2010 Location: Congregation Beth El
This series offers a Jewish perspective on winemaking and wine culture, as well as the uniquely Jewish spiritual and ritual values associated with wine. In our first session, we'll explore the origins of wine culture ...