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33rd Annual San Diego International Jewish Film Festival
In-Person February 15-26 Streaming February 27-March 3 View the Film Guide and purchase tickets at https://2023sdijff.eventive.org/welcome. $3.00 off Discount code for in person Garfield Theatre screenings (General Admission and LFJCC Member price) for Beth Israel: BETHIS23.
Find out more »Dominican Republic Service Learning Trip
When: Friday, February 17 (late evening) to Saturday, February 25, 2023 Where: We will be living and working in the village of La Guama, in the northwest region of the Dominican Republic. What: We will primarily be building a home for one beneficiary family. More importantly, we will be participating in […]
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Does the Bible Take the Bible Literally? Biblical Criticism of Religion with Rabbi Emeritus Michael Berk
We tend to think of religion as how we relate to God; how we serve and think of God. In other words, religion is about rituals, rites, and praise of God. The Bible criticizes this understanding of religion. In this class, we will examine how the bible criticizes the temple rites and rituals and how […]
Find out more »The Bedouin and the Hebrew Bible
Do Jews owe their relationship with the God of the Bible to the Bedouin populating Israel's Negev? That's the theory of Israel's foremost expert on the nomadic people of the Negev, an American Israeli who has spent the last four decades living among the Bedouin and researching them. Clinton Bailey posits that Moses, who fled […]
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