Temple Emanu-El’s Adult Ed Academy

Taught by Rabbi Samuel M. Cohon

More advanced than Basic Judaism, this is a year-long study of the ideas, practices, and connections that make Judaism a vital and evolving religion today.  As a comprehensive exploration of the reality of today's Judaism, Intermediate Judaism focuses on the great ideas and trends of modern and contemporary Judaism: the origins and development of Reform, Conservative, and Modern Orthodox Judaism, Reconstructionist ideas, and other movements within modern Judaism.  This course will focus on themes of current importance and debate.

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Taught by Rabbi Jason Holtz

This year-long class presents a thematic introduction to Jewish ideas, texts, theology, history, and culture taught in an interactive and participatory discussion style.  Learn all the basics, exploring the most important texts of Jewish tradition: Torah, Prophets, Writings, Mishnah, Gemara, Midrash, Codes, Philosophy, and Liturgy.  This class is a prerequisite for the Adult B'nai Mitzvah program, Adult Confirmation, and for all conversion students.  Course fees include textbook.

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This session was a combined class, taught by Rabbi Samuel M. Cohon.

Basic Judaism, taught by Rabbi Jason Holtz

This year-long class presents a thematic introduction to Jewish ideas, texts, theology, history, and culture taught in an interactive and participatory discussion style.  Learn all the basics, exploring the most important texts of Jewish tradition: Torah, Prophets, Writings, Mishnah, Gemara, Midrash, Codes, Philosophy, and Liturgy.  This class is a prerequisite for the Adult B'nai Mitzvah program, Adult Confirmation, and for all conversion students.  Course fees include textbook.

Intermediate Judaism, taught by Rabbi Samuel M. Cohon

More advanced than Basic Judaism, this is a year-long study of the ideas, practices, and connections that make Judaism a vital and evolving religion today.  As a comprehensive exploration of the reality of today's Judaism, Intermediate Judaism focuses on the great ideas and trends of modern and contemporary Judaism: the origins and development of Reform, Conservative, and Modern Orthodox Judaism, Reconstructionist ideas, and other movements within modern Judaism.  This course will focus on themes of current importance and debate.

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Taught by Rabbi Jason Holtz

This session was taught by Chava Gal-Or.

The Prophets is the second of three sections of the Hebrew Bible.  Beginning with Joshua, The Prophetsdetails the Israelites crossing the Jordan River and entering into the Promised Land.  From there, we learn about Biblical Israel, its people, its judges, its kings, and its prophets.  This will be an ongoing class that aims to read The Prophets in its entirety.  Please bring a copy of the Hebrew Bible with you to each session.

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Taught by Kelly Feinstein-Johnson, Ph.D.

This is a course that is half history course, half book club.  The class will read selections from four memoirs, written by women at important points in European history.  These works get at both the larger historical trends and the very unique ways in which women experienced them.  This approach helps us give voice to the stories of women, experiences that are often lost in larger narratives of both Jewish and general European history.

We will meet five times total: the first class will provide some background on each author and her historical period, and the subsequent meetings will discussthe memoirs of Glukel of Hameln (meeting 2), Rahel Varnhagen (meeting 3), Fanny Lewald (meeting 4), and Etty Hilsum (meeting 5).

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Taught by Rabbi Jason Holtz

This session was taught by Chava Gal-Or.

This year-long class presents a thematic introduction to Jewish ideas, texts, theology, history, and culture taught in an interactive and participatory discussion style.  Learn all the basics, exploring the most important texts of Jewish tradition: Torah, Prophets, Writings, Mishnah, Gemara, Midrash, Codes, Philosophy, and Liturgy.  This class is a prerequisite for the Adult B'nai Mitzvah program, Adult Confirmation, and for all conversion students.  Course fees include textbook.

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Taught by Rabbi Jason Holtz

The Prophets is the second of three sections of the Hebrew Bible.  Beginning with Joshua, The Prophetsdetails the Israelites crossing the Jordan River and entering into the Promised Land.  From there, we learn about Biblical Israel, its people, its judges, its kings, and its prophets.  This will be an ongoing class that aims to read The Prophets in its entirety.  Please bring a copy of the Hebrew Bible with you to each session.

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Taught by Kelly Feinstein-Johnson, Ph.D.

This is a course that is half history course, half book club.  The class will read selections from four memoirs, written by women at important points in European history.  These works get at both the larger historical trends and the very unique ways in which women experienced them.  This approach helps us give voice to the stories of women, experiences that are often lost in larger narratives of both Jewish and general European history.

We will meet five times total: the first class will provide some background on each author and her historical period, and the subsequent meetings will discussthe memoirs of Glukel of Hameln (meeting 2), Rahel Varnhagen (meeting 3), Fanny Lewald (meeting 4), and Etty Hilsum (meeting 5).

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Taught by Rabbi Jason Holtz

This year-long class presents a thematic introduction to Jewish ideas, texts, theology, history, and culture taught in an interactive and participatory discussion style.  Learn all the basics, exploring the most important texts of Jewish tradition: Torah, Prophets, Writings, Mishnah, Gemara, Midrash, Codes, Philosophy, and Liturgy.  This class is a prerequisite for the Adult B'nai Mitzvah program, Adult Confirmation, and for all conversion students.  Course fees include textbook.

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Taught by Rabbi Samuel M. Cohon

More advanced than Basic Judaism, this is a year-long study of the ideas, practices, and connections that make Judaism a vital and evolving religion today.  As a comprehensive exploration of the reality of today's Judaism, Intermediate Judaism focuses on the great ideas and trends of modern and contemporary Judaism: the origins and development of Reform, Conservative, and Modern Orthodox Judaism, Reconstructionist ideas, and other movements within modern Judaism.  This course will focus on themes of current importance and debate.

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