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SUMMARY:The B'Mitzvah Way Open House: Come experience the program first hand!
DESCRIPTION:The JCC East Bay’s B’Mitzvah Way program is hosting an open house on August 30. Join this informational session for adults and teens to learn more about the program\, meet the Rabbi\, and ask questions! Teens will have the opportunity to experience the B’Mitzvah Way with a hands on project\, and light refreshments will be served! Register for the open house here.
URL:https://jcceastbay.org/events/the-bmitzvah-way-open-house-come-experience-the-program-first-hand/2026-08-30/
LOCATION:JCC East Bay\, 1414 Walnut Street\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94709\, United States
CATEGORIES:Jewish Life,Youth & Teens
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260902T103000
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SUMMARY:Yiddish Conversation
DESCRIPTION:The JCC East Bay drop-in Yiddish Conversation group is a weekly gathering where people read Yiddish stories out loud\, share laughs\, and keep the Yiddish language alive. All ages and all levels of experience are welcome to schmooze. \nThe group meets weekly on Wednesdays at 10:30 a.m. beginning September 2. No reservations are required. \nJoin us at the new East Bay Jewish Community Campus in Rockridge. Please enter through the main Campus gate on Chabot Road.
URL:https://jcceastbay.org/events/yiddish-conversation-2/2026-09-02/
LOCATION:East Bay Jewish Community Campus\, 5957 Chabot Road\, Oakland\, CA\, 94618\, United States
CATEGORIES:Jewish Life
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260902T160000
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SUMMARY:Free Exercise’s False Binary: Lessons from Jewish Law at the UC Berkeley Center for Jewish Studies
DESCRIPTION:Organizer: UC Berkeley Center for Jewish Studies \nDate and Time: Wednesday\, Sep. 2nd @ 4:00-5:30pm \nLocation: 3335 Dwinelle Hall\, UC Berkeley campus \nThis lecture puts Jewish law in conversation with the ongoing debate over how the Free Exercise Clause of the First Amendment should be construed. A bedrock assumption in free exercise jurisprudence is that religion’s mandates are absolute. But religious norms do not always operate that way. Jewish law\, for example\, is often nonbinary and spectrum-based. It is an elaborate system of flexible standards and sliding-scale rules that enables religious practitioners to live under secular rule. Jewish law\, then\, allows us to reexamine a common assumption underlying free exercise jurisprudence. It also raises the question whether\, in some instances at least\, religious freedom itself incentivizes the reshaping of religion as unyielding where previously it was understood to be flexible. \nZalman Rothschild is an Assistant Professor of Law and the Horn Family Distinguished Research Scholar in Law and Religion at the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law. He holds a J.D.\, magna cum laude\, from Harvard Law School and a Ph.D. from New York University. His scholarship has appeared in the Columbia Law Review\, Cornell Law Review\, Georgetown Law Journal\, Harvard Law Review Forum\, and Yale Law Journal Forum\, and has been featured in The New York Times\, The New Yorker\, and The New York Review of Books. His popular writing has appeared in The New York Times\, The Atlantic\, The Guardian\, and The Washington Post. He has testified before Congress on religion and public schools and has delivered\, or is scheduled to deliver\, several named lectures\, including the Fishman Family Endowed Lecture at Vassar College\, the Krivosha Lecture at the University of Nebraska\, and the Robert M. Cover Lecture in Law and Religion at Yale Law School. The Law and Religion Section of the Association of American Law Schools has twice awarded him the Harold Berman Award for Excellence in Scholarship. \nThis event is co-sponsored by the Helen Diller Institute for Jewish Law and Israel Studies.
URL:https://jcceastbay.org/events/free-exercises-false-binary-lessons-from-jewish-law-at-the-uc-berkeley-center-for-jewish-studies/
CATEGORIES:Community Bulletin
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260908T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260908T130000
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SUMMARY:Intro to Mah Jongg
DESCRIPTION:Discover the timeless appeal of Mah Jongg in a fun\, engaging environment where every game brings new strategies\, fresh challenges\, and lasting friendships. Our intro to Maj Jongg\, four-part class provides an in-depth\, comprehensive tutorial/course on how to play American Mah Jongg by our esteemed JCC East Bay Mah Jongg instructors. \nSign up here!
