What does a Jewish girl do when she finishes school? She might enrol at university or take a gap year and travel Europe or the Far East. If she is a religious girl, there is a good chance that she'd study at a women's seminary in Israel, the UK or the USA.
Unfortunately, not every girl who wants to study in seminary gets the chance to do so. Many girls who want to get started on their degree would love to further their Jewish study at the same time. Typically, her choices have been black or white: Either travel abroad or put Jewish study on the back burner.
Now, thanks to the foresight and enthusiasm of Chaya Avtzon, girls will have the chance to progress their Jewish learning, as they study in college. Starting this coming Tuesday evening, girls from around Joburg, representing a wide range of communities, will join together for SA's first-ever "Night Sem".
For now, the programme runs one night a week, on a Tuesday, but the vision is to have this unique programme grow and expand.
Semester one sees two classes, Rabbi Carlebach's on the Parsha and Rabbi Shishler's on "Stories from the Tanach that everyone misunderstands", followed by a Pilates class.
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