Join hundreds of South Peninsula's inquisitive minds for DOZENS OF INTERACTIVE CLASSES on Jewish texts, history, literature, dancing, music and film with Rabbis, artists, and educators from all walks of Jewish life!
Learning sessions taught in English, Hebrew, and Russian (scroll down for the current listings or click here to download the detailed class descriptions and teacher bios PDF.)
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Eileen Soffer at 415-751-6983 x223.
CLASSES AT A GLANCE:
Click here to download the detailed class descriptions and teacher bios.
SESSION 1: 7:30 - 8:30
Desire and Feminine Passion: A Look at Sexuality and Female Pleasure in Jewish Mysticism
With Rabbi David Booth, Congregation Kol Emeth and Carol Booth, Gideon Hausner Jewish Day School
Jewish Enlightenment - The Path of the Tzaddik
With Rabbi Paul Shleffar, Center for Contemporary Jewish Spirituality
Love and Longing for the Land: The Poetry of Rachel
With Shaina Wasserman, Congregation Beth Am and Rabbi Sarah Wolf, Congregation Beth Am
Machloket: The Virtues of Passionate Argument in the Jewish Tradition of Civil Discourse and in Jewish Conceptions of Learning
With Rabbi Sheldon Lewis, Congregation Kol Emeth and Professor Lee Shulman, Carnegie Foundation and Stanford University
On Our Way to Canaan's Land: Praise the Lord and Pass the Ammunition
With Seth Watkins, Jewish Educator and Author
Reaching Out To Wandering Jews
With Rabbi Yosef Levin, Chabad of Greater South Bay and Alan Sataloff, CEO, Oshman Family JCC
The Art of Listening: Wandering Out of Your Self
With Rabbi Avi Stewart, Jewish Study Network and Esther Kestenbaum, Management Consultant and Executive Coach
Vander/Benkshaft - Wandering/Yearning
With Yiddish Choristers: Karen Bergen and Alex Eulenberg
Wandering Into Heresy
With Ilana Goldhaber-Gordon, Jewish Educator and Nechama Tamler, Jewish Educator
Wandering Quills, Wandering Minds
With Maya Bernstein, UpStart Bay Area and Rabbi Noam Silverman, Gideon Hausner Jewish Day School
Women Who Wander...(Film Clips and Discussion)
With Shalom Rosenberg, Oshman Family JCC and Rabbi Adam Rosenwasser, Congregation Beth Am
Yemenite Jews: Art and Culture Forced Across Borders
With Sarah Levin, JIMENA and Yehuda Tassa, Yemenite Filigree Expert
IN RUSSIAN: Looking for a Way Home
With Elena Zusmanovich, Congregation Beth Am
IN HEBREW: The Wanderings of Our Forefathers
With Nitzhia Shaked, Jewish Scholar and Artist
SESSION 2: 8:45 - 9:45
A Quest for the Queen of Sheba
With Rabbi Mira Wasserman, UC Berkeley and Steve Weitzman, Stanford University
Desert Places: Finding Spiritual Renewal in Tough Times
With Rabbi Nat Ezray, Congregation Beth Jacob and Rabbi Janet Marder, Congregation Beth Am
Far from Home: A Reflection on the Roots of Jewish Wandering
With Rabbi Jennifer Clayman, Congregation Beth Am and Rabbi Laurie Matzkin, Congregation Kol Emeth
40 is the new 40: The Significance of the Number "40" in Biblical Wandering and Post-Biblical Wondering
With Ora Gittelson-David, Gideon Hausner Jewish Day School and Aviv Monarch, Gideon Hausner Jewish Day School
Lusts: Food and Sex in Judaism
With Ellen Bob, Jewish Maven and Ariella Radwin, Jewish Scholar
Men Who Lust...(Film Clips and Discussion)
With Shalom Rosenberg, Oshman Family JCC and Rabbi Adam Rosenwasser, Congregation Beth Am
The Art of Love: Marriage and Relationships in the Light of Kabbalah
With Rabbi Dov Greenberg, Rohr Chabad House at Stanford University
"Thanne longen folk to goon on pilgrimages" (Then do folk long to go on pilgrimages) -- Chaucer's Prologue to the Canterbury Tales
With Rabbi Yitzchok Feldman, Congregation Emek Beracha
The Brilliance and Lowliness of the Body: Wayward Thoughts in the Rabbinic Imagination
With Professor Charlotte Fonrobert, Stanford University and Rabbi Elisheva Salamo, Keddem Congregation
Wandering Into Lust: Dina and Joseph - A Midrashic Expose
With Rabbi Joey Felsen, Jewish Study Network and Renee Ghert-Zand, Jewish Educator
Wandering Melodies: Singing Contemporary Songs as Prayer
With Sheri Morrison, Congregation Etz Chayim and Naomi Temes, Congregation Etz Chayim
DANCE CLASS: Yiddish Dance: A Tzimmis of Cultures
With Bruce Bierman, Theater Director and Choreographer, Gilberto Melendez, Master Performer, and The Klezmakers - a klezmer band
IN RUSSIAN: Passions According to Meir Shalev
With Masha Farber, Congregation Beth Am
IN HEBREW: Haadonit Ve'harochel: A Study of the Wandering Jew
With Edna Aphek, Poet, Artist and Jewish Educator
IN HEBREW: An Imaginary Talmudic Aggadah
With Rabbi Menachem Landa, Chabad Israeli Community of the Bay Area
NEW THIS YEAR: BOOK SIGNING/SELLING BY LOCAL JEWISH AUTHORS
Keith Raffel - Smasher: A Silicon Valley Thriller
Ruthann Richter - Face to Face: Children of the AIDS Crisis in Africa
Philip Spiegel - Triumph Over Tyranny: The Heroic Campaigns that Saved 2,000,000 Soviet Jews
ALSO NEW THIS YEAR: LIVE MUSIC BY THE KLEZMAKERS!
CO-SPONSORS (list in formation):
Anti-Defamation League
Congregation Beth Am
Congregation Beth Jacob of Redwood City
Congregation Emek Beracha
Congregation Etz Chayim
Congregation Kol Emeth
Friends of the Israel Defense Forces (FIDF)
Gideon Hausner Jewish Day School
Hazon
Hillel at Stanford
Jewish Community Relations Council/Jewish Coalition for Literacy
JIMENA: Jews Indigenous to the Middle East and North Africa
Keddem Congregation
Kehillah Jewish High School
KlezCalifornia
Moldaw Family Residences
Palo Alto School for Jewish Education (PASJE)
Stanford's Taube Center for Jewish Studies
The Israel Center of the SF-based Jewish Community Federation
The Jewish Chaplaincy at Stanford University Medical Center
The Jewish Partisan Educational Foundation
The Feast is made possible, in part, thanks to the Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco, the Peninsula, Marin and Sonoma Counties.
