Wednesday – World Religions
4/23 @ 2:15 PM /MR Instructor: Cantor Jana Schachter In this class we will learn about the Amish....
March 28, 2025
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Thursday – Ethics in Modern Life
4/3 & 4/17@ 11:00 AM/MR Hosted by: Sarah Rosenson In each of these sessions we will discuss a different ethical issue that has strong arguments on both sides. Our issues will be drawn from a wide range of sources and will cover a wide variety of topics...
March 28, 2025
Thursday – Alexander Hamilton – A Man Before His Time
4/3 @ 1:30 PM/CH Instructor Trish Chambers This presentation is the story of Alexander Hamilton, one of the Founding Fathers of our country. It highlights the life of a brilliant immigrant and self-made man. The story is a timeline that traces his life from its meager beginnings...
March 28, 2025
Thursdays – History of San Francisco
4/10 & 4/24 @ 11:00 AM/MR Hosted by: Barbara Anderson In April we will finish up “The History of San Francisco” and reprise New York, New York, It’s a Wonderful Town.” It’s a miss-mash of history, memoir and of course, the Jewish Connection. Bring your memories of life in...
March 28, 2025
Thursdays – Music in the Period of Common Practice Introduction and Concepts About Musical Common Practice.
4/10 & 4/24 @ 2:00 PM/CH Instructor: Ira Miller This period encompasses an era of music that is normally referred to as Western Classical Music, which ran from roughly between 1650 to 1680, continuing to between 1890 and 1930. 4/10 We will begin with why Western Europe would...
March 28, 2025
Thursdays – Famous Jewish Personalities in Politics, Science, Music and Art
4/3 @ 3:15 PM/ CH 4/10, 4/17 & 4/24 @ 3:00 PM/ CH Instructor: Stuart Liss 4/3 Facts about famous scientists These days the world's most innovative scientists don't really get as much attention as, say, the Kardashians. But maybe they should. Because real, profound geniuses often come hand-in-hand...
March 28, 2025
Thursdays – Great Women in Theater and Film
4/3, 4/10, 4/17 & 4/24 @ 7:30 PM/CH Hosted by: Leila Joffe In this course, we will explore the remarkable contributions of great women in theater and film. We will examine the talent and legacy of such iconic artists as Katharine Hepburn, Barbra Streisand, Meryl Streep, Patti...
March 28, 2025
Fridays – “X-Raying the Pharaohs: A Look Inside the Mummies of Ancient Egypt”
4/11 & 4/18 @ 11:00 AM/CH Instructor: Stephen “Dr. Steve” Phillips, Ph.D. Wilhelm Roentgen discovered X-ray technology in 1895 – did you know that Egyptian mummies were among the very first things ever x-rayed, and that the first publication of a radiograph was by an Egyptologist? This lecture...
March 28, 2025
Fridays – Opera
4/4 & 4/18 @ 1:00 PM/CH Join host Gerry Tremblay as he explores the back drop to some of the world’s most famous operas fun for all opera lovers. ...
March 28, 2025
Sundays – Art History Appreciation The Renaissance
4/6 & 4/27 @ 2:00 PM/CH 4/6 Titian – The great Venetian painter, his influence on color and texture in art and his relationship with the masters of Rome and Florence. 4/27 Renaissance Art in Northern Europe – How the Renaissance spread from Italy to the...
March 28, 2025