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May 27, 2020 | 4 Sivan 5780
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Teen Learning Renaissance at Hebrew College
What do teens want? To make their own choices. This fall, Teen Learning at Hebrew College will offer six options—including four new and reimagined programs—that allow teens to choose experiences that fit their unique passions, backgrounds, and schedules.
“We talked to a lot of parents and teens about how we could best serve young Jews in their Jewish learning and growth,” says Rabbi Laura Bellows, Director of Teen Learning at Hebrew College. “We are excited to offer teens what they asked for—a robust menu of diverse learning options, led by dynamic and warm faculty, scholars, and practitioners, where teens can craft their own Jewish learning experiences and explore."
Programs include:
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- Prozdor of Hebrew College (8th-12th)
- JTFGB of Hebrew College (9th-12th)
- NEW! Teen Beit Midrash of Hebrew College (8th-12th)
- NEW! Gesher Israel of Hebrew College (10th-11th)
- NEW! Prozdor Immersive of Hebrew College (7th-12th)
- NEW! Dignity Project of Hebrew College (10th-11th)
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Prozdor of Hebrew College:
Where Jewish Teens Thrive
With more than 5,000 graduates, Prozdor offers Sunday morning classes ranging from politics to philosophy, humor to hands-on social justice, and Talmud to art, as well as Modern Hebrew. Next year, Prozdor is expanding its Hebrew options, shifting to a three hour program, and creating a new Prozdor Immersives track (see below).
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JTFGB of Hebrew College:
Teen Philanthropy & Leadership
This popular program will return for its sixth year of teen leadership, values-driven learning, collaboration, and fundraising. Teens have awarded grants to organizations that fight child abuse and sexual assault, support refugees, and address mental health and environmental issues, among other issues.
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Teen Beit Midrash of Hebrew College: Where Talmud, Teens & Today’s Questions Meet
Teens who love to learn come together weekly to explore the big questions and issues of today through Talmud. This program has been thriving at Harvard Hillel and will be expanding to two sites: Tuesdays in its original home and Wednesdays at Hebrew College. Learn more.
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So One May Live: A Case Study of Conjoined Twins
Teen Beit Midrash will offer a six-week online summer session exploring Talmudic sources and analyzing moral and ethical issues raised by this case.
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Prozdor Immersives of Hebrew College: Deep Dive Innovation & Arts
For those who want a deep dive into experiential Jewish learning, Prozdor Immersives will meet for 2-3 hours on three Sundays each year, going in-depth into different Jewish learning tracks: arts, innovation, change-making, or ethical debates. Sign up for one, two, or all three Immersives.
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Gesher Israel of Hebrew College: Teen Israel Experience
Teens will meet every few weeks over a meal to discuss Isreali culture and Jewish identity, alongside teens from the Reali School in Haifa. Independently and together, they will explore questions of identity, pluralism, and denominationalism, as well as history, culture, social issues, and current events, and visit each other, if possible.
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Dignity Project of Hebrew College: Interreligious Teen Leadership
High schoolers will be trained to serve as cross-cultural leaders to help build bridges of understanding and cooperation. The program is being developed by the Miller Center for Interreligious Learning & Leadership, in collaboration with houses of worship, schools, and civic organizations throughout the city.
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JTFGB Teens Donate $58,000 in Grants
The Jewish Teen Foundation of Greater Boston of Hebrew College (JTFGB), which teaches high school students about philanthropy, civic leadership, and grant-making, will award $58,000 tonight at 6 pm to eight organizations that focus on education inequality, substance use disorder, environmental justice, and gun violence.
“This is an amazing achievement for our teens,” says Leah Goldstein, director of JTFGB of Hebrew College. “Coming to consensus and making these big decisions is challenging, and even more so over a computer screen. We are so proud of what our JTFGB students have learned and accomplished.”
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Virtual Prozdor Graduation Full of Ruach
High schoolers from 13 high schools and 12 congregations graduated from Prozdor, joining an alumni community of more than 5,000. Watch the ceremony
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Celebrating 100 Hours of Jewish Learning
Hebrew College celebrated 48 adults who completed Me'ah Classic, a two-year, 100-hour learning experience supported by CJP.
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Hidden are the things we see
Parashat B'midbar (Numbers 1:1-4:20)
By Rabbi Dr. Michael Shire
Chief Academic Officer, Hebrew College
Looking out the window, I see cardinals and robins, rabbits and squirrels, blue empty skies—in the last two months of isolation, I have come to notice my beautiful environment more than ever before. In this hidden-away state, more has been revealed to me than I experienced when I was outside hurrying to the places I needed to go. This has been a revelation to me. Hidden away from the melee of the world, I have learned, as Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel says, that “hidden are the things we see.”
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May and June Events
May 28
Hebrew College Niggun Seminar
1-1:30 pm | JewishLive.org
June 4
Masters Thesis Presentation Day: Jewish Education and Jewish Studies
9 am-3:30 pm | Learn more
June 7
A Celebration of Our Graduates: Noon-12:45 pm
Cantorial Ordination: 1 pm
Rabbinic Ordination: 2 pm
Learn more
June 8
PsalmSeason Concert & Event Kick-Off
7:30 pm | Learn more
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