Adult Learning

To find out about upcoming events, visit our calendar. Here are a few samples from our past programs:

Short Series

• The Early Prophets
• Women's Voices in Jewish Literature
• Talmud - Barely an Introduction
• Three Scrolls - Esther, Kohelet, Song of Songs
• Interfaith Families
• David Frishman

A Variety of One-time Events

• Learn Hebrew in a day
• When Jews Build: Cultural Memory in the Synagogue
• The Sotah - the suspected adulteress
• Business Ethics - a panel discussion
• Jews in Hollywood
• The Sandwich Generation
• Bikur Cholim - the art of visiting
• The Yiddish Foksong
• Light and Dark - A Hannukah Shabatton

 

Ongoing study

• Shabbat morning Torah Study
• Monthly Talmud Study
• Monthly Jewish Meditation

Holocaust Education

Every year, Darchei Noam participates in Toronto's Holocaust Education Week:

• Gypsies and the Holocaust
• Jewish Refugees in Jamaica
• "I am feeling well and am in good health" - mail from concentration camps
• Nazis on Trial - the 1963-65 criminal trial of Nazis in Germany
• Holocaust Memory and Jewish Identity in Canada

The holidays

Some of our programs are specifically aimed at getting more out of our holidays, by learning how to put more in:

• Pesach workshop: How do you run a seder? The basics, the creative enhancements.
• Sukkah Crawl: One afternoon of sukkot, some members of Darchei Noam open their sukkahs for visits by congregants.
• Synagogue skills: What is a siddur and a chumash, why do we stand / sit / stand, how to have an aliyah.