Advanced Learning Institute: Mondays 9:30-10:30 AM (Pacific)
Upcoming Classes
Looking for in-depth Jewish learning? Join our ongoing group of adult learners and engage with gifted Jewish scholars from around the country.
Upcoming Classes
July 29 | Jewish Life in the UK Yesterday and Today: Discoveries and highlights from JCoOC’s tour of four centers of Jewish life in Great Britain that took root in the 17th century. With Cantor Matthew Austerklein and Rabbi Marcia Tilchin
August 5-12 | Eicha - Alas, how…?” Reading Lamentations in 2024 with Bex Rosenblatt
August 19, 26 and September 9 | Between Transcendence and Immanence with Rabbi Daniel Levine
September 2 | No ALI due to Labor Day
ALI Archives
Highlights from JCoOC’s Excursion to Jewish Great Britain
With Cantor Matthew Austerklein and Rabbi Marcia Tilchin
Monday - 9:30 am PT | 12:30 pm ET
Monday, July 29, 2024
JCoOC’s inaugural learning mission provided a compelling window into the origins and evolution of British Jewish life since Oliver Cromwell allowed Jews to return to England in 1656. 400 years of Jewish legacy continues to enrich the U.K. into the 21st century. Our presentation will include a special focus on current Jewish communal life and worship.
Register for "Jewish Life in the UK Yesterday and Today"
“Eicha - Alas, how…?” Reading Lamentations in 2024 with Bex Rosenblatt
Mondays, August 5 and 12, 2024
Please note special time change from our usual ALI schedule
10:00 am PT | 1:00 pm ET
Since October 7th, the words of Lamentations echo: The Lord "killled all that is precious to the eye. In the tent of Daughter Zion, He poured out like fire His fury." And so, "finished by tears are my eyes, my insides are burning. My very liver is poured out to the earth over the destruction of my people."
The Book of Lamentations answers its own desperate, unfathomable loss and ensuing silence from God by offering readers a path to rebuilding community. It invites us to sit together and remember what was, trying to structure a world where such devastation can never happen to us again.
The ritual of chanting Eicha every year as an expression of lament has helped us live through every tragedy that has befallen the Jewish people. The massacre of October 7th is no exception. We will immerse ourselves in select verses from Lamentations that have been chanted and reinterpreted throughout Jewish history to help communities cope with the harsh realities of their time.
Register for "Eicha - Alas, how…?” Reading Lamentations in 2024
Between Transcendence and Immanence: How Kabbalah Indelibly Shifted the Jewish View of God with Rabbi Daniel Levine
Mondays - 9:30 am PT | 12:30 am ET
August 19, 26 and September 9
Jewish practices that are today considered mainstream - the structure and substance of prayer, Shabbat and holiday rituals, acts of social conscience - have been shaped because of and in response to the growth of Kabbalah as a formidable voice in Judaism’s understanding of God. In this course, Rabbi Daniel will reveal different layers of Kabbalah's impact on essential Jewish practices that have evolved and become fixed in the last 400 years.
Session 1 | The Zohar and Sefirot
Session 2 | The Brokenness of the World and Tikkun Olam
Session 3 | Contemporary Perspectives in Kabbalah
Register for "Between Transcendence and Immanence: How Kabbalah Indelibly Shifted the Jewish View of God"
