West End Synagogue: Adult Education and Lifelong Learning

Adult Education and Lifelong Learning

The Yad Mordecai Adult Education Project
The Yad Mordecai Project was established to express and embody our congregational commitment to universal adult study of Jewish sources, history and cultural expression in its many forms. Through Yad Mordecai, we pursue our vision of a congregation as literate and well-educated in Jewish terms as it is in secular terms. The project has been funded by a grant from West End Synagogue founding members Dorothy and Sidney Becker.

Yad Mordecai programs and activities focus on the vital areas of education, community, and outreach:

Education - Working to deepen the congregation's Jewish knowledge at all levels through educational and cultural programs and events.
Community - Involving members, enhancing interaction among the various WES populations, enriching the communal life of the congregation, and complementing school programs for parents.
Outreach - Providing educational opportunities for the community at large that enhance Jewish living and promote Reconstructionism.

Activities sponsored by the Yad Mordecai Project include:

Single-session lectures and courses, as well as longer series on selected topics by our Rabbi, Cantor, and invited speakers.

A variety of musical, theatrical, and literary programs.

Scholar in Residence and Artist in Residence programs that bring prominent figures in Jewish thought and culture to West End Synagogue.

For more information call WES Office or Moshe Sayer

click FOURTH ANNUAL FILEM SERIES OF JEWISH INTEREST for Complete information (pdf).

click Author's Night for Complete information (pdf).

Yad Mordecai Adult Education Talk & Practice Series -
From Theology to Liturgy , Winter 2010

Click here to here the first talk by WES member Dr. Mel Scult on the Reconstructionist Liturgy.

“Neighbors and Murderers” -- the English version of a documentary recently broadcasted on Israeli public television telling the story of the Jews of Bolechow through the eyes of survivors and their descendents who returned there in August 2009 to re-dedicate the cemetery and the killing fields.