Serving Grades K-12
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Religious School Registration Online
You can now register online or print out the forms
and mail them in. Remember, there are
fewer class options in Aleph (grade 3) and Bet
(grade four) Hebrew. Placement in classes will
continue to be on a first come first served
basis.
Please read all the instructions before filling
out the forms.
Mission Statement
In the Sayings of the Fathers (which is
studied in Hebrew in our Seventh Grade Hebrew
classes), we are taught that the world is
sustained by three things: Torah, Avodah
(worship), and Gemilut Hasadim (acts of loving
kindness). These three Jewish values also form
the core of our Religious School experience. Our
mission is to create a community in which our
children can develop into Jewish learners,
Jewish seekers, and Jewish doers. We aim to give
our children the knowledge and the skills that
they need to continue to grow as members of this
community throughout their lives.
Goals
The Religious Education Board of North Shore
Congregation Israel has adopted the following
goals for our Religious and Hebrew Schools.
These goals are consistent with those formulated
by the Union of American Hebrew
Congregations/Central Conference of American
Rabbis Curriculum Project.
Reform Jewish Education aims to create:
- Jews who bear witness to the brit (covenant
between God and the Jewish people) through the
practice of mitzvot (commandments) as studied in
the Torah and the classic Jewish literature it
has generated, and as interpreted in the light
of historic development and contemporary liberal
thought;
- Jews who affirm their Jewish identity and bind
themselves inseparably to their people by word
and deed; - Jews who value and practice tefilah
(prayer), and who celebrate Shabbat and
festivals and observe the Jewish practices
marking the significant occasions in their
lives;
- Jews who support and participate in the life
of the synagogue;
- Jews who affirm a spiritual bond to Eretz
Yisrael, the Land of Israel;
- Jews who cherish and study Hebrew, the
language of the Jewish people;
- Jews who further the causes of justice,
freedom, and peace by pursuing tzedek
(righteousness), mishpat (justice), and chesed
(loving deeds);
- Jews who esteem their own person and the
person of others, their own family and the
family of others, their own community and the
community of others; and
- Jews who express kinship with K'lal Yisrael,
the Jewish people, by actively seeking the
welfare of Jews throughout the world.
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