URL:https://jcceastbay.org/events/intro-to-mah-jongg-sold-out/2026-09-08/
LOCATION:East Bay Jewish Community Campus\, 5957 Chabot Road\, Oakland\, CA\, 94618\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260911T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260911T203000
DTSTAMP:20260828T185408Z
CREATED:20260828T185408Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260828T185408Z
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SUMMARY:Jewish Gateways' Rosh Hashanah Evening Service in Berkeley
DESCRIPTION:Come As You Are.\nNo Experience Necessary.\nJewish Gateways Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur services offer a welcoming space for people of all backgrounds and levels of experience. Come to connect with Jewish tradition in ways that are personal and meaningful. Register Here. \nNew to High Holidays? We’ll guide you through each part of the service and encourage questions\, so no prior Jewish experience or knowledge of Hebrew is needed. \nServices for All.\nOur community includes wandering Jews\, wondering Jews\, Jew-ish\, cultural Jews\, Jews by choice\, non-Jews\, seekers\, LGBTQIA+\, interfaith families\, people with disabilities and neurodivergent folks\, people of all ages and stages\, and those from diverse racial\, cultural\, and family backgrounds. \nWe offer services for adults and families both in person and online. Whether you’re in the Bay Area or across the country\, we invite you to join us! \nJewish Gateways is an open community\, which means all are welcome to attend our services. We rely on the generosity of our attendees to help make our High Holiday services possible and keep them financially accessible. You’ll choose your donation amount when you register\, and no one will be turned away for lack of funds.
URL:https://jcceastbay.org/events/jewish-gateways-rosh-hashanah-evening-service-in-berkeley/
LOCATION:Epworth United Methodist Church\, 1953 Hopkins St.\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94707\, United States
CATEGORIES:Community Bulletin,HIGH HOLIDAYS,Jewish Life
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260912T090000
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SUMMARY:Jewish Gateways' Rosh Hashanah Day Services in Berkeley: For Families and Adults!
DESCRIPTION:Come As You Are.\nNo Experience Necessary.\nJewish Gateways Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur services offer a welcoming space for people of all backgrounds and levels of experience. Come to connect with Jewish tradition in ways that are personal and meaningful. Register for Adult Morning Service. \nWe also offer Family Services! Welcome the New Year together with music\, stories\, movement\, and interactive prayer\, designed especially for children under nine and their families. After service\, children are encouraged to participate in our special Holiday themed activities. Register for Family Service. \nServices for All.\nOur community includes wandering Jews\, wondering Jews\, Jew-ish\, cultural Jews\, Jews by choice\, non-Jews\, seekers\, LGBTQIA+\, interfaith families\, people with disabilities and neurodivergent folks\, people of all ages and stages\, and those from diverse racial\, cultural\, and family backgrounds. \nWe offer services for adults and families both in person and online. Whether you’re in the Bay Area or across the country\, we invite you to join us! \nJewish Gateways is an open community\, which means all are welcome to attend our services. We rely on the generosity of our attendees to help make our High Holiday services possible and keep them financially accessible. You’ll choose your donation amount when you register\, and no one will be turned away for lack of funds.
URL:https://jcceastbay.org/events/rosh-hashanah-day-services-in-berkeley-for-families-and-adults/
LOCATION:Epworth United Methodist Church\, 1953 Hopkins St.\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94707\, United States
CATEGORIES:Community Bulletin
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260915T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260915T130000
DTSTAMP:20260828T000818Z
CREATED:20260820T224458Z
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SUMMARY:Intro to Mah Jongg
DESCRIPTION:Discover the timeless appeal of Mah Jongg in a fun\, engaging environment where every game brings new strategies\, fresh challenges\, and lasting friendships. Our intro to Maj Jongg\, four-part class provides an in-depth\, comprehensive tutorial/course on how to play American Mah Jongg by our esteemed JCC East Bay Mah Jongg instructors. \nSign up here!
