Oct 13 Italo Svevo, Zeno’s Conscience (La Coscienza di Zeno) translated by William Weaver
Nov 10 S.Y Agnon, Only Yesterday translated by Barbara Harshav
Dec 8 Joseph Roth, The Radetzky March
Jan 12 Sayed Kashua, Dancing Arabs translated by Miriam Shlesinger
Feb 9 Art Spiegelman, Maus and Paul Celan, Poems of Paul Celan bilingual
edition translated by Michael Hamburger
Mar 9 Arthur Koestler, Darkness at Noon
Apr 13 Der Nister, The Family Mashber translated by Leonard Wolf
May 11 Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely loud and Incredibly Close

Registration required
$36 members, $50 non-members
Per year (8 meetings)

Ikarim (Electives) - Fall 2010

Assessing the Israel and American Jewish Community Relationship:
A Series of Roundtable Discussions with Those in Our Community Most Involved in this Issue
with Rabbi Jonathan Jaffe
 
Celluloid Yids: Jewish Cinema's Evolution from the 1920s – Today with Shalom Rosenberg
 
The Holy Books of the Jews & Jewish Literacy with Rabbi Lawrence Kushner

Yesod: The Two Year Core Program

Yesod (which means “foundation”) is the centerpiece of the Tauber program.  This two year curriculum is designed to impart knowledge of the central Jewish texts, thinkers, and ideas.  

Early Bird Discount is available through August 31, 2010 for the 2010-2011 Yesod Program. Hurry – Register NOW!!
 
Click here for registration and more information about the Yesod Program

Yesod Graduate Course

Each trimester, students who have completed the two year core Yesod Tauber program are invited to continue the conversation with fellow Yesod grads. This year we are offering a Yesod graduate Course each trimester.  This fall, starting in October, please join your fellow Yesod colleagues for a rich experience in the world of the “Medieval Jewish Poets and Mystics.
 
 
Eat, Love, Pray: The World of Medieval Jewish Poets and Mystics
With Rabbi Jane Litman
 
L'cha Dodi - Come, my dear one - to learn about the rich culture of wine, Eros and spirituality that underscores the poetry and prayers of the great writers of the Jewish Middle Ages.  This course will explore the primary texts of the early Kabbalists and the cosmopolitan Jewish lyricists who lived in the Muslim world from the eleventh to the fifteenth centuries. Their literature expresses surprisingly modern concerns such as theological innovation, interfaith relations, Zionism, and diverse sexual desire. The extraordinary flowering of Jewish creativity centuries ago provides a thought provoking comparison with how such issues are treated in our own day.  This course is only open to students who have completed the two-year Yesod Program.
 
Thursday Nights
October 7, 14, 21, 28; November 4, 11, 18; December 2
7:00 – 9:00 pm
 
Registration required
Yesod Graduate Course is per trimester.
$36 members, $50 non-members .  

Early Bird Discount is available through August 31, 2010 for the 2010-2011 Yesod Program.

Downtown Tauber

Our noon-time lunch and learn series begins this fall with an exciting course on the power of the “Story” in Jewish Tradition.  Please join Rabbi Mintz as she leads us on a journey through midrash. Rabbi Lawrence Kushner leads the winter Downtown Tauber series which begins in January - Kabbalah & The Jewish Mystical Imagination.  PLEASE NOTE -   Registration for Downtown Tauber winter trimester will not be available until December.  Rabbi Ryan Bauer leads the spring trimester, beginning in March 2011. Downtown Tauber is aimed at our Young Adult learners, but is open to anyone in the congregation! Space is limited.  
 
 
Midrash and Mythos-An In Depth Exploration of Midrash Aggadah and the Power of "Story" in Jewish Tradition!
With Rabbi Sydney Mintz

 
It has been taught that from the moment the Torah was transmitted to the Jews on Mount Sinai, the process of midrash began.  Midrash is the body of work that deciphers, explains, expounds upon and elaborates on the Torah text.  Many of the stories that we think of as a part of our original text are actually midrashim, but have become so embedded in our tradition that it is difficult to distinguish midrash from Torah.  Midrash is distinguished primarily by Midrash Halacha, focusing on legal texts and Midrash Aggadah focusing on non-legal or homiletical texts. This new downtown Tauber course created for our Young Adult community will focus on midrash aggadah and delve into the original torah texts and its partnership with a variety of Midrashim from different time periods.  We will explore Midrash Rabbah as our primary lens into the Torah.  If you have not yet studied midrash, it is a wonderful opportunity to understand the stories that bring our Torah to life.
 
Thursdays
October 7, 21, 28; November 4, 11, 18; December 2, 9
Noon – 1:00 pm

Location: Parallax Fund, L.P.
88 Kearny Street, 20th Floor
San Francisco, CA 94108
 
Registration required
$18 members, $25 non-members s