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BJE's 5th Annual YOUNG ADULT Feast of Jewish Learning:
WANDER/LUST

SUNDAY, MARCH 7, 2010

FEAST SCHEDULE:
Registration: 11:00 am
Session I: 11:30 - 12:45
LUNCH: 12:45 - 1:25
Session II: 1:30 - 2:45
Session III: 3:00 - 4:15

at JCCSF: 3200 California Street in San Francisco

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Join the Feastivities on Facebook.

Scroll down for the complete line-up.

Click here to download the detailed description of classes and teacher bios.

Questions? Contact Mariana Roytman Schiffner.


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Everyone (21-40ish) is welcome and everything is FREE!

Join hundreds of inquiring minds for these interactive workshops on Jewish texts, film, history, spirituality, mysticism, yoga, cooking, lust and love:

Session I: 11:30 - 12:45 pm

  • Get Lost: Self-Imposed Exile and the Journey to Self with Shayna Korb, Institute of Transpersonal Psychology

  • Innovation and Tradition: Is There Anything New Under the Sun? with Maya Bernstein, UpStart Bay Area

  • Our Prophets, Ourselves: Reclaiming our Radical Roots with Zachary Lazarus, Progressive Jewish Alliance

  • Politics on the Roof: Of Fiddlers, Photographs, Film and Federations with Dr. Ari Y. Kelman, UC Davis

  • Wanderlust with a camera: Screening and discussion with Sam Ball, Citizen Film

  • Who needs love when there's always lust? Judaism's Take on Love with Rabbi Ahron Hecht, Richmond Torah Center

  • COOKING CLASS: Passover Dishes from Around the World with Rebecca Ets-Hokin, CCP, Chef Extraordinaire

  • YOGA: Moving Inspiration with Dr. Deena Aranoff, Graduate Theological Union (GTU)
Session II: 1:30 - 2:45 pm

  • Creating the Sacred in Intimacy with Rabbi Ahron Hecht, Richmond Torah Center

  • Death Wanders - Rabbinic Reflections on Encounters with the Other Side with Rabbi Yonatan Cohen, Congregation Beth Israel

  • Does Your Mind Wander During the Passover Seder? A Step by Step Guide to a More Meaningful Seder with Rabbi Josh Marder, Jewish Study Network

  • Noach: On the Boat and Off the Wagon with Jhos Singer, Coastside Jewish Community

  • Odyssey or Stuck in the Mud: The Thicket is the Ticket with Rabbi Micah Hyman, Congregation Beth Sholom

  • The Queen of Sheba and the Seductions of Wisdom with Dr. Steve Weitzman, Stanford University and Rabbi Mira Wasserman, UC Berkeley

  • Rabbini-care: Exploring the Jewish health care system with Rabbi Josh Strulowitz, Congregation Adath Israel

  • Wandering Tongue: Following the Journey of Yiddish with Howard Freedman, BJE Jewish Community Library

  • COOKING CLASS: Passover Dishes from Around the World with Rebecca Ets-Hokin, CCP, Chef Extraordinaire
Session III: 3:00 - 4:15 pm

  • Adultery in the Palace: A Talmudic Approach to David and Batsheva with Dalia Davis, Merkavah Women's Torah Institute

  • Israeli American cultural differences as reflected in HBO's In Treatment and Israel's B'Tipul with Gal Szekely, MFT

  • The Kindness of Strangers: Hospitality and Homicide in the Hebrew Bible with Dr. David Henkin, UC Berkeley

  • Love and Longing, Journey and Union: Movement within the God of the Kabbalists with Dr. Deena Aranoff, Graduate Theological Union (GTU)

  • Lust Lost: Dysfunctional Marriage in the Talmud with Frayda Gonshor, Bay Area Learning Initiative

  • Nostalgia: Lusting After the Past or Feeding the Soul? With Evan Wolkenstein, Jewish Community High School of the Bay

  • Reading the Talmud at Moyshe's Coney Island Sideshow: Ancient Narrative and Modern Jewishness with Eli Rosenblatt, UC Berkeley and GTU

  • Sex Tales from the Road with Rabbi David Kasher, UC Berkeley

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Co-sponsored by:
    79ers of Jewish Family and Children's Services
    AJWS-AVODAH Partnership
    Baraban.Com Russian San Francisco
    Bay Area Learning Initiative
    Bay Area Tribe
    Be'chol Lashon (In Every Tongue), A Global Jewish Community
    Berkeley Hillel: 510 - Jewish programming for grads and young professionals
    Birthright Israel NEXT Bay Area
    BJE Jewish Community Library
    Congregation Beth Sholom
    Congregation Sha'ar Zahav
    Contemporary Jewish Museum (CJM)
    Hazon
    Jewish Milestones
    Jewish Mosaic
    JIMENA - Jews Indigenous to the Middle East and North Africa
    Lehrhaus Judaica
    LGBT Alliance of the SF-based Jewish Community Federation
    Merkavah Torah Institute
    Mitzvah on the Rocks
    North Beach Chabad
    Oshman Family JCC
    Progressive Jewish Alliance (PJA)
    Richmond Torah Center Chabad
    San Francisco Hillel Grads
    Second Saturday at the Cellar
    The Hub of the JCCSF
    Tzavta of the SF-based Jewish Community Federation
    UpStart Bay Area
    Wilderness Torah
    YAD of the SF-based Jewish Community Federation
    Young Adult Community at Congregation Emanu-El
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