Adult Lifelong Learning
Scroll below for information on our wide range of Adult Learning! All are welcome!
Torah Study
Rabbi's Study Group: Mishnah
Monday Night Learning Classes
Book Club
Shabbat Lunch Speakers Series
Torah Study with Rabbi Fabricant
9-10 am every Shabbat in person and Zoom
A diverse, thoughtful group meets every week to study and discuss the weekly Torah portion. Bagel breakfast is served. Join us every week, or as often as you can. Torah Study is a great opportunity to make learnig part of your your routine and to build relationships and community.
Rabbi's Study Group: Mishnah
Wednesdays at 12 noon via Zoom
Join Rabbi Noah in this fascinating adventure - studying our way through the Mishnah, the earliest written collection of of the laws, stories and traditions of the ancient Rabbis. From prayer to criminal law, ethcs to agriculture - the Mishnah covers every area of Jewish life and thought. Join us for the indo of regular study that can change your whole relationship to your Judaism. All are welcome!
Wrestling with the Tanakh
Tuesdays at 9:30 am
Organized and led by members of our community, exploring the Hebrew Bible from a variety of different perspectives. Contact the office for Zoom link.
Monday Night Learning Returns!
Exploring Biblical Poetry with Deborah Hammond and Mike Farhi
February 8, 15 at 7:30 pm via Zoom
About one-third of our Bible is poetry! Some Books, likes Psalms, Job and the Song of Songs, are almost entirely poetry. Others, like Moses' last speech and the words of the prophets Isaiah and Jeremiah, are also timeless and beautiful.
This two part class will advance on our themes of literacy and scholarship as we look at the history of Jews. We'll contrast that with the rest of the world.
We'll explore the emergence of actual literature, writings that are more than a narration of the past, tales that are evocative and outstanding shared with the writer’s world and astonishingly passed down to us all to study and enjoy.
If you want to learn more, take a look at James L Kugel's ‘The Great Poems of the Bible.'
We look forward to studying with you.
Shoah: Personal Stories of Women’s Unique Experiences
with Vicky Farhi
Monday, 4/13, 4/20, 4/27 via Zoom
Women faced unique challenges in the Holocaust. We’ll their many experiences, serving in the underground, as couriers in occupied lands, surviving medical experiments, managing their family’s lives and struggling for survival. Hear their stories.
Book Club
Share your love of books and good conversation. All Book Club events are at 7:30 pm via Zoom.
October 5: Rabbi Angela Buchdahl “Heart of a Stranger”
December 14: Amy Bloom “Lucky Us”
January 4: Allegra Goodman “This is Not About Us”
March 15: Adam Jortner “A Promised Land: Jewish Patriots, the American Revolution and the Birth of Religious Freedom”
April 12: Amy Bloom “Blunt Instrument” (mystery)
June 7: Roy K Altman “Israel on Trial”
Shabbat Lunch Speakers Series
Saturdays 12 - 2 pm
We are excited to host discussions with newly published authors! Each author will share the visions and ideas that are shaping the Jewish world now. Autographed copies of each book will be available to order. A light lunch will be served. Please RSVP to the office: office@koldorot.org
December 20
January 3, 2026
February 21
April 4
May 25