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For the second (and we hope final) year, we’re bringing you a list of virtual seders happening around the Bay Area, plus a few socially distanced outdoor seders. Celebrate the Exodus with the wider Jewish community from your own home. Next year, in person!
East Bay
Saturday, March 27
VIRTUAL “Glitter Gathering” Kehilla Community Synagogue’s director of youth programs, Rabbi Gray Myrseth, leads a gathering for people in their 20s and 30s, focusing on themes of liberation and solidarity. 6-7:30 p.m. Free, with suggested donation, with registration.
VIRTUAL First-night seder Presented by Aquarian Minyan. 6 p.m. Suggested donation $15 for members, $20 for nonmembers, with registration.
Among Purim’s traditions, perhaps the most well known is the Purim spiel, a theatrical retelling of the Book of Esther that can be pointed, satirical, parodic or just downright silly, depending on the community and the year.
Often, Purim spiels use the story of Esther and Haman as a way of commenting on or joking about current events and the state of the world.
So, almost one year into the pandemic and only a month and a half since a violent insurrection at the Capitol, what are we ready to laugh about?
For performer and educator Kiki Lipsett, who runs an annual politically charged spiel in the East Bay called “Irreverently Yours, The Shushan Queens,” some of last year’s jokes would work just as well as this year. Better, even.
Honors & Awards
Sheri Greenawald
Sheri Greenawald has been awarded the San Francisco Opera Medal in recognition of years of service. She made her debut with S.F. Opera in 1978 and went on to play a number of leading roles in the company. Since 2002, Greenawald, who is retiring this month, has been the S.F. Opera Center director and the S.F.-based Merola Opera program artistic director. “On Sunday, Nov. 11, 1978, a house debut was made by a young Marzelline in ‘Fidelio,’” Matthew Shilvock, the opera’s general director, said in a press release. “On that day a journey began that would encompass many roles on the War Memorial stage and a 20-year tenure leading two of the greatest opera training programs in the world. I wonder what that young Marzelline, Sheri Greenawald, would have said at that time if you had told her that 42 years later she would have made one of the most indelible impacts in the history of this Company.” The San Francisco Opera Medal is awarded “in r
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