Judaism

Shir Ha Shirim

The Song of Songs Minyan comes together for a Kabbalat Shabbat Service for egalitarian Jewish spiritual practice. Uniting the musical liturgy of Sephardic, Mizrachi & Ashkenazi traditions, the service focuses on the rich content of Jewish sacred music, poetry & prayer from around the world.

2nd Friday of the month; 7:30pm; November 10, December 8.
FREE (donation suggested)

Shabbat Morning Services Aquarian Minyan

Monthly series of Shabbat morning services at the JCCEB. The Minyan is known for its profound, creative High Holy Days services which are co-created by Minyan members and friends. These Shabbat services will provide a year-round opportunity to experience and participate in a musical, celebratory worship experience presented in the spirit of “renewing the old and making holy the new.” Services will be followed by a vegetarian potluck lunch. Call Shoshana at 510-848-1343 to volunteer to help with service leadership, set up, or clean up.

ON-GOING, Last Saturday of the month, October 28, November 25, December 30, 10am-12:30pm

• For more information call 510-655-8530 or www.aquarianminyan.org

Modern Hebrew Recharge: Beginning and Intermediateand Prayerbook Hebrew Recharge

Beginning level review for Modern Hebrew (10am-1pm). Intermediate level (2-5pm) will review more complex conversation, grammar and additional vocabulary.
Co-sponsored with Lehrhaus Judaica.

Sunday,September 17, 10:00am or 2:00pm
Fee: $20 (includes light dairy lunch).
Held at Lehrhaus Judaica, 2736 Bancroft Way, Berkeley.

• For more information call 510-845-6420 or www.lehrhaus.org

Modern Hebrew- Level A with Ilan Vitemberg

For individuals with little or no knowledge of the Hebrew alphabet, grammar or vocabulary. Required text: Hebrew from Scratch available at the first class for $35. Ilan Vitemberg is the director of the Diller Teen Fellows program and a Teen Program Consultant at the Bureau of Jewish Education in San Francisco.
Co-sponsored with Lehrhaus Judaica.

Tuesdays, October 17 - December 12, 8:15pm
Fee: $110 public; $90 members of Alameda co-sponsors and full time students; $70 Learning for Life (age 65+)

• For more information call 510-845-6420 or www.lehrhaus.org

Modern Hebrew- Level C with Ilan Vitemberg

For individuals with some knowledge of Hebrew vocabulary and grammar. Required text: Hebrew from Scratch available at the first class for $35. Ilan Vitemberg is the director of the Diller Teen Fellows program and a Teen Program Consultant at the Bureau of Jewish Education in San Francisco.
Co-sponsored with Lehrhaus Judaica.

Tuesdays, October 17 - December 12, 6:45pm
Fee: $110 public; $90 members of Alameda co-sponsors and full time students; $70 Learning for Life (age 65+)

• For more information call 510-845-6420 or www.lehrhaus.org

Jewish Communities in Exotic Places with Ken Blady

Imagine Jewish communities where grasshoppers are kosher, where some Jews wander the land as Bedouin, live in caves, or are merchants in the ostrich feather trade. Discover the Romaniot, the Mizrachim and other Jewish groups that don’t fit into the Ashkenazi or Sephardi molds including the Ethiopian ‘Beta Israel’ community and Tadjiki Jews of Central Asia. Ken Blady is Educator, Yiddish Translator and Eastern European Historian.
Co-sponsored with Lehrhaus Judaica.

Wednesdays, October 18 - November 8, 7:30pm
Fee: $45 public, $35 members of Alameda co-sponsors; $25 Learning for Life (age 65+)

• For more information call 510-845-6420 or www.lehrhaus.org

Splendor of Sephorad with Leah Shelleda

Sepharad was a sublime culture created by Jews, Muslims and Christians. Their accomplishments in science, literature and philosophy became the basis for the European Renaissance. Through lecture, discussion, music and images explore how three religions worked and lived together, the Jewish courtier-rabbis, poets, philosophers and statesmen, the role art, music and architecture played and what we can learn from the Sephardim. Leah Shelleda is a cultural historian and Professor Emerita of Humanities and Philosophy at the College of Marin.
Co-sponsored with Lehrhaus Judaica.

Thursdays, October 19 - November 16, 7:30pm
Fee: $55 public, $45 members of Alameda co-sponsors.

• For more information call 510-845-6420 or www.lehrhaus.org

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