Join hundreds of inquisitive minds for dozens of interactive workshops on Jewish texts, film, art, philosophy, history, spirituality, mysticism, yoga, dance, music, cooking, life and love - all attempting to capture the titillating theme of WANDER/LUST.

From secular to orthodox, Talmud scholar to complete beginner, everyone (21-40ish) is welcome and everything is FREE.

Sunday, March 7, 2010: 11 am - 4:30 pm

BJE's 5th Annual YOUNG ADULT Feast of Jewish Learning: WANDER/LUST
at JCCSF: 3200 California Street in San Francisco

• Registration: 11:00 am (sharp, so we can start on time, please)
• First Course: 11:30 – 12:45
• LUNCH: 12:45 – 1:25 (100% KOSHER)
• Second Course: 1:30 – 2:45
• Third Course: 3:00 – 4:15
  

CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD ALL THE CLASS DESCRIPTIONS AND TEACHER BIOS.

Session I: 11:30 – 12:45 pm

• Get Lost: Self-Imposed Exile and the Journey to Self with Shayna Korb, Institute of Transpersonal Psychology
• Innovation and Tradition: Is There Anything New Under the Sun? with Maya Bernstein, UpStart Bay Area
• Our Prophets, Ourselves: Reclaiming our Radical Roots with Zachary Lazarus, Progressive Jewish Alliance
• Politics on the Roof: Of Fiddlers, Photographs, Film and Federations with Dr. Ari Y. Kelman, UC Davis
• Wanderlust with a camera: Screening and discussion with Sam Ball, Citizen Film
• Who needs love when there’s always lust? Judaism’s Take on Love with Rabbi Ahron Hecht, Richmond Torah Center
• YOGA: Moving Inspiration with Dr. Deena Aranoff, Graduate Theological Union (GTU)

Session II: 1:30 – 2:45 pm

• Creating the Sacred in Intimacy with Rabbi Ahron Hecht, Richmond Torah Center
• Death Wanders - Rabbinic Reflections on Encounters with the Other Side with Rabbi Yonatan Cohen, Congregation Beth Israel
• The Kindness of Strangers: Hospitality and Homicide in the Hebrew Bible with Dr. David Henkin, UC Berkeley
• Noach: On the Boat and Off the Wagon with Jhos Singer, Coastside Jewish Community
• Odyssey or Stuck in the Mud: The Thicket is the Ticket with Rabbi Micah Hyman, Congregation Beth Sholom
• The Queen of Sheba and the Seductions of Wisdom with Dr. Steve Weitzman, Stanford University and Rabbi Mira Wasserman, UC Berkeley and GTU
• Reading the Talmud at Moyshe's Coney Island Sideshow: Ancient Narrative and Modern Jewishness with Eli Rosenblatt, UC Berkeley and GTU
• Wandering Tongue: Following the Journey of Yiddish with Howard Freedman, BJE Jewish Community Library
• COOKING CLASS: Passover Dishes from Around the World with Rebecca Ets-Hokin, CCP, Chef Extraordinaire

Session III: 3:00 – 4:15 pm

• Adultery in the Palace: A Talmudic Approach to David and Batsheva with Dalia Davis, Merkavah Women’s Torah Institute
• Does Your Mind Wander During the Passover Seder? A Step by Step Guide to a More Meaningful Seder with Rabbi Josh Marder, Jewish Study Network
• Israeli American cultural differences as reflected in HBO’s In Treatment and Israel’s B’Tipul with Gal Szekely, MFT
• Love and Longing, Journey and Union: Movement within the God of the Kabbalists with Dr. Deena Aranoff, Graduate Theological Union (GTU)
• Lust Lost: Dysfunctional Marriage in the Talmud with Frayda Gonshor, Bay Area Learning Initiative
• Nostalgia: Lusting After the Past or Feeding the Soul? With Evan Wolkenstein, Jewish Community High School of the Bay
• Rabbini-care: Exploring the Jewish health care system with Rabbi Josh Strulowitz, Congregation Adath Israel
• Sex Tales from the Road with Rabbi David Kasher, UC Berkeley

Questions? Contact Mariana Roytman Schiffner

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Feast is co-sponsored by:

79ers of Jewish Family and Children's Services | AJWS-AVODAH Partnership
Baraban.Com Russian San Francisco | Bay Area Tribe | Bay Area Learning Initiative | Be’chol Lashon (In Every Tongue), A Global Jewish Community | Berkeley Hillel: 510 – Jewish programming for grads and young professionals | Birthright Israel NEXT Bay Area | BJE Jewish Community Library | Congregation Beth Sholom | Congregation Sha'ar Zahav | Contemporary Jewish Museum (CJM) | Hazon | Jewish Milestones | Jewish Mosaic | JIMENA - Jews Indigenous to the Middle East and North Africa | LGBT Alliance of the SF-based Jewish Community Federation | Lehrhaus Judaica | Mitzvah on the Rocks | North Beach Chabad | Oshman Family JCC | Progressive Jewish Alliance (PJA) | Richmond Torah Center Chabad | San Francisco Hillel Grads | Second Saturday at the Cellar | The Hub of the JCCSF | Tzavta of the SF-based Jewish Community Federation | UpStart Bay Area |
Wilderness Torah | YAD of the SF-based Jewish Community Federation | Young Adult Community at Congregation Emanu-El