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10 Detroit Jewish News

Special to The Jewish News

Atlanta

D

etroit's new Jewish adult edu-
cation program actually got
its start 700 miles away in
this booming Southern city.
Atlanta's Jewish U. was the prototype
for Detroit's Seminars for Adult Jewish
Education (SAJE), says Nancy Lipsey,
who ran Detroit's Jewish book fair until
last year, when she became director of
Jewish learning programs for the Atlanta
Jewish Community Center.
Lipsey said that in the next few weeks
enrollment will hit 1,000, the highest
total since Jewish U. started five years
ago. Last year, 540 Atlantans attended;
630 have registered already for the 60
Jewish U. classes that will start by the
end of the month.
Jewish U. succeeds because it offers
an affordable mix of short but substan-
tial courses, says Deborah Goldstein,
director of the Department of Jewish
Learning and Living at the Atlanta
Jewish Community Center.
Jewish U. features classes grouped
under headings such as "Practical

Signing On
To Learn

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Staff Writer

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tarting next Tuesday, Angela
King will be up to her ears in
Jewish studies.
A young grandmother and
part-time receptionist, King is signed
up for 12 courses, the maximum possi-
ble, in Seminars in Adult Jewish
Enrichment (SAJE). That's two courses
a night, three nights a week, spread
over six weeks, two campuses and the
dreariest days of winter.
"I think I can handle it," said
King. "I don't think there'll be a lot
),
of homework.

Judaism", "Spirituality" and "Back to the
Sources." Teachers include Reform,
Conservative, Orthodox and Chabad
rabbis as well as a popular morning
radio personality speaking about
Judaism and his public life and Israel's
deputy consul general in Atlanta lectur-
ing on the country's future.
A Reform rabbi offers a one-hour
course called "Jewish History at the
Speed of Light." A Chabad rabbi pre-
sents two one-hour lectures on impor-
tant events in the month of Adar. A
Jewish family educator teaches a three-
part course on raising children with
Jewish values, from table manners to
behavior on the ball field.
"It's short-term, but it's quality,"
Goldstein says, defining quality as edu-
cational content. That's why there are no
Jewish cooking or crafts courses in the
Jewish U. catalogue, she says.
Jewish U. also offers three levels of
beginner Hebrew ulpan, an intermediate
course and an advanced class. About 60
adults enrolled in the Hebrew classes
this fall, and nearly 400 have taken a
Hebrew class since the. ulpan program
began two years ago, Goldstein says.
Paula Londe, a 26-year-old marketing

King is one of 226 students
already enrolled in SAJE, a new adult
education program offered through
the Jewish Community Center of
Metropolitan Detroit and the Agency
for Jewish Education (AJE) of
Metropolitan Detroit. Based on a
successful series at the Atlanta Jewish
Community Center, the program
offers 57 short-term classes Tuesday-
Thursday evenings on a variety of
Jewish topics. Courses, located on
both JCC campuses, are taught on a
volunteer basis by local rabbis, educa-
tors and other community leaders.
Most students have opted for a
somewhat lighter course load than
King, who also studies Hebrew at the
AJE's Midrasha Center for Adult
Learning and attends lunch-and-learn
sessions through Ohr Somayach.
According to SAJE Coordinator Judy

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