Join us for Olamim’s signature bilingual family music program where Jewish learning comes alive through Latin American rhythms, Jewish stories, songs, movement, and play. Led by Tkiya-trained beloved musician Verónica…
Join us for Simchat Torah — the Jewish season finale and season premiere, all in one joyful night! Families will sing, dance, celebrate, and journey from the very end of…
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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…
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…
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…
Join us for an evening of song, prayer, reflection, and community in commemoration of October 7. Co-hosted by Netivot Shalom, Beth El, Congregation Beth Israel, Temple Sinai, Beth Jacob Congregation, Temple Beth Abraham JCOB (Jewish Coalition Of Berkeley), OJA (Oakland Jewish Alliance), and Sinai Memorial. For details and to register, please visit the official registration…
Join us for Olamim’s signature bilingual family music program where Jewish learning comes alive through Latin American rhythms, Jewish stories, songs, movement, and play. Led by Tkiya-trained beloved musician Verónica Freidkes, families will sing in Spanish, Hebrew, and English while celebrating multilingualism, Jewish life, and the diversity of the global Jewish community. Designed for children…
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.
