Adult Education

From its opening in 1927 to its closure in 1939, Littman’s People’s Theatre was Detroit’s premier destination for Yiddish-language theatrical performance and film. Managed and founded by Abraham Littman, the theater served as one of the most significant hubs of Yiddish-language cultural production and consumption in Detroit. Nadav Pais-Greenapple is a second-generation Jewish educator from […]

Come learn about the critically important work of SUCHO (Saving Ukrainian Cultural Heritage Online). This international initiative, composed of more than 1,500 volunteers from across the globe, is working furiously to digitize and preserve Ukrainian cultural heritage, including Jewish collections (from prewar musical archives, to 400-year-old Galitzian manuscripts, to texts from presses in Volhynia and […]

“Strikes, bombings, and baked goods.” So reads the history of Michigan’s historical Jewish bakeries. Stacy Fox (president and managing partner of Star and Diamond bakeries) is on hand to discuss this interesting topic and present vintage recipes in this delightful Zoom talk.

In the mid-twentieth century, siblings Seymour and Saul Kaplan owned one of Detroit’s most popular butcher shops: Kaplan Bros. Kosher Meat Market. Its clever advertising campaign highlighted recipes featuring store ingredients. Join Seymour’s son, Richard J. Kaplan, for a delightful look back at the store and the delicious recipes he compiled into a brand-new cookbook.

We are celebrating a half century of women rabbis in America with Karla Goldman, PhD, Sol Drachler Professor of Social Work and Professor of Judaic Studies at the University of Michigan. She is joined by three amazing women rabbis for a first-person conversation about these trailblazing women of valor: Rabbi Amy Bigman (East Lansing’s Congregation […]