Streicker Center
COVID-19 UPDATE
During these difficult times, we all need to keep up our spirits with joy, laughter and new ideas. We invite you to join us to meet your favorite actors, authors, playwrights, musicians and chefs – all virtually.
To register for an upcoming webinar, visit our upcoming events page. And if you miss an event, don’t worry! Recordings of past events are (almost!) always posted online. Just visit the past recording page.
The Temple Emanu-El Streicker Center
Politics, comedy, food, books, study, music, debate, theater: Engaging our community in the full richness of Jewish tradition.
Once upon a time, in the far away land of Babylon, a young man named Abram smashed the idols in his fathers shop, moved to Canaan… and gave birth to monotheism and the Jewish people.
5,780 years later, the Jewish narrative is filled with visionaries and innovators, scholars and mystics, entrepreneurs, Mavericks, farmers, shopkeepers and entertainers who turned a small band of nomads into a multi national community. It is a story like no other, of endurance spinning millennia, ingenuity in the face of oppression, grief relieved by humor, study, debate, noble work and, ultimately, the triumph of a nation that refused to fade into history.
The Temple Emanu-El Streicker Center celebrates the triumph, the culture and community that have evolved over the ages – and evolve still – from Beersheba to Brooklyn and Austria to Argentina. We do so by exploring our history and our values, honoring the men and women who make us proud and by coming together as a community.
This is our heritage. This is Judaism. This is the Temple Emanu-El Streicker Center.
I hope you will join us often.
Dr. Gady Levy
Executive Director
View Upcoming Online Programs Here
Events
Streicker attracts some of the most renowned figures in American politics, art, law and entertainment. So spend an evening with a president or secretary of state, or serve on the jury at a mock trial of the Biblical Noah, with Alan Dershowitz serving as prosecutor. Meet your favorite author, debate the most challenging issues of our day with prominent journalists, enjoy fantastic music and sample how today’s chefs are reimagining your favorite foods. New ideas. Unique performances. The cutting edge of Jewish culture.
Classes
At Streicker, we’ve brought the cheder out of the shtetl and into the 21st century. At our Skirball Academy, you can explore the sublime, sample the unusual and brush up on the practical. Held in the afternoons and evenings, classes are taught by expert authors, professors and learned rabbinical scholars.
Trips
Traveling with the Streicker Center doesn’t just offer fascinating landscapes and landmarks, fine hotels, great food and terrific guides. Each of our journeys is also carefully designed to provide you with unique insight into Jewish history and/or life, the opportunity to meet with members of the local community and an experience in the warmth of the Streicker Center family. We’ve already explored Jewish Cuba and Morocco, the culinary scene in Israel, Jewish history in Italy and joined the March of the Living in Poland and Israel. You are invited to join us on our next adventure.
