Podcasts about lehrhaus judaica

So many of us today have learned the skills and the distress tolerance to struggle with the classics of literature--yet, when we approach the texts of our tradition, our approaches to text are no more sophisticated than when we were in 7th grade. How can we cultivate both freedom and sacredness when adults read Torah? Jeremy is the Executive Director of Lehrhaus Judaica, an organization that builds community through learning and ritual, throughout the Bay Area. Following his ordination in 2001 from Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion in New York, Jeremy served as Associate Rabbi of Temple Israel of Boston for 15 years. Among other leadership roles at Temple Israel, Jeremy was the founding director of the Riverway Project, a nationally recognized outreach and engagement initiative for adults in their 20s and 30s, and was the synagogue’s Director of Education. He earned a doctorate in Near Eastern and Judaic Studies from Brandeis University, in 2017. Jeremy lives in Berkeley, CA.

Fred Rosenbaum, founding director of Lehrhaus Judaica and author of 7 books, speaks about philosopher/educator Franz Rosenzweig whose original school without walls inspired Fred to launch a similar school focused on dialogue in the SF Bay Area in 1974.

Sixty-eight years after the Holocaust, governments continue to struggle with preventing genocide and mass atrocities. In 2005, United Nations member states agreed that nations share a responsibility to protect their citizens from genocide, crimes against humanity, war crimes and ethnic cleansing. Join Mike Abramowitz, Director of the Center for the Prevention of Genocide at the US Holocaust Memorial Museum, and Richard S. Williamson, former presidential special envoy to Sudan, for a discussion about how the responsibility to protect has been applied in recent crises such as Libya and Syria.This event is co-presented by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, with promotional partner Lehrhaus Judaica.Mike Abramowitz is the Director for the Center for the Prevention of Genocide of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. Richard S. Williamson is the Former Presidential Special Envoy to Sudan.For more information about this event, visit: http://www.worldaffairs.org/events/2013/preventing-genocide.html

Lehrhaus Judaica and the Osher Marin JCC partnered for a half-day conference on March 17, 2013, titled Free Ranging Communities: Jewish Life in Marin and Hollywood. The conference at the Osher Marin JCC included Prof. Marc Dollinger in conversation with two of the founders of the Marin County Jewish commuity; Rabbi Michael Barenbaum and Elliot Levin.