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Overview |
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Youth Shabbat & Celebrations |
10 Guiding Principals |
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Overview |
Schedule |
Youth Shabbat & Celebrations |
10 Guiding Principals |
Library |
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Our Hebrew School engages Jewish children and their parents in the celebration of Jewish life and
Jewish learning. We provide a well-rounded Jewish education and opportunities to socialize
with other Jewish children so they can be part of a larger Jewish community. Our
family-centered community allows us to combine the advantage of a group setting while approaching each
child as an individual. Our teachers are entirely volunteer members of the congregation, providing an additional opportunity to enhance our children’s sense of community. School enrollment is available to children of member families. |
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In addition to our congregational service schedule, we offer special prayer and celebration
opportunities for synagogue youth...
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Our 10 Guiding Principals | |
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1. We rely on parental participation and family involvement in the running of our school and carrying Jewish life into the home. 2. We encourage parents to be students of Judaism as well so they can reinforce Jewish learning and Jewish life at home. 3. We believe our Hebrew School is an integral part of our congregation. Students and their families are encouraged to participate in the life of the congregation. 4. We use Jewish value-based lesson plans, situational occurrences and classroom discussion to teach religious values and beliefs and mentshlikeit behavior. 5. We aim for our students and their families to be knowledgeable about basic Jewish customs and confident in performing Jewish rituals. 6. We teach relevance of Jewish life by using our Jewish values to guide our interactions within the larger American society. 7. We are inclusive and sensitive, as we help families in various configurations raise Jewish children so they will embrace Judaism and assist them in developing strong and positive Jewish identities. 8. We provide our students with an awareness of basic Jewish texts and episodes in Jewish history that help them understand who they are as Jews today. 9. We enable our students to utilize the Hebrew language as an important vehicle for prayer and Jewish identification. 10. We bring Jewish children together since many of our students attend secular schools where they may be the only Jewish student, demonstrating the importance of community in Judaism. |
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The Lillian Kranzel Library at Temple Beth Shalom provides a congregational resource in Judaism
and Reconstructionism, as well as background material for the educational and Rabbinical needs
of the Temple. Over the last twenty years, the collection has grown to 1500 volumes covering
Jewish History, Jewish Fiction, spirituality, Jewish humor and more. The library includes a set
of the Talmud, the Midrash, the Jewish Encyclopedia, and a many children's books of Jewish
interest. |
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