Class Schedule/Recordings

Week 1 - Jewish Belonging, Behaving, and Believing: Who Is a Jew? Who are the Jewish People? What Is Judaism?

Week 1 Packet

Week 2 - Jewish Time: Introducing the Calendar, the cycle of the year, and Shabbat, A Sanctuary in Time - Sorry, no recording available

Week 2 Packet

Week 3 - The Jewish Story: Torah, Tanach, and Jewish Beginnings

Week 3 Packet

Week 4 - The Jewish Story: Greatest Hits from the Tanach

Week 4 Packet

Week 5 - Jewish Time: Chanukah Workshop & December Dilemma

Week 5 Packet

Week 6 - The Jewish Story: Transition to Rabbinic Leadership and Rabbinic Lore

Week 6 Packet

Week 7 - Jewish Learning: An Exploration of Jewish Stories, Law, Debate, and the Decision-Making Process in the Talmud and Beyond'

Week 7 Packet

Week 8 - The Jewish Story: The Medieval and Modern Periods and the Emergence of the Synagogue Movements

Week 8 Packet

Week 9 - Jewish Living: Sanctifying the Cycles and Milestones of Our Lives

Week 9 Packet

Week 10 - The Jewish Calendar, Part 2

Week 10 Packet

Week 11 - The Jewish Story: The Jewish Experience of Anti-Semitism and the Holocaust

(No Packet for Week 11)

Week 12 - Jewish Believing: Jewish Concepts of God

Week 12 Packet

Week 13 - Jewish Living: Everyday Spirituality and Creating a Jewish Home

Week 13 Packet

Week 14 - The Jewish Story: Zionism, the Land, and the State of Israel

(No Packet for Week 14)

Week 15 - Jewish Prayer: Communal Worship and Observance

Week 15 Packet

Week 16 - Jewish Believing: Judaism and Christianity

Week 16 Resource

Week 17 - Jewish Living: Applications of Jewish Law, Customs, and Values - The Hebrew portion of this class, which was entirely review, was not recorded.

Week 17 Resources: Tabletmag, ReconstructingJudaism, MyJewishLearning, YouTube

Week 18 - Jewish Living: Jewish Communities Around the World

Week 18 Packet

Week 19 - Jewish Prayer: An Experience of Worship and Communal Spiritual Practice

Week 20 - Jewish Living: Jewish Views of Life, Death, and Mourning

Week 20 Packet

Week 21 - Jewish Living: Jewish Ethics and Current Issues of Social Justice

Week 21 Packet

Week 22 - Jewish Time: Passover Workshop

Week 22 Packet

Week 23 - Jewish Time: Shavuot - the Tishrei Holidays

Week 23 Packet

Week 24 - Jewish Living: Jewish Music, Past and Present

Week 24 Packet

Week 25 - Final Class: Roundtable Discussion

Conversion Packet

Gerut at Temple Israel

First Conversion Seminar

Second Conversion Seminar

Third Conversion Seminar

Fourth Conversion Seminar

 

For those going through conversion, here are sound files for the blessings.

Blessings for the immersion in the Mikveh: Click here to download file.

Blessings recited at the Conversion Ceremony: Click here to download file.