Rabbi Joe Klein
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Previous Presentations

Grosse Pointe Jewish Council
          Fall 2022 Adult Education Series 
     Sing a New Psalm


     Grosse Pointe Jewish Council
          Winter 2022 Adult Education Series 
     From Exile to Enlightenment

         Exile to Destruction: 586 BCE - 70 CE
         Destruction to Medieval Period: 70 - 630
        Islam to Mysticism: 630 - 1500

          Chasidism to Haskalah: 1500 – 1800 

 Temple Emanu-El Fall Adult Education
       Eight week series -- November/December 2021
The Parting of the Ways: Judaism and Early Christianity, 2nd - 5th C

   Grosse Pointe Jewish Council
       2021 Spring Sunday Series II

A Jewish Understanding of the Writings of Paul

  Grosse Pointe Jewish Council
    2021 Spring Sunday Series 

Tell Me Why-- The History and Evolution of Mitzvote

 Grosse Pointe Jewish Council
    2020 Fall Sunday Series
Tell Me Why-- The History and Evolution of our Life-Cycle Events

Grosse Pointe Jewish Council
   2020 Spring Sunday Series 
19th C Zionism: Philosophers and Politicians (1881 - 1914)
Feet on the Ground: Pioneers of the First and Second Aliya (1881 – 1914)
 Two World Wars, the UN and the Declaration of Independence (1914 – 1947)


Grosse Pointe Jewish Council
         2019 Fall Sunday Series 

From Exile to the Enlightenment
Sephardic Success in the Muslim World
Our Unique American Judaism



Congregation Shaarey Zedek  -- Berman Night of Learning
 August 8, 2019
Thank God We Got Out of the Garden


Limmud Michigan
March 31, 2019, Jewish Community Center
Making Sense of the Ineffable Name


Grosse Pointe Jewish Council
Spring 2019 Sunday Series

The Rest of the Story: The Spring and Summer Festivals

Grosse Pointe Jewish Council
Fall 2018 Sunday Series

The Rest of the Story: The Fall Festivals

Scholar's Colloquy at Marygrove College
October 9, 2018
What Can We Learn From Nachman: Religion and Social Movements


Limmud Michigan
March 11, 2018, Wayne State University
A Rabbi Reads the Apostle Paul


Grosse Pointe Jewish Council
Spring 2018 Sunday Series -- from the Book of Exodus

What did the people really hear at Sinai? 
Boiling a kid? – Really?!
Golden Calf as Polemical Allegory
Another 10 Commandments?!
 Did the Exodus from Egypt Really Happen?


FedEd @ Congregation Shir Tikveh
March and October 2018

Our Spring Festivals --- The Rest of the Story
​Our Fall and Winter Festivals -- The Rest of the Story


Greenfield Presbyterian Church  (Berkley MI), March 13,  2018
Jesus' Jerusalem-- A Guided Tour 


Grosse Pointe Jewish Council
Fall 2017 Sunday Series -- from the Book of Exodus

A Radical Re-Reading of Exodus Chapter 1
Reviewing the Documentary Hypothesis

"Bridegroom of Blood" & What About God's Name?
Re-Imagining the 10 Plagues
Pharaoh's "Heavy Heart"

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Grosse Pointe Jewish Council
Spring 2017 Sunday Series -- from the Book of Genesis

 Abraham, Rebecca and Jacob
Jacob into Israel: What Goes Around, Comes Around
Judah v. Reuven! And the winner is…

Limmud Michigan
March 19, 2017, Wayne State University
Who Was Jesus? And how did he become the Jewish Messiah of the Church?


Sholem Aleichem Institute
January 29, 2017, JCC

Brundage, Jews and the Nazi Olympics

Grosse Pointe Congregational Church
November 3, 2016

A History of the Conflict Between Israel and the Palestinians

Grosse Pointe Jewish Council
Fall 2016 Sunday Series -- from the Book of Genesis

Genesis 1 & 2-- Which Creation Story is Correct?
Genesis 3 -- Thank God We Got Out of the Garden!
Genesis 4 -- Cain as Tragic Hero


Previous FedEd/JLearn Courses 
Maimonides’ Guide for the Perplexed
A Jewish Understanding of the Synoptic Gospels
A Jewish Understanding of Paul ‘s Epistles
A Jewish Understanding of “The Parting of the Ways”
Jewish Messianism
The History, Development and Challenge of Reform Judaism

Observance: Festivals, Life-Cycle, Rites, Rituals and Daily Life
Worship and Belief
A Brief History of Judaism: Abraham to America

Genesis & Exodus: Reading Them Again For The First  Time
The Five M'gillot
The Star and the Crescent: A History of Jewish/Muslim Relations
The Invention of Judaism
​Theology, Faith and Prayer


Rochester College
Class Presentations, Winter Semester 2015 

The Two Creation Stories
Cain: Tragic Hero
The Jacob Cycle


Scholars' Colloquy at Marygrove College
October 2014

Searching for Spirituality? What's Wrong with Madonna's Kabbalah.

Paper presented to the Midwest Jewish Studies Association
September 2014, Kent State University

Making Jewish Sense of Paul's Theology

Grosse Pointe Jewish Council
August/September 2014 Sunday Series

Understanding Early Christianity

Congregation Shaarey Zedek (E. Lansing MI)
February 2014 “Scholar Weekend”


Greenfield Presbyterian Church  (Berkley MI), January 2014,  Series of Four Presentations

The Book of Exodus: Text & Texture 

Temple Emanu-El (Oak Park MI), January 2014 Book Review

Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth





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