Temple Beth Hillel-Beth El
YOUTH-SCHOOL COMMUNITY AT-AGLANCE
Education / Youth
Calendar
Religious School
Committee Info Religious School
Full Year Calendar and Handbook - 5768
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Sylvia F. Lodish Religious School
Ø Conservative supplementary Jewish school focusing on Hebrew language through prayer, holidays, Torah, Jewish history, and culture.
Ø Gan, Aleph (Grades K, 1) meet Sundays, 9:00-12:15
Ø Bet-Zayin (Grades 2-7) meet Sunday, Wednesday 5 ½ hours (grades 3-7 must attend 10 Shabbat morning services / year & grade 2 must attend 5)
Ø Special class Shabbat services, family education programs, music, Israeli Dance, Synagogue skills, all-school programs
Ø Hazzanut Enrichment class – students learn intensive synagogue skills. Meets Monday afternoons in spring.
Ø One-night per week Jewish high school offering an array of required and elective courses in Jewish text study, history, Jewish life and belief.
Ø Grades 8-12
Ø Confirmation after Grade 11: includes special programs, semester long study with Rabbi Cooper, open to tenth graders who complete 3 years at a Day School or 2-day community supplementary school as well.
Ø Teacher Training course for high school seniors
Ø All students fulfill a 25 hour/ year Life Experience requirement
Ø Weekly dinner and Ma’ariv (evening service)
Ø High School Speakers Forum: Special programs throughout the year, some with other high schools, some open to all teens in the community
Ø Weekly Tot Shabbat for pre-school children and their parents
Ø Weekly Youth Services (when Religious School is in session):
o Junior Congregation (Grades K-2) - Room 201-202 - Leader:
o Learner’s Minyan (Grades 3-4) - Room 203-204 - Leader:
o Youth Services (Grades 3-7) - Chapel or Coslov - Leader: Larry Kaplan
o USY/ Teen Service: 1 x month - (Grades 8-12) - Youth Activities Center
Ø 7 different services for children on Rosh HaShanah and Yom Kippur
Ø Youth Services Director - Larry Kaplan
Ø Informal educational, social and religious programming for children grades 1-12 in four different youth groups. Professional advisors work with synagogue educators, committee, and teens to plan activities.
Ø Ari Schwartz, Children’s Program Director serves as the advisor for Boatnim, Portzim, and Chaverim, in addition to her work assisting in programs in the Religious School.
Ø Boatnim (Grades 1-2): One activity/ month
Ø Portzim (Grades 3-4): One activity/ month
Ø Chaverim (Grades 5-7): One or two activities/ month; regional programs through Hagesher Delaware Valley region Kadima
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USY:
United Synagogue Youth (Grades 8-12): many social, cultural and religious
activities; joint programs with other Main Line congregations; regional
conventions, dances, and activities through Hagesher Delaware Valley region USY;
International Convention; Summer programs- USY on Wheels, Israel Pilgrimage.
Please contact
Adina Matusow
if you have any questions about getting involved. amatusow@tbhbe.org or
610-649-2277 (ext. 123).
Ø Camp Ramah and Ramah Day Camp: Temple Beth Hillel-Beth El sends many of our children to these Conservative Movement summer programs
Rabbi
Leah Richman, Educational Director
lrichman@tbhbe.org
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Page Last Updated:
04/06/2008