Adult Education

Join our continuing quest for a deeper understanding of Judaism with adult education courses that range from Jewish laws and customs to biblical and rabbinic text-study sessions.  Daytime and evening classes are taught by Rabbi Malik, congregants, and other teachers, including professors of Jewish Studies at Haverford College and the University of Pennsylvania.

This is a small sampling of classes that we have offered over the past few years:

• Biblical Studies of Family Conflict
• Book of Judges:  A Close Reading of Shoftim
• Holocaust Education
• Issues Impacting the Jewish Community in the Election
• Judaism and Other Cultures: Confluence or Confrontation?                                                         (part of Jewish History Mini-Series)
• Kosher Death:  Jewish Traditions About Dying, Death & Mourning
• Kosher Living
• Preparing for Awe:  High Holidays Spiritual Writing Workshop
• Read Hebrew America
• Searching for Meaning in Hebrew Prayer:                                                                                  Siddur Geography, Choreography & Vocabulary
• The Jewish Class of "Why?" "What?" & "How?"
• Women's League Days of Study:  The Five Megillot

We also offer ongoing courses and annual educations programs, including

• Learners' Minyan
• Scholar-in-Residence Shabbat
• Shabbat Mincha "Beer & Shmear" and Halacha Shiur
• Shabbat morning Torah study
• Monthly Study Session & Challah-Making with the Rabbi
  
• Talmud Shiurim & Siyum
• Tikkun Leyl Shavuot

Stay tuned for our 2010-2011 course listings!

SJCC Bnai Aaron serves all of the communities of the Main Line Philadelphia suburbs and Delaware County, including Wynnewood, Ardmore, Havertown, Haverford, Newtown Square, Broomall, Radnor, Upper Darby, Springfield, Bala Cynwyd, Bryn Mawr, Rosemont, Villanova, St. David’s, Wayne, Devon, Berwyn, Media, Wallingford and Swarthmore.