Here's the complete BJE Feast Schedule!

• Registration/Welcome: 2:00 pm
• Session One: 2:30 - 3:45 pm
• Session Two: 4:00 - 5:15 pm
• Session Three: 5:30 - 6:45 pm
• Make Noise in the Library! Afterparty: 6:45 - 8pm Featuring:

(Music, schmoozing, and luscious bites to tide you over before you leave for dinner)

EVERYONE (Ages 21-40ish) IS WELCOME and EVERYTHING IS FREE.

(Including free garage parking - see directions below)

2:30 – 3:45 pm: The First COURSE:

• Find Yourself Here - A Self-realization Workshop: Rabbi Joshua Marder, Jewish Study Network
• How To Change The World: What Moses and Obama Have In Common: Toby Rubin & Maya Bernstein, UpStart Bay Area
• Is "Eco-" the New Kosher? Rabbi Dorothy Richman, UC Berkeley
• Israel's Contradictions Through the Lens of Hip-hop, Rap, and Rock Music: Gabe Salgado, Timeless Cities
• Life and Death, Love and Loss, War and Peace: The Poetry of Yehudah Amichai: Rabbi Larry Raphael, Congregation Sherith Israel
• Lost, and Now Found, Jews of Uganda: Dr. Marc Dollinger, SF State University
• Lost Origins of Judaism and Christianity: Dr. Henry Shreibman, Reconstructionist Rabbinical College
• Searching for Perfection…with Maimonides: Joshua Klein, Jewish Educator
• YOGA CLASS: Finding Our Balance: Yoga and the Sacred Sephirot: Julie Emden, Yoga Instructor

4:00 – 5:15 pm: The Second COURSE:

• Finders Keepers? A Talmudic Treasure Hunt: Rabbi Peretz Mochkin, Chabad of North Beach
• How To Change The World: What Moses and Obama Have In Common: Toby Rubin & Maya Bernstein, UpStart Bay Area
• Is Being Good-looking a Blessing or a Curse?: What Flight of the Conchords Teaches Us: Rabbi Joshua Strulowitz, Congregation Adath Israel
• Israeli Family Through the Eyes of Young Israeli Filmmakers: Shevi Rosenfeld, Filmmaker
• Jewish Counterculture: Freedom Riders or Fundamentalists? Dr. Ari Y Kelman, UC Davis
• Joy in the Face of Anxiety – a Kabbalah Perspective: Rabbi Ahron Hecht, Richmond Torah Center
• Lost, Found, and Scratchy: What Old Jewish Records Tell Us: Howard Freedman, Jewish Community Library
• One People, Two Worlds: An Exploration of Chabad and Reform Views: Rabbi Jonathan Jaffe, Congregation Emanu-El & Rabbi Gedalia Potash, Chabad of Noe Valley
• Lost, and Now Found, Jews of Uganda: Dr. Marc Dollinger, SF State University
• Seeking Jewish Spirituality: Rabbi Bridget Wynne, Jewish Gateways
• Sexual Healing or Sexual Scarring? Dr. Henry Shreibman, Reconstructionist Rabbinical College

5:30 – 6:45 pm: The Third COURSE:

• Are There Jewish Gurus? Rabbi Ahron Hecht, Richmond Torah Center
• Hidden in Plain Sight: The Troubling History of Jews in Blackface: Dr. Ari Y Kelman, UC Davis
• "New" Jews: What Have We Lost? Whom Have We Found? Rabbi Sydney Mintz, Congregation Emanu-El
• One People, Two Worlds: An Exploration of Chabad and Reform Views: Rabbi Jonathan Jaffe, Congregation Emanu-El & Rabbi Gedalia Potash, Chabad of Noe Valley
• Righteous Women of the Exodus: Unsung Heroes: Rabbi Chai Levy, Congregation Kol Shofar
• Soul Mates: Is There a B'shert for Me? Judith Gottesman, MSW, Jewish Educator and Matchmaker
• Violence, Savagery, Betrayal...did someone say Bible? Rabbi David Kasher, UC Berkeley
• COOKING CLASS: Creating Gourmet Passover dishes: Rebecca Ets-Hokin, Chef Extraordinaire
• DANCE CLASS: Mad Hot Klezmer and Hasidic Dance - Old school to Hip Hop: Bruce Bierman, Jewish Dance Theater
  

NEW LOCATION! at JCHS (Jewish Community High School of the Bay). We're going back to school - old school. But without the principal and all the rules.

DAY OF INSTRUCTIONS & DIRECTIONS:

• Pedestrians: enter at 1835 Ellis Street, between Scott and Pierce. Buzz intercom and say "Feast of Jewish Learning"

• Drivers: enter enclosed parking on Pierce Street, between Eddy and Ellis. Buzz intercom and say "Feast of Jewish Learning"

• Bus Lines: 38 Geary / 5 Fulton / 24 Divisadero / 31 Balboa
  

The BJE Feast is co-sponsored by:

510 - Berkeley Hillel's Grad and Young Professionals Group | American Jewish World Service | Avodah | Bay Area Tribe | BayJews.org | Be’chol Lashon (In Every Tongue) | Birthright Israel NEXT Bay Area | BJE Jewish Community Library | Chabad of Noe Valley | Chabad of North Beach | Congregation Adath Israel | Congregation Netivot Shalom Young Adults Havurah | Congregation Sha'ar Zahav | Congregation Sherith Israel | Contemporary Jewish Museum | Eco Jews of the Bay | Jewish Film Festival | Jewish Mosaic | KlezCalifornia | Lehrhaus Judaica | Mitzvah on the Rocks | Moishe House SF | Oy Bay! | Progressive Jewish Alliance | Reconstructionist Rabbinical College | San Francisco Hillel | Second Saturday at the Cellar | The Hub at the JCCSF | Tzavta of the Israel Center of the Jewish Community Federation | UpStart Bay Area | Young Adult Community of Congregation Emanu-El | Young Adult Division (YAD) of the Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco, the Peninsula, Marin, and Sonoma Counties | list in formation...