Join our monthly Women’s Talmud Study and learn some of the key Talmudic sugyot (topics or discussions). No advanced preparation is required, and we learn everything with an English translation together in class. If you’re curious about the Talmud and eager to learn some classic Talmudic stories and passages, this class is for you! Sessions
Join our community in exploring the themes of the season, weekly Torah reading, and holidays. Using the Jewish Studio Process, we integrate spiritual grounding, text study, and creative process (using any materials you have at home to explore and play). This is not just for artists! We use materials to deepen our understanding and experience
Join our weekly reading and discussion book club, as we make our way through the late Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks’ most recently published book of essays, “Studies in Spirituality.” In the words of the publisher, “We find Rabbi Sacks reading the biblical narrative with profound sensitivity to the depths of the human condition. He inspires
In this six-session class, taught by Maria Pulzetti and Rabbi Adam Zeff, we will consider how Jewish law and American law address and affect people with disabilities, including physical disabilities, intellectual disabilities, and mental illness. We will study ways in which the law treats everyone equally and ways in which legal systems include accommodations for
Are you juggling a young family, work, Covid restrictions, and/or distant support networks? Connect with early childhood professionals and parents for ideas, activities, strategies, and just sharing. Nini Engel is a newly-retired school psychologist who worked with preschool to fourth-grade students and families. She is a parent of three grown daughters. She's particularly interested in emotional
One of the ways the Hebrew word shalvah can be defined is "equanimity." Equanimity is being aware of what's happening, challenges and all, and meeting it with open awareness. Equanimity is maintaining your center while things are uncertain and unstable. We cultivate equanimity in meditation by sitting and returning to open awareness of all we are feeling
For chanters, meditators, and those who love, need, and seek the Silence within. Facilitated by Leah Weisman. PLEASE NOTE: The online and in-person schedule of services and programs as well as access links are not posted here. Rather, daily and weekly schedules with links are emailed to our member listserv. If you are not a
POWER: How To Get Involved! with Lilah Saber & POWER Campaign Leaders sponsored by Tikkun Olam@GJC GJC is PROUD TO BE A MEMBER OF POWER INTERFAITH! Wondering What POWER’s Doing These Days? POWER launched in 2011 with a bold moral vision to confront injustice by bringing together thousands of Philadelphians across lines of race, class, neighborhood
Take a quick break in the middle of your day to learn Mishnah, a central rabbinic text, with Rabbi Zeff. We will learn about what Mishnah is, how it works, and delve into some key mishnaic texts together. If you are curious about rabbinic text but have not studied any before, this class is for
When the Land Took its Rest: An Introduction to Shmita Join us for this 3 part exploration of how Shmita holds enormous promise for society, the economy, and the environment. We will unpack the biblical understanding of farming, discover what the Shmita year is and how it relates to a wider blueprint that our tradition
