"Lost & Found" BJE's 4th Annual YOUNG ADULT
Feast of Jewish Learning
Sunday, March 29, 2009
2 - 7 pm
at JCHS (new location!)
1835 Ellis Street in San Francisco
Please take a moment to RSVP.
Join the Feast(ivities) on Facebook.
Everyone is Welcome and Everything is FREE
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The Complete BJE Feast Schedule!
Registration/Welcome: 2:00 pm
Session One: 2:30 - 3:45 pm
Session Two: 4:00 - 5:15 pm
Session Three: 5:30 - 6:45 pm
Make Noise in the Library Afterparty: 6:45 - 8pm
DAY OF INSTRUCTIONS & DIRECTIONS (Look out for blue balloons!):
Pedestrians: enter at 1835 Ellis Street, between Scott and Pierce. Look out for blue balloons! Buzz intercom and say "Feast of Jewish Learning."
Drivers: enter enclosed parking on Pierce Street, between Eddy and Ellis. Look out for blue balloons! Buzz intercom and say "Feast of Jewish Learning."
Find Yourself Here - A Self-realization Workshop: Rabbi Joshua Marder, Jewish Study Network
How To Change The World: What Moses and Obama Have In Common: Toby Rubin & Maya Bernstein, UpStart Bay Area
Is "Eco-" the New Kosher? Rabbi Dorothy Richman, UC Berkeley
Israel's Contradictions Through the Lens of Hip-hop, Rap, and Rock Music: Gabe Salgado, Timeless Cities
Life and Death, Love and Loss, War and Peace: The Poetry of Yehudah Amichai: Rabbi Larry Raphael, Congregation Sherith Israel
Lost, and Now Found, Jews of Uganda: Dr. Marc Dollinger, SF State University
Lost Origins of Judaism and Christianity: Dr. Henry Shreibman, Reconstructionist Rabbinical College
Searching for Perfection...with Maimonides: Joshua Klein, Jewish Educator
YOGA CLASS: Finding Our Balance: Yoga and the Sacred Sephirot: Julie Emden, Yoga Instructor
4:00 - 5:15 pm: SESSION TWO:
Finders Keepers? A Talmudic Treasure Hunt: Rabbi Peretz Muchkin, Chabad of North Beach
How To Change The World: What Moses and Obama Have In Common: Toby Rubin & Maya Bernstein, UpStart Bay Area
Is Being Good-looking a Blessing or a Curse?: What Flight of the Conchords Teaches Us: Rabbi Joshua Strulowitz, Congregation Adath Israel
Israeli Family Through the Eyes of Young Israeli Filmmakers: Shevi Rosenfeld, Filmmaker
Jewish Counterculture: Freedom Riders or Fundamentalists? Dr. Ari Y Kelman, UC Davis
Joy in the Face of Anxiety - a Kabbalah Perspective: Rabbi Ahron Hecht, Richmond Torah Center
Lost, Found, and Scratchy: What Old Jewish Records Tell Us: Howard Freedman, Jewish Community Library
One People, Two Worlds: An Exploration of Chabad and Reform Views: Rabbi Jonathan Jaffe, Congregation Emanu-El & Rabbi Gedalia Potash, Chabad of Noe Valley
Lost, and Now Found, Jews of Uganda: Dr. Marc Dollinger, SF State University
Sexual Healing or Sexual Scarring? Dr. Henry Shreibman, Reconstructionist Rabbinical College
5:30 - 6:45 pm: SESSION THREE:
Are There Jewish Gurus? Rabbi Ahron Hecht, Richmond Torah Center
Hidden in Plain Sight: The Troubling History of Jews in Blackface: Dr. Ari Y Kelman, UC Davis
Lost in Violence - A Biblical Perspective: Rabbi David Kasher, UC Berkeley
"New" Jews: What Have We Lost? Whom Have We Found? Rabbi Sydney Mintz, Congregation Emanu-El
One People, Two Worlds: An Exploration of Chabad and Reform Views: Rabbi Jonathan Jaffe, Congregation Emanu-El & Rabbi Gedalia Potash, Chabad of Noe Valley
Righteous Women of the Exodus: Unsung Heroes: Rabbi Chai Levy, Congregation Kol Shofar
Soul Mates: Is There a B'shert for Me? Judith Gottesman, MSW, Jewish Educator and Matchmaker
COOKING CLASS: Creating Gourmet Passover dishes: Rebecca Ets-Hokin, Chef Extraordinaire
DANCE CLASS: Mad Hot Klezmer and Hasidic Dance - Old school to Hip Hop: Bruce Bierman, Jewish Dance Theater
The BJE Feast is co-sponsored by:
510 - Berkeley Hillel's Grad and Young Professionals Group | American Jewish World Service | Avodah | Bay Area Tribe | BayJews.org | Be'chol Lashon (In Every Tongue) | Birthright Israel NEXT Bay Area | BJE Jewish Community Library | Chabad of Noe Valley | Chabad of North Beach | Congregation Adath Israel | Congregation Netivot Shalom Young Adults Havurah | Congregation Sha'ar Zahav | Congregation Sherith Israel | Contemporary Jewish Museum | Eco Jews of the Bay | Jewish Film Festival | Jewish Mosaic | KlezCalifornia | Lehrhaus Judaica | Moishe House SF | Oy Bay! | Progressive Jewish Alliance | Reconstructionist Rabbinical College | San Francisco Hillel | Second Saturday at the Cellar | The Hub at the JCCSF | Tzavta of the Israel Center of the Jewish Community Federation | UpStart Bay Area | Young Adult Community of Congregation Emanu-El | Young Adult Division (YAD) of the Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco, the Peninsula, Marin, and Sonoma Counties | list in formation...
NEW LOCATION! at JCHS (Jewish Community High School of the Bay). We're going back to school - old school. But without the principal and all the rules.
FREE garage parking!
EVERYONE (21-40ish) IS WELCOME and EVERYTHING IS FREE.
Please take a moment to RSVP.
Join the Feast(ivities) on Facebook.
We mean it! From secular to orthodox, talmud scholar to complete beginner - come and bring all your friends.
In an effort to help save the environment, we are not printing flyers this year...so please forward all the details to your knowledge-seeking friends. Thanks!
