The JCC of the East Bay is teaming up with Kevah and Urban Adamah to present a Global Day of Jewish Learning program this weekend.
The discussion about land use and conservancy is titled “Shmita for the rest of us: Embracing the biblical sabbatical year in the diaspora.” The free event is scheduled for 7 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 16 at the JCC, 1414 Walnut St., Berkeley. For more information, visit www.bit.ly/global-jcceb.
Other events can be found at www.theglobalday.org.
The annual Global Day of Jewish Learning is a 5-year-old project of the Aleph Society, which supports the work of the talmudic scholar Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz. This year’s theme is “Heroes and Villains, Saints and Fools: The People in the Book.” Last year, 420 communities in more than 35 countries participated.
Additionally, there is an online component called 24×24, with rabbis, scholars, writers and artists chatting around the clock via Google Hangout. Sarah Lefton, the founding director of G-dcast in San Francisco, and Rabbi Peretz Wolf-Prusan, senior educator at Lehrhaus Judaica in Berkeley, are scheduled to participate this year.