of Temple University’s Department of
History in the College of Liberal Arts.

Gratz College*
CAMPS & EDUCATION
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.

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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 children’s 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
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