Building jewish bridges. Welcome. Thank you. Good morning. Lets just jump in and ask you what is house judaica and what does it it do . First and foremost its an Independent School non denominational. Thoughtful ideas, challenging ideas and providing dialog for adults in the bay area for jews and non jews. The world house judaica is not english word. Fred rosenbaum our founding director was a graduate student at u. C. Bshgly and he was studying the lair house had it emerged in germany in the interwar period between world war i and world war ii. The word lair house is german for learning house which is basically he brew for madrash where people come and thern from each other and talk to each other and he was inspired looking at the lair house that was formed for adults in germany to learn about jewish resist rooe, jewish culture, floss nooe. Without religious denomination and without pro propoening. It was reborn in berkley 1974. Wonderful. And john well come back to more about house ju