When the pandemic cut hours at her new dream job at Chez Panisse, Sara Eisen launched her babka business. Eisen is mainly keeping it traditional, with cinnamon and chocolate — using two local brands, Guittard and Tcho — but for Hanukkah 2020, she made a black sesame babka for Chez...
This kosher grocery store features a butcher counter, sizable wine cellar, and a (new - Spring 2020) cafe serving deli fare. Menu includes pastrami, pulled brisket, house-made corned beef, pickles, and more.
According to an article by Alix Wall in the 6/26/20 issue of "J. The Jewish News of Northern California," Hella Bagels is a home-based startup in Oakland, where chef-owner Blake Hunter can make only 100 bagels at a time, which he does Sunday mornings. Hunter delivers in the East Bay...
Modern California-Israeli food, and also rugelach and chocolate babka. (Also halva/pistachio babka, but that’s not so Ashkenazi)
Chancellor Jackman Professor of the Arts, Department for the Study of Religion, University of Toronto. Formerly Koret Professor of Jewish Culture at the Graduate Theological Union. Author, A Marriage Made in Heaven: The Sexual Politics of Hebrew and Yiddish and Faithful Renderings: Jewish-Christian Difference and the Politics of Translation.
Yiddish conversation group meets Mondays 10:30-11:30am, except holidays. No charge. Kum un redt a bisl Yidish mit unz. Come join us as we shmues. Suspended during pandemic.
This six-member band formed in 2013. The band studies music by ear, learning melodies in the Ashkenazi traditions of North Eastern Europe with a distinctly modern sensibility. A strong rhythmic brass band feel paired with a joyful and bittersweet melodic sensibility.
Lectures on East European Jewish music, the klezmer revival, Jewish music revival in Poland, and on the importance of culture in Jewish life. Former Director, Jewish Music Festival. Taught classes/workshops in Jewish world music at Midrasha and KlezKanada. Lectured at Hadassah, Congregation Beth El, Temple Isaiah.
Klezmer music & Yiddish songs for weddings, parties, street marches, bar/bas mitsveh celebrations, simkhehs of all sorts. Leader Jeanette Lewicki
Professor (retired), Department of Near Eastern Studies, U.C. Berkeley.
Klezmer clarinetist with the Klezmorim and the New Klezmer Trio.
Lectures on Russian and East European Jewish history. Daniel E. Koshland Professor in Jewish Culture and History, Stanford University
Band for adults and teens rehearses twice monthly on Tuesday evenings. Directed by Rabbi Stuart Kelman.
Vocolot, led by Linda Hirschhorn, brings a joyous fusion of folk, jazz and cantorial vocal traditions into the contemporary a cappella world. Their music, rooted in universal heart, social conscience and Jewish soul, communicates a powerful vision of world peace and reconciliation. Vocolot sings in English, Hebrew, Ladino, Yiddish, and...
Performers, Yiddish Choruses, Singers & Song Leaders / East Bay
