February 2019
Sunday Morning Seminar – The Jewish Founding Father: Alexander Hamilton’s Hidden Life
The Jewish Founding Father: Alexander Hamilton’s Hidden Life The Jewish Founding Father: Alexander Hamilton’s Hidden Life; Professor Porwancher will present fresh evidence that Alexander Hamilton was, in fact, born Jewish and explore Hamilton's ongoing relationships with Jews throughout his lifetime. Although Hamilton cast off any Jewish identity in his adulthood in the United States, he never forgot his origins. He emerged as a singular champion of American Jewry against the forces of anti-Semitism.
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Havdalah and a Movie Series
Nov 3 - GI Jews - GI JEWS: JEWISH AMERICANS IN WORLD WAR II tells the story of the 550,000 Jewish Americans who fought in World War II. In their own words, veterans both famous and unknown bring their war experiences to life: how they fought for their nation and their people, struggled with anti-Semitism within their ranks, and emerged transformed. Jan 5 - Epilogue - Based on archive material, the film reveals the final years of Israel's founder, David Ben-Gurion. Excluded…
Find out more »Monday Night Lectures with Rabbi Weinberg – Spring Series
Sefer Ha-Aggadah: Legends for the Talmud and Midrash First published in 1908 Odessa, in Hebrew, by Hayyim Nahman Bialik and Yehoshua Hana Ravnitzky, this masterful compendium of hundreds of texts from Rabbinic literature, arranged thematically, was translated into English in 1992 by Reform Rabbi William G. Braude. The selected texts reflect the theological and sociological concerns of the ancient rabbis including: God, good and evil, the role of Israel and the nations, the world of nature, healing, the lives of…
Find out more »Monday Night Lectures with Rabbi Weinberg – Spring Series
Sefer Ha-Aggadah: Legends for the Talmud and Midrash First published in 1908 Odessa, in Hebrew, by Hayyim Nahman Bialik and Yehoshua Hana Ravnitzky, this masterful compendium of hundreds of texts from Rabbinic literature, arranged thematically, was translated into English in 1992 by Reform Rabbi William G. Braude. The selected texts reflect the theological and sociological concerns of the ancient rabbis including: God, good and evil, the role of Israel and the nations, the world of nature, healing, the lives of…
Find out more »Monday Night Lectures with Rabbi Weinberg – Spring Series
Sefer Ha-Aggadah: Legends for the Talmud and Midrash First published in 1908 Odessa, in Hebrew, by Hayyim Nahman Bialik and Yehoshua Hana Ravnitzky, this masterful compendium of hundreds of texts from Rabbinic literature, arranged thematically, was translated into English in 1992 by Reform Rabbi William G. Braude. The selected texts reflect the theological and sociological concerns of the ancient rabbis including: God, good and evil, the role of Israel and the nations, the world of nature, healing, the lives of…
Find out more »April 2019
Monday Night Lectures with Rabbi Weinberg – Spring Series
Sefer Ha-Aggadah: Legends for the Talmud and Midrash First published in 1908 Odessa, in Hebrew, by Hayyim Nahman Bialik and Yehoshua Hana Ravnitzky, this masterful compendium of hundreds of texts from Rabbinic literature, arranged thematically, was translated into English in 1992 by Reform Rabbi William G. Braude. The selected texts reflect the theological and sociological concerns of the ancient rabbis including: God, good and evil, the role of Israel and the nations, the world of nature, healing, the lives of…
Find out more »Monday Night Lectures with Rabbi Weinberg – Spring Series
Sefer Ha-Aggadah: Legends for the Talmud and Midrash First published in 1908 Odessa, in Hebrew, by Hayyim Nahman Bialik and Yehoshua Hana Ravnitzky, this masterful compendium of hundreds of texts from Rabbinic literature, arranged thematically, was translated into English in 1992 by Reform Rabbi William G. Braude. The selected texts reflect the theological and sociological concerns of the ancient rabbis including: God, good and evil, the role of Israel and the nations, the world of nature, healing, the lives of…
Find out more »May 2019
Sunday Morning Seminar
Meet the Author: Michael Lukas The Last Watchman of Old Cairo: Joseph, a literature student at Berkeley, is the son of a Jewish mother and a Muslim father. One day, a mysterious package arrives on his doorstep, pulling him into a mesmerizing adventure to uncover the tangled history that binds the two sides of his family. For generations, the men of the al-Raqb family have served as watchmen of the storied Ibn Ezra Synagogue in Old Cairo, built at the…
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