URL:https://jcceastbay.org/events/intro-to-mah-jongg-sold-out/2026-09-15/
LOCATION:East Bay Jewish Community Campus\, 5957 Chabot Road\, Oakland\, CA\, 94618\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260917T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260917T193000
DTSTAMP:20260828T190000Z
CREATED:20260828T190000Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260828T190000Z
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SUMMARY:Sephardic Piyyutim
DESCRIPTION:Join Rabbi Tsipi Gabai and percussionist Katja Cooper for a special musical and spiritual journey into the world of Sephardic Piyyutim — sacred Jewish poetry and prayer songs from the communities of Spain\, North Africa\, and the Middle East. \nThrough beautiful melodies\, stories\, and participation\, Rabbi Gabai will introduce several beloved Piyyutim traditionally sung during Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur. Participants will have the opportunity not only to hear about these ancient poems\, but also to learn and sing some of the melodies together. \nCome discover the beauty of Sephardic Piyyutim — learn their stories\, sing their melodies\, and experience the unique spiritual voice of the Jewish communities of the Mediterranean and Middle East. \nRegister here! \nThursday\, September 17\, 2026 \n6:15 p.m. — light snacks \n6:30 p.m. — talk and performance \nRabbi Tsipi Gabai is a spiritual leader\, educator\, and teacher with a special passion for Sephardic Jewish heritage\, sacred music\, and Piyyutim. She is the daughter of the former Chief Sephardic Rabbi of Northern Israel\, whose family was expelled from Morocco and settled in Israel. Rabbi Gabai represents the twenty-first generation of rabbis in her family and\, in 2003\, became the world’s first female rabbi of Moroccan descent. \nFor more than 20 years\, Rabbi Gabai has led Sephardic High Holiday services\, attracting hundreds of participants from both Sephardic and Ashkenazi backgrounds. She has published a Sephardic siddur\, recorded Sephardic prayer melodies\, and led workshops and educational programs on Jewish Moroccan heritage\, Torah\, Hebrew\, and Sephardic sacred music. \nPercussionist Katja Cooper comes from a musical family and is classically trained\, shaped by the Bay Area’s musical diversity and the UCB Youth Musician Program. She continued her formal studies in Amsterdam\, Netherlands\, where she studied Afro-Caribbean percussion. She spent 14 years in Israel working with dance companies\, leading drum workshops\, recording and performing at festivals and stadiums\, and appearing on television and radio with musicians from Israel\, Brazil\, Cuba\, Spain\, and Africa\, as well as with ongoing South African social justice musician Sharon Katz & the Peace Train. \nHer study of Flamenco Cajón (box drum) in Seville\, Spain\, led to international collaborations\, including a reunion in Switzerland with the Israeli Jewish/Arab band WhiteFlag Project. Back in the Bay Area\, she worked with the San Francisco Symphony’s Educational Program\, participated in the Peruvian Creole community\, and was a member of bands such as Kat Parra’s Sephardi jazz project. Katja taught music and Jewish liturgy for 12 + years in collaboration with Rabbi Tsipora.
URL:https://jcceastbay.org/events/sephardic-piyyutim/
CATEGORIES:HIGH HOLIDAYS,Jewish Life
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260922T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260922T130000
DTSTAMP:20260828T000818Z
CREATED:20260820T224458Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260828T000818Z
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SUMMARY:Intro to Mah Jongg
DESCRIPTION:Discover the timeless appeal of Mah Jongg in a fun\, engaging environment where every game brings new strategies\, fresh challenges\, and lasting friendships. Our intro to Maj Jongg\, four-part class provides an in-depth\, comprehensive tutorial/course on how to play American Mah Jongg by our esteemed JCC East Bay Mah Jongg instructors. \nSign up here!
URL:https://jcceastbay.org/events/intro-to-mah-jongg-sold-out/2026-09-22/
LOCATION:East Bay Jewish Community Campus\, 5957 Chabot Road\, Oakland\, CA\, 94618\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260927T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260927T123000
DTSTAMP:20260828T195631Z
CREATED:20260828T195316Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260828T195631Z
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SUMMARY:¡Sukkot Family Fiesta!
DESCRIPTION:¡Vamos! Join the JCC East Bay in partnership with Olamim to celebrate Sukkot with a Latin-Jewish flair! Our cross-cultural celebration will include crafting papel picado for our community sukkah\, bicycle-powered smoothies\, painting remembrance stones\, and seasonal fresh fruit and vegetables for noshing! \nSign up your family today!
URL:https://jcceastbay.org/events/sukkot-family-fiesta/
CATEGORIES:HOLIDAY,SUKKOT
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260928T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260928T130000
DTSTAMP:20260824T165031Z
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SUMMARY:Monday Mah Jongg: Drop-in Advanced Mah Jongg
DESCRIPTION:Mah Jongg Mondays begins Monday\, September 28 at the JCC East Bay in Rockridge! Our advanced group is for more experienced players or those wanting to sharpen their competitive edge. We meet on an ongoing basis\, every Monday from 10 a.m. – 1 p.m. (except holidays). Drop-ins welcome. No registration required. Please RSVP to Mahjongg@jcceastbay.org if it’s your first time joining us or if you have any questions.
