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coordinator, says Jewish U. classes round
out her Jewish learning. She's taken
courses on dreams and spirituality,
Jewish storytelling and folklore and this
year, a three-session course on the Jewish
zodiac, taught by the headmaster of
Yeshiva Atlanta, the Orthodox high
school.
"I like the fact I can get some more
esoteric classes through Jewish U," says
Londe, who attends an Orthodox syna-
gogue and participates in classes offered
by individual rabbis and the Atlanta
Scholars Kollel, a group of Orthodox
rabbis. "I've always found something
that's captured me."
Jews' quest for spirituality and mean-
ing is helping to fuel participation
nationally in adult education courses,
says Jonathan Sarna, a Brandeis
University professor of American Jewish
history and chairman of the Department
of Near Eastern and Judaic Studies.
American Jews, who have largely pros-
pered and face little anti-Semitism, are
also probing their religion and culture for
reasons to remain Jewish when assimila-
tion is so pervasive, Sarna says.
Jewish community centers began tap-
ping into that trend a decade ago when
they started to hire professionals to plan
sophisticated adult Jewish education
programs, Goldstein says.
Atlanta's Jewish U. debuted in 1994
with about 20 classes. Goldstein was
brought onto the staff that year to
launch the Department of Jewish
Learning and Living. She is also chair-
person of the Jewish Educators' Forum,
a national organization of Jewish
Community Center educators.
The Jewish Community Center
Leder, students are averaging three
courses each, with Thursday sessions
(at the Kahn JCC) more popular than
other evenings.
Although SAJE is still taking regis-
trations (the official deadline was
Tuesday, Jan. 19, but "walk-in's" will be
accepted), it is so far attracting "an
underwrites Jewish U. Courses cost $18
for JCC members and $25 for guests.
This year, about 75 people spent
between $45 and $75 for a new option,
a pass that allows them unlimited access
to Jewish U. courses, Lipsey says.
The demand for Jewish education in
Atlanta has increased in step with its
Jewish population. The number of Jews
here has grown eight-fold in about five
decades, from around 10,000 in 1947 to
nearly 80,000 . today, according to a
1996 study of the city's Jewish popula-
tion commissioned by the Atlanta
Jewish Federation.
Many newcomers are professionals,
drawn to the city's expanding high-tech
industries or corporations such as Turner
Broadcasting. They expect Jewish educa-
tion to be sophisticated and substantive,
Goldstein says.
"We always have Jewish content, but
we market it in a very professional way,"
she says. An early Jewish U. brochure
depicted the instructors - many of them
rabbis - on mock baseball trading cards
that touted their classroom statistics.
Last year's brochure used black-and-
white photography and bold red and
black accents to highlight quotes from
students.
This year, in a nod to the Internet,
the Jewish U. website -
wwvv.jevvishu.org - appears on the
brochure cover.
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