Exploring Traditionally Radical Talmud with SVARA (Open Beit Midrash)
Tuesdays, April 6, 13 & 20 7:00-9:00 PM on Zoom Laynie Soloman, SVARA SVARA Faculty Member Laynie Soloman will teach a 3-session online bet midrash where will we will dig
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Learning Opportunities
Honoring What We Lost: Jewish Federation’s Holocaust Memorial Virtual Program
Jewish Federation of Greater Philadelphia presents Holocaust Remembrance Ceremony Sunday, April 11 at 1:00 PM Join the Jewish Federation of Greater Philadelphia to commemorate the six million Jews who perished
Pirkei Avot Community Study with members of the GJC community
Join our community for a longstanding tradition (across the world and in our own GJC community) of studying Pirkei Avot in the weeks between Passover and Shavuot. Learning one chapter each week, we will guide each other through the whole masechet (tractate).
People of the Book
GJC’s Jewish book reading group meets monthly, reading and discussing fiction and nonfiction books of Jewish interest written mostly (but not solely) by Jewish writers and chosen by the group.
The Ten Commandments Of Managing Our Evolving Digital Selves Dialogue with Rabbi Dr. Jeffrey Schein
We live in a highly digital Age. At no time has the relationship between Judaism and Technology been all at once so rich, complex, enriching, and problematic. Based on a
Music as an Intimate Portrait of Israeli Society with David Peretz
The GJC Men's Club and Israel Programming at GJC, in coordination with the Jewish Federation of Greater Philadelphia and Jewish Agency for Israel's Partnership Together (also known as P2G) are
Charry Service: Bat Mitzvah of Levanah Cohen
Mazal tov to Levanah Cohen, daughter of Rabbi Debrah Cohen, on becoming Bat Mitzvah! Rabbi Zeff will be leading a service from the Charry Sanctuary this week with Shabbat prayers
Reading & Writing Talmud with a Queer, Anti-racist, Feminist in the 21st Century (Open Beit Midrash)
Tuesdays, April 27, May 4 & May 11 7:00-8:30 PM on Zoom Dr. Gwynn Kessler We do not passively read texts but actively meet them with our whole selves: our
Paving the Omer Path with Poetry
8:00 - 9:15 PM on Mondays, March 29 - May 10 Each year many of us use the counting of the omer (marking each day between Passover and Shavuot) as
Biblical Hebrew IV
1:00 - 2:00 PM on Wednesdays, May 5 - June 23 We will continue with Biblical Hebrew learning, moving onto the book “Bet is for Bereshit.” The class will begin