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Previous Classes

2020/21:

Summer mini-mester: 
​ONLINE
Learning and Unlearning: Exploring the Experiences of Jewish People of Colour and Inequality in Canada with Sara Yacobi-Harris

Semester 1: 

ONLINE @ Beth Tzedec
Hands-On Track: Middle Eastern Cooking with Ronnie Abraham
Judaism +Modernity Track: Finding Our Place: Jews in the Struggle for Racial Equity with Tema Smith
Text and Context Track: Exploring Sephardi Jewry through Rabbinic Texts with Chaim Grafstein


2019/20:

Semester 1: 
​@ CSI Annex 
Tzedakah (Hands-On Track): Dyeing & Doykheit: An exploration of natural dyeing, connection to land and Jewish diaspora with Sarit Cantor 
T’shuvah (Judaism +Modernity Track): Returning, Repenting & Reconnecting with Yacov Fruchter
​T’fillah (Text and Context Track): Learning to Live Who
le-Heartedly with Rabbi Julia Appel
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​Semester 2: 
​@ Miles Nadal Jewish Community Centre 
Hands-On Track: Jewish Self-Care through the Arts with Or Har-Gil
Judaism + Modernity: Faith Based Social Justice with the Lishma Team
Text and Context: 6 Amazing Texts with Rabbi Zachary Goodman

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Semester 3:

​@ Holy Blossom Temple
Hands-On Track: 
New Jewish Film with Aaron Rotenberg
Judaism + Modernity: B
ad@$$ Sheroes with Rabbi Becca Walker
Text and Context: Jewish Couplehood with Yacov Fruchter 

​Semester 4:

ONLINE ​@ Beth Tzedec
Hands-On Track: Creative Writing with Tikva Hecht
Judaism + Modernity: Medical Ethics with Rabbi Steven Wernick
Text and Context: Queer Apocalypse in the Jewish Imagination with Rabbi Andrea Myers 
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2018/19:

Semester 1: 
​@ Miles Nadal JCC
Hands-On Track: Hebrew Calligraphy as Jewish Art with Baruch Sienna 
Judaism +Modernity Track: Harry Potter and the Sacred Text with Jenny Isaacs
Text and Context Track: Weekly Torah for Beginners with Rabbi Jordan Helfman

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​Semester 2: 
​@ Beth Tzedec

Hands-On Track: Tachles! Learning (Beginner) Conversational Hebrew  with Lior Sagi
Judaism + Modernity: PJ Library/Melton Foundations of Jewish Living with Daniel Silverman
Text and Context: People of the Book, People of the Land with Risa Alyson Cooper


​Semester 3:
​@ 
CSI Annex 
Hands-On Track: Mindfulness in Silence and Song with Aviva Chernick / Jewish Music for the Healing of the Soul with Aaron Lightstone (split course)
Judaism + Modernity: Jewish Couplehood with Yacov Fruchter 
Text and Context: Feminist Torah with Rabbi Denise Handlarski

​Semester 4:
@ Holy Blossom Temple

Hands-On Track: Starting an Indigenous/Jewish Conversation with Leah Mauer 
Judaism + Modernity: Refugees, Judaism and Asylum with Howard Adelman
Text and Context: Judaism and Happiness with Rabbi Baruch Frydman-Kohl
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