​Click the links below to watch four short video presentations with Rabbi Klein
              (2023 and 2024, JLearn "Sneak Peek Week")
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      "Thank God We Got Out of the Garden" 
      "Cain as Tragic Hero" 
      "The 'Ten Commandments' - What did the people actually hear?"
       "Pharoah's Heavy Heart" 

       
​                                                 Rabbi Klein teaches each year September- May
                                            in the Federation's JLearn Adult Education Program.
                                                     For registration information and course fees 
                     (248) 205-2557 • E-MAIL: [email protected] or go to https://thejdetroit.org/culture-education/jlearn/


JLearn Fall 2025
21st C Jews and a 1st C Theology: Faith, Belief and the Prayerbook
The theology of the Biblical Israelites and the rabbis of 2000 years ago does not work for 21st C Jews. This course explores the background and development of the traditional siddur, past challenges to its theology, and possible responses and changes that modern Jews might make to our prayerbook, that prayer and worship might be more satisfying and meaningful.
    The seder of the siddur
    Why Biblical theology doesn’t work
    God has a “name”?!
    Challenges to Biblical theology: Philo, ibn Ezra, Maimonides, Spinoza
    Theodicy and Rabbi Harold Kushner
    Affirming the affect of the traditional siddur
    Can we, and should we, rewrite the siddur?
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JLearn Winter 2026
Jews in America: Insiders and Outsiders
Jews have been in America since 1654, coming in three waves of immigration, each with its own response to “becoming American”. In what ways have we preserved Jewish distinctiveness as “American Jews”? In what ways have we acculturated as “Jewish Americans”? This course is about our story in America, answering the question “Is there room for ethnic and religious distinctiveness, and if so what form should that distinctiveness take?” Are we looking at integration, acculturation or assimilation? 

 
JLearn Spring 2026
Reading the Gospels with the Rabbi
We know something about the New Testament Gospels, hearing about them each year at Christmas and Easter, but Jews don’t usually study them to see what they really say. Rabbi Klein will explore the three “Synoptic Gospels” of Matthew, Mark, and Luke as they separately tell the story of Jesus, his mission and his message to the Jews. Each has a different history and very different perspective on Jews, Judaism, and being “in covenant” with God. ​For the Jewish community, productive and meaningful interfaith dialogue depends upon our understanding these Christian Gospels.  

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​Rabbi Klein is Adjunct Professor at Oakland University and Rochester Christian University  
Ketuvim: Psalms, Song of Songs, Ecclesiastes, and Job, Rochester Christian University, Fall Semester 2025
Introduction to Judaism, Oakland University, Winter Semester 2026
American Jewish Experience, Oakland University, Fall 2026
The Book of Exodus, Rochester Christian University, Winter Semester 2027



                                                           November 3, 2025
          Laasok.org (a national online, inclusive, egalitarian beit midrash, a “house of study”)
                                          “Cain as Tragic Hero” https://youtu.be/kqA-CM1b2us

                                                   
                                                                 February 20-22, 2026
                           Theologian-in-Residence --  Grosse Ile Presbyterian Church
​                                                     "Introduction to Judaism"
                                                          "Sing a New Psalm"
                                                   "Superman's Secret Identity"