URL:https://jcceastbay.org/events/monday-mah-jongg-drop-in-advanced-mah-jongg/2026-09-28/
LOCATION:East Bay Jewish Community Campus\, 5957 Chabot Road\, Oakland\, CA\, 94618\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260928T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260928T160000
DTSTAMP:20260824T164855Z
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SUMMARY:Monday Mah Jongg: Drop-in Intermediate Mah Jongg
DESCRIPTION:Mah Jongg Mondays begins Monday\, September 28 at the JCC East Bay in Rockridge! Our intermediate group for newer players is an ongoing group that meets every Monday from 1 p.m. – 4 p.m. (except holidays). Drop-ins welcome. No registration required. Please RSVP to Mahjongg@jcceastbay.org if it’s your first time joining us or if you have any questions.
URL:https://jcceastbay.org/events/monday-mah-jongg-drop-in-intermediate-mah-jongg/2026-09-28/
LOCATION:East Bay Jewish Community Campus\, 5957 Chabot Road\, Oakland\, CA\, 94618\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260929T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260929T130000
DTSTAMP:20260824T183026Z
CREATED:20260820T224458Z
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SUMMARY:Intro to Mah Jongg (SOLD OUT)
DESCRIPTION:Discover the timeless appeal of Mah Jongg in a fun\, engaging environment where every game brings new strategies\, fresh challenges\, and lasting friendships. Our intro to Maj Jongg\, four-part class provides an in-depth\, comprehensive tutorial/course on how to play American Mah Jongg by our esteemed JCC East Bay Mah Jongg instructors.
URL:https://jcceastbay.org/events/intro-to-mah-jongg-sold-out-2026-09-29/
LOCATION:East Bay Jewish Community Campus\, 5957 Chabot Road\, Oakland\, CA\, 94618\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20261006T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20261006T183000
DTSTAMP:20260828T220941Z
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LAST-MODIFIED:20260828T220941Z
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SUMMARY:Zionism in Translation: Encounters in the German-Hebrew Archive at the UC Berkeley Center for Jewish Studies
DESCRIPTION:Organizer: UC Berkeley Center for Jewish Studies \nDate and Time: Tuesday\, October 6 @ 5:00-6:30pm \nLocation: 3335 Dwinelle Hall\, UC Berkeley campus \nIn 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 Strauss\, Erich Auerbach\, Walter Benjamin\, Leah Goldberg\, Peter Szondi\, Paul Celan\, and Tuvia Ruebner. This remarkable bilingual archive encompasses not only letters but also drafts\, reviews\, and other ephemeral documents. Written in German and Hebrew\, these documents were sent to and from Jerusalem\, primarily in the decades following 1948. \nThe writers at the center of Rokem’s study contend with the genocidal violence that brought the rich historical relation between German and Hebrew to a seeming end. They also grapple\, in different ways\, with the new reality in Israel/Palestine in the wake of the founding of the State of Israel and the Palestinian Nakba. The bilingual conversation that crosses over between German and Hebrew in these letters thus centers around the question of Jewish fate in the twentieth century and is immersed in negotiations about Jewish nationalism\, the Zionist movement\, and the possibilities of Jewish poetry. In the space between German and Hebrew\, Rokem argues\, the protagonists of her study articulate forms of ambivalence and doubt that remain absent from their published writings. \nIn this book presentation\, Rokem will discuss forms of belonging and resistance that emerged in relation to the Zionist movement throughout the twentieth century\, contributing to a more nuanced understanding of Jewish nationalism and its discontents. \nNa’ama Rokem teaches Hebrew and Comparative Literature at the University of Chicago\, where she has served as director of the Joyce Z. and Jacob Greenberg Center for Jewish Studies and as chair of the Department of Comparative Literature. Zionism in Translation: Encounters in the German-Hebrew Archive (University of Chicago Press\, 2026) is her second book. Her first book\, Prosaic Conditions: Heinrich Heine and the Spaces of Zionist Literature\, was published by Northwestern University Press in 2013. It uses the case of the reception and translation of the works of German-Jewish poet Heinrich Heine to argue that prose – as a figure of thought\, a mode and a medium – played an instrumental role in the literary foundations of the Zionist revolution. Currently\, she is working as one of the co-editors of the forthcoming Volume IV.2 of the Critical Edition of the Complete Works of Hannah Arendt (Essays and Short Writings on Jewish Politics) and starting a new research project on Zionism and pedagogy. \nRokem has been involved in a number of collaborative projects\, including The Quest for Modern Language: Between the Mediterranean and the Black Sea\, and Translation Networks and the Stakes of Comparison: Convergences and Crossings Between Arabic and Hebrew\, both sponsored by the Neubauer Collegium on Culture and Society at the University of Chicago\, and the Oak Woods Cemetery project\, a public history initiative that uses a historic cemetery in Woodlawn as a site for teaching\, programming\, and researching the history of the South Side of Chicago\, with a particular interest in the complexly intertwined histories of African Americans and Jews in the city. This project has received funding from the NEH\, the Mellon Foundation\, and the Women’s Board at the University of Chicago. \n 
