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.

Feinstein Center for American Jewish History
Temple University • 916 Gladfelter Hall
1115 Polett Walk. • Philadelphia, PA 19112
215-204-9553 • feinsteincenter@temple.edu
cla.temple.edu/feinstein-center-for-american-jewish-history/ Promotes the study of the American Jewish experience in America, and
sponsors conferences, symposia, fellowships, publications and public events
devoted to understanding the multiple dimensions of American Jewish
experience in the U.S. The Feinstein Center is part of Temple University’s
Department of History in the College of Liberal Arts.

Gratz College
Mandell Education Campus • 7605 Old York Road • Melrose Park, PA 19027
215-635-7300 • Fax: 215-635-7399 • admissions@gratz.edu • gratz.edu
Provides a pluralistic education for students online and on campus. Gratz offers
doctoral, graduate and undergraduate degree and certificate programs, as well
as learning opportunities for adults and teens. Gratz College has two doctoral
programs: Doctor of Holocaust and Genocide Studies (Ph.D.) and Doctor of
Education in Leadership (Ed.D.), and graduate degrees in Education (MAEd),
Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Interfaith Leadership, Jewish Professional
Studies, Jewish Communal Service, Jewish Studies, and Nonprofit Management,
and a new master’s degree in Camp Administration and Leadership. Graduate
certificates are offered in all graduate majors. Undergraduate certificates/degrees
are offered in Jewish Education, Jewish Studies, and Jewish Professional Studies.

Gratz offers adult Jewish learning programs and lectures as well as credit and
noncredit courses in Hebrew and Yiddish. Gratz College offers CLE courses for
attorneys on campus. The Tuttleman library contains extensive holdings such as
a music library and Holocaust Oral History Archive.

Jewish Studies Program at University of Pennsylvania
711 Williams Hall • 255 S. 36th St. • Philadelphia, PA 19104 • 215-898-6654
Fax: 215-573-6026 • jsp-info@sas.upenn.edu ccat.sas.upenn.edu/jwst
A program reflective of the full range of the Jewish experience as well as
different approaches to studying Jewish life and culture. Students of all
backgrounds are welcome to take courses and participate in the programs.

Courses may be taken as electives, or students can develop a major or minor
course of study in any one of four different Jewish Studies tracks. The program
also offers opportunities for outside the classroom learning experiences.

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.

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