In just one year, adult Jewish learning opportunities have nearly tripled in Metro New York as Me'ah opens 15 first-year classes this fall. In addition to the eight second-year classes that attracted crowds last fall, the new classes bring total enrollment to around 500.

Me'ah sites will be located in Manhattan, Brooklyn, Riverdale and Long Island. The newly formed Northern Westchester Me'ah Project will feature classes at the Congregation Sons of Israel in Briarcliff Manor and the UJA-Federation of New York's Mt. Kisco offices. A second collaborative, the Princeton Area Me'ah Project, will conduct classes at The Jewish Center in Princeton, N.J., and several local congregations.

Two partnerships were recently established with Congregation B'nai Jeshurun—known for its large, eclectic following—and Central Synagogue, a national historical site and one of the leading Reform synagogues in Manhattan. Moshe Margolin, New York regional director of Me'ah, hopes that Me'ah's expansion, new partnerships with diverse congregations and faculty from NYU, JTS, Rutgers and Princeton will reflect the denominational spectrum of the New York Jewish community.

In a further effort to broaden its constituency, Me'ah plans to offer classes open to the public at both The Museum of Jewish Heritage—A Living Memorial to the Holocaust and the Board of Jewish Education of Greater New York. For more information about Me'ah classes in the Metro New York area, contact mmargolin@hebrewcollege.edu.

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