Shabbat Classes
Responsa Of Rav Ovadia Yosef
8:30am - Rabbi Chaim Steinmetz
Pre-Mincha Shiur
1 hour before Mincha - Rabbi Chaim Steinmetz
Explore a broad range of topics in Jewish tradition, with a focus on their application today.
Seudah Shlishit
Join us following Mincha for a light meal, good company, and community spirit. Each week features a discussion led by one of our rabbis or a guest presenter.
Weekly Classes
See here for more details on weekly classes.
Dr. William Major Memorial Advanced Shiur in Talmud
Sunday mornings following 8:30 am services and breakfast
Taught by Rabbi Dr. Jeremy Wieder
Continuing our study of Masekhet Avodah Zarah with its classical commentaries.
Exploring Jewish Thought
Mondays at 8:30 am
Rabbi Chaim Steinmetz
What is the foundation of ethics? How did Orthodox Jews understand the Holocaust? Dive deeply into questions of Jewish philosophy and wrestle with challenging ideas. Appropriate for intellectually curious students of any background. Translated texts provided.
Parsha Foundations
Tuesdays at 8:15 am
Rabbi Elie Weinstock
Ramban al ha-Torah: The Commentary of Nachmanides
Tuesdays at 8:00 pm
Martin Kaufman
This class will focus on Sefer Bereishit (the Book of Genesis) where Ramban develops his classic theories of Man, Jewish Nationhood and History, and basic theological issues such as Free Will, the Soul, Pre-destination, Divine Governance, the Existence of Evil, and more.Ramban develops his classic theories of Man, Jewish Nationhood and History, and basic theological issues such as Free Will, the Soul, Pre-destination, Divine Governance, the Existence of Evil, and more.
Women’s Parshat Hashavua
Wednesdays at 8:30 am
Rabbi Haskel Lookstein
Drash and Nosh
Tuesday at 6:30 pm
Rabbi Yossi Weiser
Feed the body, mind and soul with Torah and light dinner.
Crash Course in Hebrew Reading
Fall: Wednesdays, Starting October 18 at 6:30 pm
Winter: Wednesdays, Starting January 3 at 6:30 pm
Sara Rosen
This popular series of classes enables those with no previous background in Hebrew to learn to read Hebrew in just a short time.
Prayerbook Hebrew
Fall: Wednesdays, Starting October 18 at 7:30 pm
Spring: Wednesdays, Starting January 3 at 7:30 pm
Sara Rosen
Designed for those with some ability to read Hebrew, students practice reading skills using the siddur and other Jewish texts. Special emphasis is placed on becoming fluent in the daily prayers and traditional tunes of Jewish liturgy.
Co-sponsored by NJOP.
Traversing Talmud
Wednesdays at 7:15 pm
Rabbi Chaim Steinmetz
Following up on Rabbi Angel's popular class "Navigating Nach", Rabbi Steinmetz will be starting a class that will move its way through the Talmud, and read an exemplary passage from of each of the Babylonian Talmud's 37 volumes.
Prophetic Women–“The Book of Samuel: Woman’s Complex Relationships with Men, Children and God”
Thursdays at 8:30 am
Shera Aranonoff Tuchman
In Kings One, King David is marked as a monarch in sharp decline - Bat-Sheva his wife, is waiting in the wings, to re-appear, center-stage, fiercely protective of Solomon, the second child born to her union with David, and to whom David has apparently promised the Monarchy. So, the story continues…
Studies in the Weekly Portion
Thursdays at 8:00 pm
Taught by Sam Berkovitz
Explore the profound insights and relevance of our tradition derived from the weekly Torah reading as it is filtered through the prism of classical Jewish commentaries of the last 2,500 years.