Intro to Judaism and Hebrew Basics Resources 2024 - 2025
Conversion Seminar Resources
Click here for Conversion Seminar 2024 Packet
Sound files:
Click here to download blessings for the immersion in the Mikveh
Click here to download blessings recited at the conversion ceremony
Intro to Judaism Class Packets and Resources
Intro to Judaism class calendar • Intro to Judaism syllabus
Week 1 - Jewish Belonging, Behaving and Believing: Who is a Jew? Who are the Jewish People? What Is Judaism?
Week 1 Packet
Week 2 - Jewish Time: Introducing the Calendar and the Tishrei Holidays
Week 2 Packet
No Class on Tuesday, November 5, Election Day
Week 3 - The Jewish Story: Torah, Tanach, and Jewish Beginnings
Week 3 Packet
Week 4 - The Jewish Story: Transition to Rabbinic Leadership and Rabbinic Lore
Week 4 Packet
No Class on Tuesday, November 26.
Week 5 - The Jewish Story: Greatest Hits from the Tanach
Week 5 Packet
Week 6 - The Jewish Story: The Medieval and Modern Periods and the emergence of the Synagogue Movements
Week 6 Packet
Week 7 - Jewish Time: Chanukah Workshop & December Dilemma
Week 7 Packet
No class on Tuesday, December 24. Happy Chanukah!
No class on Tuesday, December 31. Happy New Year!
Week 8 - The Jewish Story: The Jewish Experience of Anti-Semitism and the Holocaust
Week 8 Packet 1
Week 8 Packet 2
Week 9 - Jewish Believing: Jewish Concepts of God
Week 10 - The Jewish Story: Zionism, the Land, and the State of Israel
Week 11 - Jewish Time: Shabbat, a Sanctuary in Time
Week 11 Packet
Week 12 - Jewish Living: Jewish Ethics and Current Issues of Social Justice
Week 12 Packet
Week 13 - Jewish Time: The Spring Holidays
Week 13 Packet
Week 14: Jewish Living: Jewish Music Past and Present
Week 14 Packet
Week 15: Jewish Living: Everyday Spirituality and Creating a Jewish Home
Week 15 Packet
Week 16: Jewish Believing: Judaism and Christianity
Week 17: Jewish Living: Jewish Music Past and Present
Week 17 Packet
Week 18: Jewish Living: Jewish Views of Life, Death, and Mourning
Week 18 Packet
Week 19: Jewish Prayer: Communal Worship and Observance
Week 19 Packet
Week 20: Friendships, Relationships, Love and Sex in Jewish Tradition
Week 21: Passover Workshop
Week 21 Packet 1
Week 21 Packet 2
Week 22: Roundtable with our clergy. Come with your questions to “stump the rabbi.”
Week 22 Packet