Congregation Emeth offers a full range of Religious School, Hebrew School, and Youth programs, focused on building the Jewish identities of our children from birth to college.
This year, with your enthusiastic support, Congregation Emeth’s Religious School will begin a new innovative approach to Jewish learning. We will not only be teaching your children Jewish values and how to live a Jewish life; we will also be demonstrating it by offering a complete pedagogic package of learning and doing.
Our Religious School now begins every Friday at 4:30 PM and continues to 6:00 PM. After a 15 minute break, students will join their entire family (grandparents and siblings, too!) in an Erev Shabbat meal, where they will learn and practice Shabbat rituals (blessings over the candles, wine and bread). Following dinner, Shabbat services will take place, most geared for all ages. Remember, we always had services as part of our curriculum and we always offered a community meal. This year, the services and meal are in celebration of Shabbat but are still part of our school curriculum!
Grades K-7 Religious School
- Meets most Fridays from 4:30pm - 6:00 pm, followed by Shabbat Dinner and Services.
- Includes both age-specific formal education and community-building informal education
- Focus: Jewish identity development in the areas of ethics, spirituality, texts, history, and rituals and traditions
- Meets most Fridays from 4:30pm - 6:00 pm, followed by Shabbat Dinner and Services.
- Includes both age-specific formal education and community-building informal education
- Focus: Jewish identity development in the areas of Torah interpretation and prayer leading skills and synagogue rituals and traditions.
- Meets periodically with the Rabbi for private instruction in the months before the Bar/Bat Mitzvah
- Alef-Bet Level meets on Tuesdays from 4:30 - 6pm
- Gimel-Dalet Level meets on Wednesdays from 4:30 - 6pm
- Focus: Building Hebrew skills, Torah reading, and building prayer vocabulary and leadership skills
- Meets every other Thursday from 7:00-8:30 pm
- Informal Jewish education, conducted like a club, led by a club leader
- At the end of 10th grade, students enrolled in Emeth Dor Kef participate in a Confirmation Ceremony
- Focus: Community-building, social action, educational, and religious activities promoting leadership and identity development
Please contact us for information about any of our educational programs:
- Rebecca Kaminsky, Religious School Principal
- Becky Neto, Education Director
- Debbie Zajac, School Administrator
- Rabbi Debbie Israel, Educational Supervisor
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