Living & Learning
Personal Growth
Spring Schedule
Resolving Conflicts through Dialogue:
Justice and Reconciliation
Resolution through dialogue is an effective means of gaining new perspective
and insight into two emotionally charged conflicts in the Jewish world:
Jews and Germans and Israelis and Palestinians. Explore recent literature
dealing with resolving and healing ethnic conflicts through dialogue and
discover how these techniques can be instrumental in leading the way to
justice and reconciliation.
With Dr. Jerry Diller and Dr. Meshulam Plaves
Tuesdays, April 5, 12 and 19, 7:30 pm; Fee: $40
• For more information or to register
call 510-848-0237 x110 or email info@brjcc.org
Invest in Yourself and Your Community
Where you deposit/invest your money can make a difference and earn interest
for you! Find out how investing/depositing your money in community development
credit unions, loan funds and other investment vehicles helps build affordable
housing, develop small businesses and create jobs in low-income areas.
Community Investing is a great way to fulfill Maimonides' Highest Level
of Tzedakah. Program includes keynote talks by local experts in community
investing as well as an information fair on local investment opportunities.
Thursday, April 7, 7:30 pm; Fee: FREE
• For more information call 510-839-2900
x261 or email ilana@jfed.org
Co-sponsored with the Volunteer Action Center of the Jewish Community
Federation of the Greater East Bay
Wedding Bells: Interfaith Style
What will we have at our wedding? Chupah? Unity candle? Will we break
a glass or just break bread? What have other interfaith couples done?
Did they mix traditions? How did they honor their parents and yet be true
to themselves? How did they choose an officiant? Join married couples
who will share their experiences and a rabbi who performs interfaith marriages
to explore the options.
Monday, April 18, 7:30 pm; Fee: $7
• For more information contact Dawn
Kepler at (510) 839-2900 x347 or dawn@jfed.org.
Co-sponsored with Building Jewish Bridges: Outreach to Interfaith Couples,
Jewish Community Federation of the Greater East Bay
Come Talk of Love
Please join Ann Swidler, UCB professor of Sociology, and author of Talk
of Love: How Culture Matters, and Paul Feinstein, publisher of David Moss’s
Love Letters: A Celebration of Jewish Love and Marriage in Words and Image
for a compelling discussion of how love and marriage have been represented
in various times and culture, how people find and sustain real love, and
how their culture of love shapes their expectations and behavior.
Sunday, May 15, 10:30 am; Fee: FREE
• For more information call (510) 848-0237
x110 or email info@brjcc.org
Co-sponsored with Netivot Shalom
Adoption! The Jewish Connection
Thinking of adopting? Already an adoptive parent? Join a panel of adoptive
parents -prospective parents too- to discuss the joys and realities of
raising children from a variety of racial and cultural backgrounds with
a Jewish identity. Topics will include: when one parent isn’t Jewish,
adopting older children, dealing with birth families, strengthening multicultural,
multiracial Jewish families.
Monday, May 23, 7:30pm; Fee: $10/person or $15/couple
• For more information contact Dawn
Kepler at (510) 839-2900 x347 or dawn@jfed.org.
Co-sponsored with Building Jewish Bridges: Outreach to Interfaith Couples
Jewish Community Federation of the Greater East Bay and Tiferet
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