Home > Education > Adult and Family Education > The Rabbi Samuel Scolnic Adult Institute
The Rabbi Samuel Scolnic Adult Institute offers classes in a wide variety of Jewish subjects, including traditional Torah study, history, culture, Israel, philosophy, ethics, law, literature, music, and art.
Our clergy teach every fall and spring semester along with other rabbis and educators and experts on specific topics of interest.
Each semester is six weeks long.
If you have any questions, please email scolnicinstitute@bethelmc.org.
The Rabbi Samuel Scolnic Adult Institute was formerly known as the Saul Bendit Adult Institute.
Click here to view the Fall 2025 catalog
The Fall 2025 semester of the Samuel Scolnic Adult Institute will begin Tuesday and Wednesday, October 21 and 22.
The Rabbi Samuel Scolnic Adult Institute is being refreshed! Classes are available in person (no recording) at Beth El or via Zoom. Classes begin October 21 and 22. Click here to view the Fall 2025 catalog and read more about the new format.
If you have questions, please email scolnicinstitute@bethelmc.org.
Registration before October 8: $75/class for members and $85/class for nonmembers Registration on October 8 or later: $80/class for members and $90/class for nonmembers
Register for the Fall 2025 Semester
<span data-mce-type="bookmark" style="display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;" class="mce_SELRES_start"></span>
To honor the memory of Judith Scolnic z”l, the Scolnic Institute committee hosted a lecture to inaugurate the Fall 2022 semester of classes. Rabbi Benjamin Scolnic, son of Beth El’s Rabbi Samuel Scolnic z”l, and Judith Scolnic z”l, delivered a talk entitled Did Democratic Ideals Begin in Early Israel?
Click here to view the recording from the lecture.
