ADULT AND FAMILY EDUCATION
Aish Chaim
345 Montgomery Ave. • P.O. Box 834 • Bala Cynwyd, PA 19004
913-481-5842 • BinyominDavis@gmail.com • aishchaim.com/
Provides educational programs for Jews of all backgrounds. Programs include
Friday Night services, weekly classes, women’s division, High Holiday services,
seminars, teen and singles events.

ALEPH: Alliance for Jewish Renewal
P.O. Box 35118 • Philadelphia, PA 19128
215-247-9700 • Fax: 215-247-9703 • soojim@aleph.org • aleph.org
Transdenominational, spirituality and Tikkun Olam-focused Jewish learning
organization. Offers ordination program for rabbinic, cantorial, spiritual
direction and rabbinic pastors. For clergy and lay learners offers retreats,
training programs, distance-learning classes, publications and referrals to
local Jewish Renewal communities.

Beiteinu P.O. Box 231 • Haverford, PA 19041 • 484-432-0931 or 215-309-2883
rabbi@beiteinu.org • beiteinu.org
A non-denominational community that encourages study, prayer and service
to the Jewish community and to all those who wish to learn Jewish teaching.

Provides a meaningful experience, in a non-judgmental and caring environ-
ment along with a special sense of belonging, for all people who support Jewish
life. Has learning groups for all ages in various parts of the city (Lafayette Hill,
Lansdale, Morristown NJ) and private classes.

Bensalem Jewish Kollel and Outreach Center
Kehillas B’nai Shalom • 2446 Bristol Road • Bensalem, PA 19020
215-752-5032 • Fax: 215-752-2340
Moshe@bensalemoutreach.org • bensalemoutreach.org
Educational center for Jewish studies for Jews of all backgrounds. Programs of
special interest to women are also offered.

Bucks County Hebrew School — A Family Partnership Program in
which parents can study in a simultaneous class as their children. Parents
who take advantage of this opportunity can receive almost complete
scholarships to cover the cost of their childrens’ Hebrew school
education. No synagogue membership required.

Reconstructionist Rabbinical College
1299 Church Road • Wyncote, PA 19095
215-576-0800 • Fax: 215-576-6143 • info@rrc.edu • rrc.edu
Offers high-level courses in Jewish history, thought, text and practice for
rabbinical students, Jewish professionals and interested lay people.

Community Torah Center of Bucks County
944 Second St. Pike, Front Building • Richboro, PA 18954
215-485-5755 • Fax: 267-284-1267 • rabbi@jewishbucks.org • JewishBucks.org
An organization created to give Jews from all backgrounds and affiliations the
opportunity to learn and experience Jewish life. Offers programs for every age
group, from young children and adolescents through adults.

Congregation Beth Solomon — CBS Community Center
198 Tomlinson Road • Philadelphia, PA 19116
215-671-1981 • Fax: 215-671-8007 • cbscommunitycenter.com
Educational opportunities for all ages, camps and a kollel for adult education.

Also fosters outreach to the Russian immigrant community.

Gratz College Adult Jewish Learning
7605 Old York Road • Melrose Park, PA 19027
215-635-7300, ext. 182 • Fax: 215-635-7399 • lcohen@gratz.edu • gratz.edu
Offers courses for adults in the community who enjoy learning with instructors
who are experts in their fields. Subjects include history: literature; theology,
ethics, Torah and ancient texts Israel and the Middle E.; Jewish music, art and
film and more. Also offers Hebrew and Yiddish language classes for all levels.

Classes are located in Melrose Park and Center City. Distinguished Scholar
Lectures are open to the community (including the Shusterman and Stern
community lectures), continuing legal education, as well as trips, films and
programs. Monthly “Lunch and Learns” round out the offerings. Also:
One Book, One Jewish Community (OBOJC) — Connecting people one book at
a time. Community-wide Jewish literacy program. Each year, Gratz College
develops resource materials about the selected book, and partners with syna-
gogues and agencies that adopt OBOJC as a vehicle for discussing, and studying
and celebrating the book, as well as the values and issues raised in it.

Herbert D. Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies
at the University of Pennsylvania
420 Walnut St. • Philadelphia, PA 19106 • 215-746-1290 • Fax: 215-238-1540
sas-katzcenter@sas.upenn.edu • katz.sas.upenn.edu
Post-doctoral research center whose studies concentrate on Jewish civilization
in all its historical and cultural manifestations. The Center’s fellows, who are
visiting scholars from around the globe, address local congregations and schools
with talks and lectures about their areas of expertise.

Institute for Jewish Ethics
215-782-8878 • IJE@IJEthics.org • IJEthics.org
Offers classes, seminars and guidance on Jewish ethics and an outlook for
living. Open to people of all backgrounds. PA accredited provider of
Continuing Legal Education.

OpenDor Media
888-515-5292 • opendormedia.org
Creates and distributes innovative feature films and film-based educational
programs with the goal of making young Jews feel proud of being Jewish and
connected to Israel.

Jewish Children’s Folkshul and Adult Community
P.O. Box 17 • Wyncote, PA 19095 • 215-248-1550
Meets at Springside Chestnut Hill Academy • 8000 Cherokee St. • Philadelphia,
PA 19118
folkshul@folkshul.org • folkshul.org
An inclusive, secular, humanistic, life-long engaged learning community that
invites all who identify as Jewish and/or who choose to learn and participate in
its range of Jewish inspired programs. The curriculum includes topics such as:
Jewish holidays, social action/justice, life cycles, ethics, history, music, dance,
and literature for all ages. Offers weekly Sunday morning classroom programs
for kindergarten through ninth grade students and monthly Sunday Fundays
programs for pre-schoolers and their families. Offers a personalized student-
driven Bar/Bat Mitzvah program that features an approach to coming of age
with an emphasis on Jewish identity. A Leadership Program for 10th through
12th grade high school students, continues with experiential learning as
student’s serve as classroom and community paid assistants. The Folkshul offers
community holiday and life cycle events. There is an Adult Community that
hosts Sunday morning lectures, holiday celebrations, social justice actions and
events, as well as a Restaurant Club and other off-site activities.

Chelkeinu Initiative
chelkeinu@chelkeinu.org • chelkeinu.org
Runs programming in Northeast Philadelphia and along the Old York Road
corridor.

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