View our most current events here in video format. See our BEYOND THE CLASSROOM page to view a full list of our events from JSSJ history.
Thursday, September 22, 2016 l 6:30 p.m. l USF Main Campus, Fromm Hall, Maraschi Room Layering theater, film, poetry, prayer and Hip Hop, Chochenyo and Karkin Ohlone activist Corrina Gould and educator-artist-activist Ariel Luckey will jointly perform connections between sacred… Continue Reading
Thursday, April 14, 2016 l 6:30 p.p. l USF Main Campus, Fromm Hall, Berman Room Founded in 2005, Combatants for Peace is made up of former Palestinian militants and Jewish Israeli soldiers leading a nonviolent, bi-national movement against the occupation… Continue Reading
Sunday, April 10, 2016 l 7 p.m. l JCCSF, 3200 California St., San Francisco For the sixth annual Social Justice Lecture we will be joined by Dr. Chen Alon – actor, facilitator, theater director, and teacher – who has been… Continue Reading
Thursday, October 29, 2015 l 6:30 p.m. l USF Main Campus, Fromm Hall, Maraschi Room and Xavier Room Can a language save your life? Yes it can, even an ancient one that emerged in the 15th century. Saved by Language… Continue Reading
Thursday, October 15, 2015 l 6:30 p.m. l USF Main Campus, Fromm Hall, Maraschi Room The movie Little White Lie tells Lacey Schwartz’s story of growing up in a typical upper-middle-class Ashkenazi Jewish household in Woodstock, NY, with loving parents… Continue Reading
Thursday, October 1, 2015 l 6:30 p.m. l USF Main Campus, Fromm Hall, Maraschi Room Layering theater, dance, spoken word, and an original score inspired by Hip Hop, Klezmer, and Mexican folk music, Amnesia tells the story of a young… Continue Reading
Thursday, September 17, 2015 l 6:30 p.m. l USF Main Campus, Fromm Hall, Maraschi Room Growing up in the cultural diversity of New York City, artist Vanessa Hidary’s experiences as a Sephardic Jew with close friends from different ethnic and… Continue Reading
Sunday, February 4, 2015 l 7 p.m. l JCCSF, 3200 California St., San Francisco For the fifth annual Social Justice Lecture Jerusalem’s Rabbi Andrew Sacks, a long-time activist at the forefront of human rights struggles in Israel and Palestine, working… Continue Reading
Thursday, October 9, 2014 l 5 p.m. l USF Main Campus, Fromm Hall, Maraschi Room Using the two creation-of-humanity narratives in Genesis and her personal efforts to understand the genesis of her own gender, Joy Ladin will lead us through… Continue Reading
Tuesday, September 30, 2014 l 5 p.m. l USF Main Campus, Fromm Hall, Berman Room A candid discussion of race, class, gender and beyond led by renowned African-American Jewish writer and artist Rebecca Walker. Join us for an up close… Continue Reading
