Learning Curve

Learning Curve
BHBE’s Adult Education Programs

Learning Curve! Brochure 2024-2025

Classes with Rabbi Nate Crane

Talmud
Wednesdays at 10:00 am (in-person and online)

Psalms 
First Thursday of each month at 7:30 am (in-person and online)

Introduction to Judaism Class 
Periodic Sundays at 11:00 am (in-person)

With Timbral and Harp (Psalm 15)
Tuesday evenings, January 38 and February 4 (in-person and online)
Explore the history, halakhic concerns, and parameters of including musical instruments on Shabbat and holidays.

 

Classes with Cantor Pavel Roytman

Lunch and Learn: Music and Meaning in Kabbalat Shabbat – melodies, words, and concepts
Thursdays, January 23 and 30 and February 6 and 13 at 12:30 pm (in-person and online)
Light lunch provided.

 

Unique Programs

Avraham Avinu/Father Abraham in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam with Rabbi Allan Kensky
Tuesdays November 12, 19, and 26 at 7:30 pm

Reflections with Sandy Goldberg
Mondays March 17, 24, and 31 and April 7, 21, and 28 at 7:30 pm (in-person)
Reflections onthe toughts of Rabbi Lord Jonathan Saks z”l as expressed his book Morality.

 

Special Events

Annual BHBE Film Festival
To Be or Not To Be – December 14, 2024
The Heartbreak Kid – January 11, 2025
Shiva Baby – February 15, 2025 – Time changed to 6:30 pm so you can enjoy the community havdalah and dinner then go right into the movie!

Saturdays at 7:30 pm (in-person).  All are followed by group discussions.  $10 per person, and we’ll provide the snacks.

Yom Hashoah Program
Wednesday, April 23 at 7:30 pm

Tikkun Leil Shavuot
Sunday, June 1 at 8:00 pm

 

Other learning resources

Melton School of Adult Jewish Learning

Exploring Judaism The Rabbinical Assembly’s digital space for teachings, traditions, and approaches to Conservative/Masorti Judaism

American Jewish University

Classrooms Without Borders

Conservative Yeshiva Online Courses

Conservative Yeshiva Online Hebrew Ulpan

Hadar

Illinois Holocaust Museum and Education Center

Jewish Theological Seminary

My Jewish Learning

Orot Center for New Jewish Learning

Qesher: an independent initiative introducing different Jewish communities from around the world

Schechter Institute Community Learning

ScholarStream: A Partnership of the Conservative Movement

SVARA: A Traditionally Radical Yeshiva

Temple Emanu-El Streicker Center

Temple Israel of Boston Center for Adult Jewish Learning

UnYeshiva from Judaism Unbound

We look forward to learning with you!