10:00 am - 12:30 pm
Once a month on Sundays starting October 2025
(Register below)
HAMAKOM is excited to partner with JTeenLearning to provide our community with a meaningful and accessible post-Bar and Bat Mitzvah program. Participation in the JTLC will enable students to continue their Jewish education, while deepening their identity, cultivating their leadership, and facilitating connections between like-minded teens in the community.
We invite Jewish teens (8th-12th grade) throughout the San Fernando and Conejo Valley to meet on Sundays (10am-12:30pm) once a month during the school-year for unique learning and advocacy training. Sessions start in November and will feature diverse guest speakers, roundtable discussions on contemporary issues, community service credit, and a dynamic social environment.
The monthly seminar will explore Jewish identities, wrestle with ethical dilemmas, build connections through cohort discussions, social and educational field trips, and relationship building activities. This deep dive is meant for those that are curious, thoughtful, and interested in challenging what they think they know about Judaism, while learning from guest speakers and like-minded peers!
Topics include: complex relationships, environmentalism, current global and local events, anti-Semitism, Israel, and Jewish life.
Seminar Schedule
- JTLC #1 = Jewish Wisdom: Teshuvah & Repair (October 2025)
- JTLC #2 = Jewish Civics: Tzedek & Tzedakah (November 2025)
- JTLC #3 = Global Jewry: Journey through Food & Music (December 2025)
- JTLC# 4 = Kashrut and Ethical Consumerism (January 2026)
- JTLC #5 = The U.S.-Israel relationship (February 2026)
- JTLC #6 = FIELD TRIP: Jewish Life in America (March 2026)
- JTLC #7 = Holocaust & Combatting Antisemitism Today (April 2026)
- JTLC #8 = Jews in the Media (May 2026)
Fees
- $500 per HAMAKOM student with a $100 sibling discount
- $720 for non-HAMAKOM members
For questions, please contact Erica Katsel (JTLC Founder & Lead Educator) at erica@jteenlearning.com.
