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JEWiSh CuLturAL SChooL
See Congregations, Jewish Cultural Society
JLi - JEWiSh LEArninG inStitutE
Chabad House, 715 Hill Street 48104
tel: 99-LEARN (995-3276)
Rabbi Aharon Goldstein, instructor
Presented in synchrony in 350 cities
nationwide and around the world, Jewish
Learning Institute classes are presented
locally by specially trained educators,
including Ann Arbor Chabad House Rabbi
Aharon Goldstein. Since its inception in
1998, JLI programs have been attended
by nearly 40,000 people, and hundreds of
thousands of others join in electronically
through JLI on-line message boards and
Internet based channels. More than 80
people in Ann Arbor have participated in
the 14 JLI classes offered since 2006. An
additional three classes will be held in
the next 12 months, with two sessions
each per week.
KEShEt Ann ArBor
milka@umich.edu
Milka Eliav, program director
Keshet is an academic program for high
school student, offering the opportunity to
take Hebrew classes to fulfill the Foreign
Language requirement, and receive high
school credit as if it was any other high
school class at their school. At Keshet,
students meet twice a week for a total
of four hours and study Modern Hebrew
with professional language instructors,
some of which are also U-M lecturers.
Classes are small, allowing teachers to focus
on their students’ progress and lessons
are dynamic and communicative.
As with other academic high school
courses, students are expected to complete
homework, take quizzes, exams, and
occasionally prepare class presentations.
Attendance and participation are key. Class
material is level appropriate and naturally
contains cultural components such as
Israeli movies, songs, newspapers and
more, to make the language learning
experience wholesome and well rounded.
Keshet offers four levels of Hebrew, from
beginners to advanced, and students come
from all walks of the Ann Arbor community.
Not all Keshet students take it for credit;
some are there for their love of the language
and their sincere interest in learning how to
communicate in Hebrew. These driven teens
are an integral part of classes; they attend
small class sizes
child-centered learning
academic excellence
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