Join us for a stimulating evening of cocktails, crafts, comedy, and conversation! All adults (21 and over) are welcome to celebrate this wild and crazy holiday. No Jewish experience necessary. 7:00 – Brief & boisterous telling of the Purim story by comedian Joshua Walters 7:30- Choose from four exciting conversations: *Sasha Goldberg of Keshet &…
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Take a look at who we Jews are – single, secular, intermarried, observant, innovative, multiracial, Jews by choice and Jews by chance. Come listen and you’ll celebrate our promising future. Where We are Heading: Voices from Our Community Jews are good at talking but can we listen? Through a series of short personal reflections members…
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A discussion for girlfriends, wives, mothers, & grandmothers Join other women, Jewish or not, to examine interfaith marriage in relation to culture and gender. What are the unique expectations and responses that a woman encounters as she creates a home and builds a family life in which her religion is not that of her partner?…
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Diane Tobin is the Director of Be’chol Lashon and is our next speaker the What Color Are Jews series Imagine the Jewish Future Worldwide, the number of Jews is stagnant. Decimated by the Inquisition, the Holocaust, high intermarriage rates and low birth rates, Jews now comprise only 0.2% of the world’s people. In focusing our…
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Abi & Andy with their kids Lori Voices From Our Community Imagining What’s Next Activists, environmentalists, single mothers, Israelis, interfaith couples, Jews of color, spiritual seekers, grandchildren of Holocaust survivors, adopted, transgendered – describe anyone you know? Join us Sunday, Feb. 26, from 1-5 p.m. at the Oshman Family JCC in Palo Alto. I am…
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