Guide Category: Adult Education, Lectures, Seminars
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* Listings with an asterisk are part of the JUF/JF partnership of agencies serving the Chicago and worldwide Jewish community.
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The Joseph Cardinal Bernardin Jerusalem Lecture
An annual lecture that maintains the dialogue between Jews and Catholics on issues affecting their relationship.
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Spertus Institute for Jewish Learning and Leadership
Offers learning opportunities that are rooted in Jewish wisdom and culture and open to all. Offerings are designed to enable personal growth, train future leaders, and engage individuals in exploration of Jewish life. Graduate programs and professional workshops are offered in the Chicago area, in select locations across North America, in Israel, and through distance learning. Public programs including films, speakers, seminars, concerts, and exhibits are offered at the Institute's Michigan Avenue facility, in the Chicago suburbs, and online.
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Philip & Ethel Klutznick Lectures in Jewish Civilization
Co-sponsored by Northwestern University. Free annual lectures by eminent Jewish scholars on topics of interest to the Jewish community.
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Chicago Jewish Historical Society
Historical material on Chicago Jewry; sponsors public programs; tours of Jewish historic sites; quarterly journal.
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Yeshiva Yaakov Ovenu, YYO Introductions, YYO Singles
Dedicated to helping fellow Jews, providing Torah and chesed to those in need. Torah classes, home study programs, YYO Singles, YYO Introductions, Better Beginnings (relationship enhancement), seminars, Mishmeres Shmiras HaLoshon of Chicago, Clothes Committee (collects and distributes clothing to those in need), Pesa Bas HaRav Eliezer Shtick Gmach (shtick, arches for chasunas). All services are free of charge.
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Vaad Hadayanus/Council on Jewish Law
Classes, publications and seminars.
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North Shore Torah Center Komimiyus
Torah classes, free of charge, primarily in Deerfield and Highland Park.
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The Chicago Center for Jewish Studies
Lectures, conferences, and arts programming in all areas of Jewish history, culture, literature, and religion, all open to the public; oversees undergraduate programs; and supports and coordinates graduate degree programs in multiple areas of Jewish Studies in 13 departments and schools.
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Kollel Toras Chesed
One-on-one learning sessions on Sundays, morning and evening learning sessions for men; classes and discussion groups for men and women; children's story hour on Shabbos; TNT & Besamim programs for children; Women's Tanach class; Torah To Go CDs.
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Chicago Community Kollel
Adult education classes for men and women throughout greater Chicago,