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Adult education

Innovative, interesting and challenging

Shir Hadash develops adult education programs based on membership surveys and on an eye and ear for topics that few others are exploring.

The programs have ranged from classroom-style seminars and field trips to group in-home video viewings followed a couple of weeks later by an overall discussion session led by a doctoral candidate in film studies at UW-Madison.

Previous adult education offerings

  • Our Shemitah Year: Connecting to the Environment
  • “A Survey of Classical Jewish Philosophy and Philosophers”
  • “Reconstructionism 201”
  • “Conversos, Maranos, Jews: Culture and the Arts Among the Portuguese Jews in Amsterdam”
  • “Adding Your Voice To The Biblical Text: Midrash, Ancient and Modern — What’s Your Connection?”
  • “The Jews of China”
  • “Jewish, Alive and American”
  • “Homosexuality in Israel”
  • A preview of the High Holy Days, based on Rabbi Alan Lew's book, “This Is Real And You Are Totally Unprepared.”
  • A field trip to the Chicago area to hear Muslim author Irshad Manji.
  • A discussion of Rabbi Jonathan Sacks' book, "The Dignity of Difference: How to Avoid the Clash of Civilizations."
  • Frequent “Video Parlor Party” programs with videos of Jewish or Israeli interest at member's homes 

For more info call 414-297-9159.

Learn more about our Rosh Hodesh program

 

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