About

About Torah2Go

Jewish learningbuilt for home.

Source-based curriculum for children outside Jewish day school.

Meet the founder

Our purpose

A warm welcome. Primary sources.

Jewish education should not depend on geography or a parent’s teaching background.

Jewish Kids Learning Club is a 36-week school-year program in Torah, Navi (Prophets), Tehillim (Psalms), and Mishnah for ages 7–13. It repeats each year, going deeper as children grow.

Free for families: a sample unit and a 10-week summer tefillah course, plus the Jewish Kids Craft Club.

Meet the founder

Menachem Drelich

Founder and Curriculum Director

Menachem Drelich is a Jewish scholar with semicha (rabbinic ordination) and a classroom educator, trained in Crown Heights. His experience spans Talmud instruction, Released Time (weekday Jewish classes for children in public school), summer learning programs, and online elementary education. He currently teaches fifth-grade Judaic studies at the Shluchim Online School.

He grew up in Edmonton, Alberta, where his parents, Rabbi Ari and Rebbetzin Rifka Drelich, arrived as Chabad emissaries in 1991 and continue to lead Chabad Lubavitch of Edmonton. Its programs include monthly Shabbat dinners, a children’s day camp, and hospital visits. Torah2Go carries that open-door approach into learning: families start where they are. Torah2Go is an independent nonprofit, not part of any Chabad-Lubavitch organization.

Experience & history

The teaching came first.

Founder experience precedes the organization; Torah2Go milestones begin in 2019.

  1. Founder

  2. 2016

    Talmud instructor

    Taught Talmud at Yeshivas Tomchei Temimim Lubavitch in the Poconos.

  3. 2017

    Released Time instructor

    Taught Jewish junior high students in Sheepshead Bay through Sheloh, the Released Time program of the National Committee for the Furtherance of Jewish Education.

  4. 2017

    Ivy League Torah Study Fellowship

    Taught Talmud to Jewish college students in this six-week summer program of the National Committee for the Furtherance of Jewish Education, now called the Jewish Summer Fellowship .

  5. 2018

    Semicha

    Ordained by Rav Zusha Winner and Rabbi Yosef Barber, after completing studies at Tomchei Temimim Lubavitch in Crown Heights.

  6. After 2018

    Advanced study

    Spent a year in Kollel (full-time advanced Talmud study) in Crown Heights, under the auspices of Merkos L’Inyonei Chinuch and Rav Yosef Heller.

  7. 2019–2021

    Edmonton Community Kollel

    Joined the Edmonton Community Kollel.

  8. Torah2Go

  9. 2019

    Torah2Go begins

    Founded by Menachem Drelich. Early educational materials are preserved in the Internet Archive. View the 2020 archive

  10. 2023

    Nonprofit incorporation and IRS recognition

    Incorporated as a nonprofit and recognized by the IRS as a 501(c)(3) organization in April 2023. View the filings

  11. 2024

    Jewish Kids Learning Club launches

    The 36-week annual curriculum for children outside Jewish day school launches.

  12. Today

    Teaching and development continue

    Continues teaching while developing Torah2Go’s home-learning curriculum.

2019

Founded

2023

Incorporated as a nonprofit

501(c)(3)

IRS-recognized, April 2023

92-3442167

Federal EIN

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Pods bring nearby families together to learn. Families and pods are active in 12 locations across the United States and Australia, and we’d like to reach more. If you’d like to help start one where you live, let’s talk.

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