​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 2026
Reading Paul’s Epistles with the Rabbi
The New Testament Gospels are not the earliest evidence of the Jesus-community. Paul’s seven letters, written in the 50s and early 60s, precede the Gospel accounts. Paul’s message and mission to non-Jews that they too can become part of Am Yisrael, the People Israel, is in Paul’s mind, a very Jewish message. How does the Jewish Paul, who never would have considered himself a “convert”, become the single most important factor in the growth and development of Christianity, only to have his message rejected by the Early Christian Church?

JLearn Winter 2027
The “Parting of the Ways”
In the later years of the 1st C, the Jesus community understood itself to be wholly (and “holy”) within the family of Judaism. When the rabbis at the turn of the century rejected and prohibited their presence, the Jesus-folk formed their own community and competed with Rabbinic Judaism for converts in the diaspora. As the groups “parted ways”, each vilified the other. This course examines primary texts from both Early Christianity and Rabbinic Judaism.

JLearn Spring 2027
​The Invention of Judaism: Babylon to Judea to Diaspora
The Israelite Religion of our Bible is not the Judaism we live today. The invention of Judaism begins with the 6th C BCE Babylonian destruction of Judea, develops in the Second Temple period, but only matures in the Diaspora. This course will focus on the invention and expansion of Judaism from the 6th C BCE to the 6th C CE and beyond to modern times.​​

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                                                      Guest Rabbi, July 2026
                                  First Hebrew Congregation (South Haven MI)
                                "What's Wrong With The Ten Commandments?"

                                               Guest Preacher, August 2026
                                      Omena Presbyterian Church, Omena MI   
                                      “It wasn’t an apple” (Genesis 2:25-3:7)
                                       
                                                            October 2026
                                       Grosse Pointe Jewish Council -- Fall Series
                        "Reading Genesis Again For The First Time -- chapters 1-4"

                                            
Rabbi Klein is Adjunct Professor at Oakland University and Rochester Christian University  
American Jewish Experience, Oakland University, Fall 2026
The Book of Exodus, Rochester Christian University, Winter Semester 2027
Introduction to Judaism, Oakland University, Winter Semester 2027