Jewish for Adults
Learning is a key value in Judaism. These classes are for people who want to learn more about Judaism and Jewishness as a way of living. For anyone who is Jewish, Jew-ish, Jew-curious, or Jew-adjacent.
Winter/Spring 2026 Class Schedule
Jews & Kings
3 Sundays: 1/18, 1/25, 2/1
Prices (Member/Non-Member)
$75/$105
Our Jewish ancestors have often lived with kings - and without them. Learn about Jewish responses to worldly, human power to help us navigate our current moment.
All the Zionisms
4 Thursdays: 2/19, 2/26, 3/5, 3/12
Member/Non-Member Prices:
$100/$140
Taught by Rabbis Ephraim Pelcovits & Kerry Chaplin
A class series about zionism and our many responses to it. Some history, some modern thinkers, and a lot of grace and curiosity.
This series is for people interested in learning, understanding, and processing. It’s not for folks interested in persuasion, talking points, or litmus tests.
REGISTRATION AVAILABLE SOON
Jewish at Home
2 Sundays: 3/15, 3/22
Prices (Member/Non-Member)
$50/$70
A workshop to home your Jewishness. Find and try on practices that support your and/or family’s jewish culture, identity.
For solo folks, couples, poly people, folks with kids, & multi-cultural families and people.
Jews & Kings
3 Sessions: 1/18, 1/25, 2/1
Member/Non-Member Prices: $75 | $105
REGISTRATION AVAILABLE SOON
Our Jewish ancestors have often lived with kings - and without them. Learn about Jewish responses to worldly, human power to help us navigate our current moment.
The Self-Help Section
4 Sundays: 4/12, 4/19, 4/26, 5/3
Member/Non-Member Prices
$100/$140
Learn about and practice ancestral Jewish approaches to self-help (shhhh… the secret is responsibility).
Rabbi Kerry Chaplin
Guiding with Compassion and Wisdom
As a ritualist, teacher, and spiritual counselor, Rabbi Kerry Chaplin (yes, that is her real name) practices and preaches an embodied, living spirituality through authentic relationship with one’s own mind, body, and spirit. He believes that sharing this authenticity with others and with the Divine, however you understand the Divine today, deepens connections that help us live better.
Before becoming a rabbi, Rabbi Kerry was a community organizer, living all things justice. In every community where she has served as a rabbi, from Hillel at UCLA and Vassar College, to Lab/Shul, to Beit T’Shuvah, Rabbi Kerry has been committed to helping those at the margins experience connection with themselves, others, and Something Bigger.
She is grateful for her teachers at the Ziegler School, Washington University in St. Louis, her yoga teachers, and so many others known and unknown. She lives and plays with her kiddo Frankie, wife Julia, and kitty Smudgy.
Intro to Judaism
Scheduled to begin January 2027
Learning is a key value in Judaism.
This series is for people who want to learn more about Judaism and Jewishness, whether their own or that of the people they care about. It’s for conversion-curious folks and people who feel like they want to know more about where they come from. It’s for everyone who is trying to sort out where they belong and why they belong there. Each class will contain three components: history, practice, and thought/philosophy.
*2025 Class Curriculum and Dates pictured for reference.
If you are interested in future courses, please contact Rabbi Kerry at rabbikerry@sijcc.net.
