Education: Religious School
Religious School is on summer break.
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Teachers' Bios
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Religious School Administrative Staff
Enrollment
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We are deeply committed to our vision of a Religious School - a vision which
can only become real with the active participation of parents. Parents are
required to attend Shabbat programs (Rabbi's Study Session, Services, Torah
Discussion, Community Lunch) as much as the children. We ask one simple
thing: what you want for your children, get for yourself. That's why we have
our Religious School on Shabbat, so that we are not a drop-off school. While
the children are learning, observing & celebrating Judaism, so are their
parents. Thus, all religious education is family education.
Our Vision
In our Religious School, we teach our children to be religious, in the best
sense of the term.
A religion is made up of a community. We teach our students the principles
and skills of responsible behavior in all their communities: family,
friends, school and the synagogue.
A religion is rooted in a tradition, the rituals that shape the way they see
the world. We teach our children not only the observance of our religion,
but why we do what we do, what the meanings are, and the spectrum of ways
that modern Jews observe.
A religion is rooted in a teaching. We teach our children to love Torah, in
all of its complexity, beauty and inexhaustible mystery. They learn to
revere the wisdom in our heritage and to let it shape their minds and
morals, and to add constantly their questions, their insights, their spirit.
Torah is not just a set of texts, it is an on going project. We teach them
to be part of that project, and to love doing it.
A religion celebrates our deepest beliefs and experiences. We teach our
children the deeper joy that is present in a spiritual discipline, and the
happiness we can create in observance of Shabbat and Holidays.
