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Turkey Egg, by Ellie by Jewseum

Untitled, by Adam by Jewseum

Untitled, by Avima by Jewseum

What We Don't Talk About When We Talk About The War, by Jesse by Jewseum

What We Hold, by Jade by Jewseum

Yes, I Have Changed, by Camila by Jewseum

Yom Kippur Reflections, by Maya M. by Jewseum

Merissa Nathan Gerson talks about the “double mitzvah”—the Jewish mandate on Sabbath lovemaking. Merissa Nathan Gerson is a freelance writer and educator. She was the intergenerational trauma consultant to Amazon's hit show, Transparent and has writing featured in The New York Times, Playboy Magazine, The Atlantic, Tablet, Lilith, and many others. She teaches about sex and religion and the inherit...

Rabbi Zac Kamenetz wants to know: What good can I do in this world? What have folks before me tried? Most often, he looks to ancient Jewish sources of wisdom for inspiration to these questions, but he also gets some help from Leonard Cohen, Mark Rothko, and his wife Jen, and little girl. Kamenetz received rabbinic ordination in Jerusalem and has degrees from the University of Maryland and the Grad...

The Rest of Us: Discussions on Social Justice Inspired by Sabbath: The 2017 Dorothy Saxe Invitational, this series of gallery chats looks at labor and rest, our right to rest, and the long legal battles that entitled workers to an 8-hour day and weekend. Corinne Goria is the editor of Invisible Hands: Voices from the Global Economy (Voice of Witness) and Assistant Editor of Underground America: Na...

Goodman’s hanging paper installation is inspired by the final scene in the tale The Bird of Happiness. This scene reveals the young king’s daily ritual of spending an hour inside of a shack, dressed in the rags he grew up in, looking at his reflection in a mirror. During this hour, the king looks back on where he came from in order to move his kingdom forward. Julia Goodman creates low relief scul...

In conjunction with The 613 by Archie Rand, contemporary classical musicians perform works by twentieth-century Jewish minimalist composers. The concerts take place in the galleries among the paintings. In this selection from the first program in the series, Brian Adam McCune, and Lily Kaye Sevier, of the Awesome Orchestra, performs Steve Reich's "Nagoya Marimbas".

Death, Dementia, and… Dessert? Sometimes humor can be found in the most painful and frustrating of circumstances, especially when caring for a loved one at the end of life. Storytellers Josh Kornbluth, Julia Weber, Elizabeth Sale, and Sara Faith Alterman will let us laugh through our tears, as they share deeply personal stories and experiences that all of us can identify with. The program will be...

During San Francisco Pride week, a giant pink triangle is installed on Twin Peaks. In the gallery chat "Andrew Ramer on Pride Week’s Pink Triangle in Conjunction with Yom HaShoah," Andrew Ramer talks about how the pink triangle went from being a symbol of persecution to a symbol of gay pride. Presented in partnership with Congregation Sha’ar Zahav, and in conjunction with Cary Leibowitz: Museum Sh...

Five-minute audio clip featuring comedians from "Disabled Comedy Only," produced by Nina G., and recorded live at the Impact Hub in Oakland on Oct 30, 2014. These audio clips are in conjunction with the "Humor and the Disability Experience: A Stand-Up Comedy Show" on Apr 23, 2017 at The CJM. Learn more: https://thecjm.org/programs/117 Dedication: This program at The Contemporary Jewish Museum is d...

UC Berkeley Professor Mel Gordon discusses the mythical history of the city of Kandor and its allusions to Jewish history in conjunction with Kandor 17 by Mike Kelley. Mel Gordon is Professor of Theatre Arts at the University of California, Berkeley. A director and writer, he is the author of fifteen books and one hundred and thirty articles on popular culture and American, French, German, Italian...

What We Hold: Teens reflect on how memories extend over generations It started with a question: “What do we inherit, embody, and echo from previous generations?” What emerged were more questions, conversations, and discoveries. The resulting audio stories share a layered quilt of myth and memory from the perspective of Bay Area teens in 2016. Exploring their own family narratives allowed these stu...

What We Hold: Teens reflect on how memories extend over generations It started with a question: “What do we inherit, embody, and echo from previous generations?” What emerged were more questions, conversations, and discoveries. The resulting audio stories share a layered quilt of myth and memory from the perspective of Bay Area teens in 2016. Exploring their own family narratives allowed these stu...

What We Hold: Teens reflect on how memories extend over generations It started with a question: “What do we inherit, embody, and echo from previous generations?” What emerged were more questions, conversations, and discoveries. The resulting audio stories share a layered quilt of myth and memory from the perspective of Bay Area teens in 2016. Exploring their own family narratives allowed these stu...

What We Hold: Teens reflect on how memories extend over generations It started with a question: “What do we inherit, embody, and echo from previous generations?” What emerged were more questions, conversations, and discoveries. The resulting audio stories share a layered quilt of myth and memory from the perspective of Bay Area teens in 2016. Exploring their own family narratives allowed these stu...

What We Hold: Teens reflect on how memories extend over generations It started with a question: “What do we inherit, embody, and echo from previous generations?” What emerged were more questions, conversations, and discoveries. The resulting audio stories share a layered quilt of myth and memory from the perspective of Bay Area teens in 2016. Exploring their own family narratives allowed these stu...

What We Hold: Teens reflect on how memories extend over generations It started with a question: “What do we inherit, embody, and echo from previous generations?” What emerged were more questions, conversations, and discoveries. The resulting audio stories share a layered quilt of myth and memory from the perspective of Bay Area teens in 2016. Exploring their own family narratives allowed these stu...

What We Hold: Teens reflect on how memories extend over generations It started with a question: “What do we inherit, embody, and echo from previous generations?” What emerged were more questions, conversations, and discoveries. The resulting audio stories share a layered quilt of myth and memory from the perspective of Bay Area teens in 2016. Exploring their own family narratives allowed these stu...

What We Hold: Teens reflect on how memories extend over generations It started with a question: “What do we inherit, embody, and echo from previous generations?” What emerged were more questions, conversations, and discoveries. The resulting audio stories share a layered quilt of myth and memory from the perspective of Bay Area teens in 2016. Exploring their own family narratives allowed these stu...

What We Hold: Teens reflect on how memories extend over generations It started with a question: “What do we inherit, embody, and echo from previous generations?” What emerged were more questions, conversations, and discoveries. The resulting audio stories share a layered quilt of myth and memory from the perspective of Bay Area teens in 2016. Exploring their own family narratives allowed these stu...