Bess Kalb: Nobody Will Tell You This But Me

Jewish Book Council author Bess Kalb joins us to share anecdotes from her memoir, Nobody Will Tell You This But Me: A true (as told by me) story. Even after she left home for Hollywood, Emmy-nominated TV writer Bess Kalb saved every voicemail her grandmother Bobby Bell ever left her. In this debut memoir, Bobby is […]

RebBEE in Res: “Bringing Our Whole Selves to… The Table” with Rabbi Micah

via Zoom CA

So much of the Jewish (and Jewish-adjacent) story can be told through foods. The things that we serve and eat can place us in the context of history, time, and place – or bring us together across difference. For many of us, they can also raise questions of authenticity. Together we will cook a (savory) Egyptian […]

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ReBEE in Res: “Who are the ‘right’ people?” with Rabbi Mira

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“Well, for instance, you want to be seen eating lunch/davening/studying with the right people!? So who are the right people? Well, those with Yichus/יחוס.” While the word originated in Hebrew, it is generally used to signify genealogy, lineage, taking into account the accomplishments of forbearers and current descendants in scholarship and religious observance. Come and […]

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Bruce Feiler: Life Is in the Transitions

Bruce Feiler’s book, LIFE IS IN THE TRANSITIONS: Mastering Change at Any Age, describes his journey across America, collecting life stories, exploring how we can navigate the number of life transitions with greater purpose and skill. Bruce joins us to share about his book. Presented in partnership with the San Diego Jewish Teen Initiative.

RebBEE in Res: “The Centrality of Narrative and Storytelling in Living Jewishly” with Rabbi Mira

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Foundational narratives like those found in Oral and Written Torah clarify the fundamental existence of our people around meaningful motifs, values, rights, and responsibilities. How has the impulse that led Jews to recount and to document events given future generations access to what could have been forgotten? Whenever and wherever civil behavior toward Jews have […]

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RebBEE in Res: “‘For Us By Us’ Spaces by Jews of Color” with Rabbi Mira

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As the summer morphs into the month of Elul just before the High Holidays, I will go in and out of the revolving door of Heshbon Nefesh (the accounting of the soul). My fingers will knuckle down on the memory of unyielding bars on gates that have shut me out of Jewish treasures because of […]

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