URL:https://jcceastbay.org/events/zionism-in-translation-encounters-in-the-german-hebrew-archive-at-the-uc-berkeley-center-for-jewish-studies/
CATEGORIES:Community Bulletin
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20261007T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20261007T173000
DTSTAMP:20260828T222818Z
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SUMMARY:Disasters of Biblical Proportions: Reimagining the Ten Plagues in the Age of Covid and October 7 UC Berkeley Center for Jewish Studies
DESCRIPTION:Organizer: UC Berkeley Center for Jewish Studies \nDate and Time: Wednesday\, October 7 @ 4:00-5:30pm \nLocation: 3335 Dwinelle Hall\, UC Berkeley campus \n\nThe 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 disaster and justice. In this presentation\, Steven Weitzman will explore how Jews\, Christians and Muslims have reimagined the biblical story to make sense of the disasters and injustices of their own age\, focusing on how the story has been reshaped in the wake of the traumatic events and protests that have unfolded since October 7\, 2023. \nSteven Weitzman serves as the Ella Darivoff Director of the Herbert D. Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies at the University of Pennsylvania as well as the Abraham M. Ellis Professor of Semitic Languages and Literatures in the Department of Religious Studies. His previous academic roles include directing Stanford’s Taube Center for Jewish Studies. Recent publications include The Origin of the Jews: the Search for Roots in a Rootless Age; the coedited Princeton Companion to Jewish Studies; Disasters of Biblical Proportions: the Ten Plagues Then\, Now\, and at the End of the World (the basis of this talk); and The Jews: a History\, co-written with John Efron and Matthias Lehmann and now in its fourth edition.
URL:https://jcceastbay.org/events/disasters-of-biblical-proportions-reimagining-the-ten-plagues-in-the-age-of-covid-and-october-7-uc-berkeley-center-for-jewish-studies/
CATEGORIES:Community Bulletin
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20261022T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20261022T170000
DTSTAMP:20260828T223808Z
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SUMMARY:Seeing Through a Mirror: The 1948 War in the Eyes of the World with the UC Berkeley Center for Jewish Studies\, Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life
DESCRIPTION:Organizers: UC Berkeley Center for Jewish Studies\, Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life \nDate and Time: Thursday\, October 22\, from 5:00-7:00 p.m.\nLocation: Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life\, 2121 Allston Way\, Berkeley\, CA \n\nAnnual Diller Lecture \nThe 1948 Arab-Israeli War attracted attention from the highest levels of international society\, state governments\, transnational NGOs\, journalism\, and public opinion. Palestine and the emerging state of Israel functioned as both a mirror and a magnifier. Israel’s establishment and the Palestinian Nakba were interpreted through countries’ specific interests\, histories\, and cultures. These events also elicited tremendous passion. Palestine’s mirroring and magnifying effects did not originate in 1948\, but the events of that year drastically augmented them\, and the patterns of global reaction remain with us to this day. \nDerek Penslar is the William Lee Frost Professor of Jewish History and the Director of the Center for Jewish Studies at Harvard University. Derek previously taught at Indiana University\, the University of Toronto\, and the University of Oxford\, where he was the inaugural holder of the Stanley Lewis Chair in Modern Israel Studies. Derek has published a dozen books\, including Theodor Herzl: The Charismatic Leader (2020) and Zionism: An Emotional State (2023). He is currently writing a book titled The War for Palestine\, 1947-1949: A Global History. Derek is a past president of the American Academy for Jewish Research\, a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada\, and an Honorary Fellow of St. Anne’s College\, Oxford.
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