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Beth Shalom Religious School
Registration 2010-2011 School Calendar 2010-2011 Parent Handbook 2010-2011
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MISSION STATEMENT
Our school and community will educate and inspire our students through exceptional learning opportunities. Our Religious School aims to cultivate life-long Jewish identification, community participation, and Hebrew and Judaic knowledge in a loving, caring, nurturing, and fun learning environment that includes spiritual, ethical, and social experiences.
OUR GOALS
Language: Students will be able to:
- read scripture texts,
- read and lead prayers,
- read script and print Modern Hebrew,
- understand simple Modern Hebrew,
- understand, basic prayer themes,
- write simple Hebrew sentences.
Prayer: Students will be able to:
- Appreciate prayer as a resource for spiritual expression, connecting to G- d and bonding with the Jewish community in America, abroad and in Israel.
- Learn to see prayer as a record of our people’s history, a repository of Jewish values, Hebrew poetic imagination, and a language for the individual to express his or her place in the world.
Services: Students will be able to participate comfortably in Shabbat evening and morning services, holiday services, and to summarize the major themes of the Shabbat prayers.
Bible: Students will be able to outline the major narrative episodes of the Hebrew Bible and relate them to modern life and religion including ethical observance.
Observance and rituals: Students will be able to describe the principal observances and celebrations of the Jewish year and Jewish life-cycle events and to carry out the home rituals associated with them.
Literature: Students will have an overview of the major styles of Jewish literature (Bible, Talmud, codes, commentary, prayer, poetry), and a basic knowledge of content (Bible characters, traditional Jewish law, etc.).
Culture: Students will have a repertoire of Jewish songs, dances, and creative arts experiences in order to participate in the full range of Jewish cultural achievement and communal life.
Values: Students will understand how to use Jewish resources to make moral and ethical decisions.
The Beth Shalom Religious School offers classes for children in grades K - 10. Our goal is to educate students to be Conservative Jews by providing a curriculum that meets individual and family needs. Our Religious School program provides innovative family programs in an environment that is supportive of the efforts of both students and teachers.
Religious School for Grades K-2 meets every Sunday morning for two hours. Grades 3 - 7 meet every Sunday morning and on Wednesday afternoons. Our post Bar and Bat Mitzvah class meets every Wednesday evening.
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