Kids Time
Kaiserman JCC • 45 Haverford Road • Wynnewood, PA 19096
610-896-7770, Ext. 121 • kidstime@phillyjcc.com • phillyjcc.com
After-school enrichment program that is designed to stimulate children’s physi-
cal and mental needs while enhancing self-esteem. Programs include home-
work help, sports classes, art and more. Transportation is available from area
schools. When the Lower Merion School District is closed, the Kaiserman JCC
also offers a range of special J-Day programs to accommodate the needs of
working families.

Makom Community
2125 Chestnut Street • Philadelphia, PA 19103 • 484-278-1335
beverly@makomcommunity.org • makomcommunity.org
Provides daily, after-school care and Jewish education to children, ages 4 to 11.

In the pilot year, the program will be enrolling students in pre-kindergarten
through second grade. In the future, Makom will serve students in pre-kinder-
garten through fifth grade. Each student’s learning is project-based and child-
led. Learning is immersive and applied daily in a communal setting. Families
will be invited to stay for Shabbat celebrations on Friday. Students prepare food
and learn to share through singing, dancing and eating together.

OTHER YOUTH
EDUCATION PROGRAMS
Chabad/Lubavitch Centers
Many local Chabad/Lubavitch Centers have Youth Education
Programs/Hebrew School programs. Please find a list of Chabad/Lubavitch
Centers on page 88.

Community Torah Center of Bucks County
944 Second Street Pike • Richboro, PA 18954
215-364-1160 • Fax: 267-284-1267
suri@jewishbucks.org • JewishBucks.org
Jewish Children’s Folkshul of Greater Philadelphia
P.O. Box 17 • Wyncote, PA 19095
215-248-1550 • Folkshul@folkshul.org • folkshul.org
Offers children, kindergarten through ninth grade, a 21⁄2-hour program on
Sundays within a secular, humanistic framework. Serves families who identify
with Jewish values and culture. Curriculum includes Jewish holidays and his-
tory, Jewish cooking, drama and literature. Also offers a Bar/Bat Mitzvah pro-
gram and adult-education classes. Meets at Springside Chestnut Hill Academy,
8000 Cherokee Street • Philadelphia, PA 19118
Jewish Community High School of Gratz College
Mandell Education Campus
7605 Old York Road • Melrose Park, PA 19027
215-635-7300, Ext. 5 • Fax: 215-635-7320 • gratz.edu/jchs
Program for 8th to 12th graders from all backgrounds who want to meet
with Jewish friends and have the opportunity to learn and grow Jewishly.

Weekly, monthly and online opportunities as well as some for college credit.

Mekom Torah High School
P.O. Box 178 • Swarthmore, PA 19081 • 610-368-4065
helen@mekomtorah.org • mekomtorah.org
A community-based Jewish learning project. It includes a cross-denominational
high school program and an array of adult study options. Programs are offered
in Delaware County and Center City.

COLLEGES Gratz College
Mandell Education Campus
7605 Old York Road • Melrose Park, PA 19027
215-635-7300 or 1-800-475-4635 • Fax: 215-635-7399
admissions@gratz.edu • gratz.edu
Pluralistic college of Jewish studies online and on campus. Offers graduate
degrees and certificates in Jewish Studies, Jewish Education, Jewish Communal
Service, Nonprofit Management, Holocaust and Genocide Studies, and Jewish-
Christian studies. Credit and noncredit courses in Hebrew, Yiddish, Jewish his-
tory, Jewish thought, Jewish literature, modern Israel and more. Extensive
library holdings, music library and Holocaust Oral History Archive. Also offers
adult Jewish learning programs and lectures.

Jewish Studies Program
University of Pennsylvania School of Arts and Sciences
711 Williams Hall • 255 South 36th Street • Philadelphia, PA 19104
215-898-6654 • Fax: 215-573-6026
jsp-info@sas.upenn.edu • ccat.sas.upenn.edu/jwst
Offers a broad range of fields in Jewish studies, including the Hebrew Bible, bib-
lical archaeology, Hellenistic and rabbinic literature, the history of biblical inter-
pretation, Jewish social and intellectual history from the ancient to modern
periods, Jewish folklore and sociology, Hebrew and Yiddish language and litera-
ture, and Israel studies.

Feinstein Center for American Jewish History
Temple University • 916 Gladfelter Hall
1115 West Berks Street • Philadelphia, PA 19122
215-204-9553 • Fax: 215-204-5891
feinsteincenter@temple.edu • www.cla.temple.edu/feinsteincenter
Promotes the study of the American Jewish experience in America, and spon-
sors conferences, symposia, fellowships, publications and public events devoted
to understanding the dimensions of American Jewish experience in the U.S.

The center is part of Temple University’s Department of History in the College
of Liberal Arts.

Reconstructionist Rabbinical College
1299 Church Road • Wyncote, PA 19095
215-576-0800 • Fax: 215-576-6143 • info@rrc.edu • rrc.edu
Rabbinical training institute of the Reconstructionist movement of Judaism.

Offers studies in Judaism as an evolving religious civilization. Trains rabbis who
bring ancient wisdom into the contemporary world.

ADULT AND FAMILY
EDUCATION Aish of Philadelphia
50 Montgomery Avenue • Bala Cynwyd, PA 19004
610-668-9600 • phila@aish.com • aishphila.com
Provides educational programs for Jews of all backgrounds.

Programs include Friday-night services, weekly classes, women’s division, High
Holiday services, seminars, and teen and singles events.

ALEPH: Alliance for Jewish Renewal
General Administrative Office
7000 Lincoln Drive, #B2 • Philadelphia, PA 19119
215-247-9700 • Fax: 215-247-9703
lynda@aleph.org • aleph.org
International, transdenominational, spiritual and activist organization. A hub
for retreats, training programs, distance-learning classes, publications and refer-
rals to local Jewish Renewal communities.

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