Pockets of diverse Jewish life exist throughout the city and its suburbs, offering a variety of unique and meaningful opportunities for students at the College to connect and build community.
Jewish social groups:
- Jewish Graduate Student Network
- Tribe 12
- Moishe House Philadelphia
- Russian Speaking Jewish (RSJ) Moishe House
Jewish cultural, volunteer, and educational organizations:
- The Jewish Exponent weekly newspaper
- Jewish Relief Agency
- Philadelphia Jewish Film and Media
- Weitzman National Museum of American Jewish History
- Feinstein Center for American Jewish History
- Old City Jewish Arts Center
- Gratz College
- Center City Kehillah
- Kaiserman JCC
- Kleinlife
- Jewish Learning Venture
- Theatre Ariel
Synagogues:
There are dozens of congregations in the Philadelphia region, including 12 Reconstructionist congregations and havurot affiliated with Reconstructing Judaism:
Congregation Beth Israel, Media (Delaware County), PA
Congregation Kol Emet, Yardley (Bucks County), PA
Congregation Shireinu, Gladwyne (Montgomery County), PA
Kehilat HaNahar, New Hope (Bucks County), PA
Kol Tzedek, West Philadelphia (Philadelphia), PA
Leyv Ha-Ir, Center City (Philadelphia), PA
Minyan Dorshei Derekh, West Mount Airy (Philadelphia), PA
Mishkan Shalom, Manayunk (Philadelphia), PA
Or Hadash, Fort Washington (Montgomery County), PA
Temple B’nai Abraham, Bordentown, NJ
Temple Beth El, Allentown, PA
Tzedek v’Shalom, Newtown (Bucks County), PA
