Education

An Introduction by Rabbi Levine | A Message From the President
Grant | Parent's Manual

An introduction by Rabbi Reuben R. Levine

In conducting a Religious School we see our role as a partnership with our parents in nurturing soundly grounded, proudly and happily identified Jewish children. This entails touching on the many areas and feelings that interplay in making a person who he/she is. In the case of Jewish education there are four areas which we delineate. One is identity – our relationship to our group. This is fostered through defining our connection to the JEWISH PEOPLE , its history and culture, and learning how we share that heritage and how it has meaning in our lives. Another area of our Jewishness is TORAH , the Bible, the lore surrounding it and how its teachings influence our civilization. Then comes the “doing", the JEWISH PRACTICES that create the celebratory structure through which we encounter our Life Cycle events and our Calendar Holiday Observances. Finally there is the very special area of personal behavior and our relationship to society; the choices we make vis a vis right and wrong, for which we turn to JEWISH ETHICS. Here we find guidance and the basis of Mitzvot that color Jewish behavior. Though these four elements can be spoken of separately, they function in concert and are interlayered in the creation of the Jewish personality. In our educational approach we try to integrate these four “pillars" of Jewish education into the overall curriculum and into the atmosphere of school activities. With parental partnering we hope to achieve the objective of creating knowledgeable, proud and happily involved young Jews.

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A message from Steve Permison, President and Founding Member of Hevrat Shalom

Dear Parents,

Our religious education program is expanding. Six additional sessions have been added to our Sunday Religious School which will continue to meet Sunday mornings beginning in October.  Our Hebrew program has also been expanded and will be taught Wednesday evenings. Rabbi Saltzman will participate both as the overall Education Program Director and as faculty for our weekday Hebrew program.  Mara Radis will continue as the schools’ Associate Program Director aided again by Dickson Kendrick as our School Administrator.

Through a grant to Hevrat Shalom Congregation from the Jewish Federation of Greater Washington, Initiative in Congregational Education (ICE), we will again be able to expand the number of special programs, such as family education. These programs will be integrated into our schools’ curriculum and will help to tie what is learned in the classrooms to resources available in the Greater Washington Jewish community.

Our curriculum and school calendar may be found in our Religious School Manual which is currently being edited; it will be distributed during our opening session in October.

We look forward to an instructive, challenging and fun-filled academic new year.

Shalom,

Steve Permison

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Grant

Through a grant to Hevrat Shalom Congregation from the Jewish Federation of Greater Washington, Initiative in Congregational Education (ICE), we will again be able to provide an expanded family education program. Family Education programs will be integrated into our school’s curriculum and help tie what is learned in the classrooms to resources available in the Greater Washington Jewish community.

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Parent's Manual and Dates of Classes

The Parent's Manual is being revised.

Click here for dates and times of classes.

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