Hello All; We are having wonderful experience in Jerusalem taking 10 courses at Pardes(5), ODED(4), City of David(1).
Pardes is a school within the modern Orthodox camp meaning men and women can study together and the name  is derived from the idea that if you know the deep 4 levels of meaning of every word of the bible you can enter Pardes or in English Paradise. The Rabbis are very good and each class of 1.5 hrs frequently has pair study where 2 or 3 persons examine some text closely in a very large room with 50 other such groups doing the same thing. Noise level is high but concentration is high also. Courses;
1.Nachmanides and his  commentary on the weekly Torah portion. He lived in Spain in last part of 1100's and the moved to Israel where     he lived only 3 years.  His common name is the RAMBAN and was an incredible scholar and writer.
2. Important Rabbis of the Talmud. The Talmud is the oral tradition of Judaism where the Rabbis from 50- 600 CE  discussed every unclear, need update, or unfinished story , law detail , or expansion of every story of the Bible. It was started to be collected and organized In 150CE in Zippori a small town in the north that the Roman did allow study to continue. It was passed orally till 500CE when it was finally written down in Israel and even more importantly also in  Babylon ( where Jews were since destruction of first Temple in 586BCE ) now Iraq! Each week we studyy a different famous Rabbi and his writings.

3. What's above and whats Ahead. A course about God, angels ( yes in Judaism  too and first course), and the after life. The Rabbi is from England and that gives a slightly differ perspective.

4,  early Zionist Leaders; We read Ahad Ha'am, Herzl, Jabotinsky, and others

At the Jewish Conservative Center in Israel where the name is Masorti not Conservative. Full name of center is Fuchsberg Jerusalem Center where they have a yeshiva (also as Pardes) but we study in the adult ODED Continuing Education.

5. Minor Prophets. We are studying Malachi in great detail/ Some days we only cover 4 sentences. Rabbi is Gail Diamond who is very good.

6. Torah portion of the week. Rabbi brings in many relevant commentaries from the Talmud to explain  the weekly passage.

7. Archiology of the First temple period with  an very interesting British lawyer turned archaeologist last 30 years. He  also covered King Herod since the Israel Museum has a special exhibit on Herod that just opened. Only 5  years ago was the tomb of Herod discovered in a  tel he built called Herodium. The archaeologist who work there for 30  years before discovering the tomb and palaces and water works incredibly  3 years ago  when his fame and hard work was coming to fruition fell thru a weak fence and died on the site. This is really sad. We went to the exhibit yesterday and it was great. They took aerial shots and then superimposed computer graphic construction of the buildings from the inside out too show how magnificent each was. Herod killed his favorite wife, 3 sons, dozens of Priests when he thought he was going to die so the people would be mourning them and him by extension. It didn't  work as he didn't die then but they did.  So he had some anger  and paranoid issues but we was a great builder of the second Temple and many cities around including Masada his desert get away.

8.  Evolution of the Oral Law. See above on the Talmud. Judaism didn't stop with the Five books of Moses and the Hebrew Bible but constantly adapted, expanded over the years 200 BCE to 900 CE. The problem for modern Jews is whether this tremendous body of knowledge did stop then.  The  big issue in Judaism is whether to continue the process to the present or stop at 900 CE in the Oral Tradition. This is the main controversy between Orthodox Jews and all other Jews.