Community Bulletin

  Sunday, Sept. 27th Concert at Kehilla Community Synagogue, Piedmont 3:30 pm A second performance of our 100th Annual Concert. Featuring a program of songs chosen from our many exuberant…

Organizer: UC Berkeley Center for Jewish Studies Date and Time: Tuesday, October 6 @ 5:00-6:30pm Location: 3335 Dwinelle Hall, UC Berkeley campus In her new book, Zionism in Translation: Encounters in the German-Hebrew Archive, Na’ama Rokem investigates written exchanges by a range of literary twentieth century authors, including Hannah Arendt, Gershom Scholem, Yehuda Amichai, Ludwig…

Organizer: UC Berkeley Center for Jewish Studies Date and Time: Wednesday, October 7 @ 4:00-5:30pm Location: 3335 Dwinelle Hall, UC Berkeley campus The biblical story of the ten plagues, the series of disasters sent against Pharaoh and the Egyptian in order to compel them to free the Israelites, introduced into collective imagination a connection between…

KlezCalYidFest, the annual annual klezmer and Yiddish culture festival in Berkeley, California, is October 9-11th, 2026, with a weekend of concerts, workshops, dancing, and more, with local and international artists from the klezmer and contemporary Yiddish culture scene, including the Strauss/Warshauer duo, Levyosn, Veretski Pass, Avia Moore, and Der Goylem.

Organizers: UC Berkeley Center for Jewish Studies, Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life Date and Time: Thursday, October 22, from 5:00-7:00 p.m. Location: Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life, 2121 Allston Way, Berkeley, CA Annual Diller Lecture The 1948 Arab-Israeli War attracted attention from the highest levels of international society, state governments, transnational…

At a moment when questions of Jewish power, vulnerability, belonging and responsibility are impossible to avoid, the Z3 Conference creates a Jewish public square where we don't just discuss them, we claim them. We'll encounter competing perspectives, argue through hard choices, and decide together what we're responsible for building next. Come be part of a…