Judaics
Our classrooms, whether live or virtual, are all interactive, using cutting edge teaching methods to engage students deeply in all subjects through active participation. Most prominent is Project Based Learning. Students work together on projects that encourage them to learn while employing the four C’s: Critical Thinking, Collaboration, Communication and Creativity. In our classrooms, the teacher is not a “sage on the stage” but rather a “guide on the side.”
Pre-Kindergarten - Grade 1
Our Introductory Grades program is built around the idea of feeling good about being Jewish while being exposed to basic Jewish ideas and experiences. Students experience the joy of being Jewish through song, dance, games, activities and movement, whether together in the classroom or gathered on the Zoom screen. Students are automatically enrolled in PJ Library, a program from Jewish Federation that sends a Jewish book home monthly at no charge.
Grade 2 - Grade 3
Our Judaics curriculum is based on the Timeline of Jewish History, from Creation to today. Students will SPIRAL through the timeline, over the years learning new lessons at an age appropriate pace. Middot (Jewish Values) are an integral part of our program. We promote a Middah (singular) of the Month and encourage students to build these values into their daily life.
Grade 4 - Grade 7
Grades 4 – 7 will follow the same spiraling timeline and Middot curriculum. Classes are kept small to maximize each learning opportunity. Students engage in a variety of interactive learning platforms, whether in live or virtual classes.
Fri, January 21 2022
19 Shevat 5782
LIVESTREAMING
Morning minyan and Shabbat Services will be live streamed from our chapel. Please click here for recent services and to view live stream: https://vimeo.com/event/1331069
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E-Torah
E-Torah from Congregation B’nai Israel
January 21 2022
19 Shevat 5782
Of Commandments and Courage
By now, all of us have heard of the horrific events of last Shabbat in Colleyville, Texas, and the extraordinary courage shown by the rabbi of that small congregation. Rabbi Charlie Cytron-Walker kept the mentally unstable gunman calm until he could not, and then he threw a chair at the terrorist and ushered his congregants to safety.
Rabbi Cytron-Walker is being properly lauded as a hero. But then, the Jewish Forward decided to print a story two days after the event detailing how the rabbi’s contract was not renewed a few months ago after 16 years of service, and even printed some allegations, leveled without proof, made against the rabbi by a disgruntled congregant who had left the congregation.
The Ten Commandments, which we read this week, are echoed in the book of Leviticus in chapter 19, where one of the verses reads “Do not go about as a talebearer amongst the people”. This is a prohibition of Lashon Hara, gossip and slander-because gossip and slander in our tradition are as deadly as murder. Every time a rabbi leaves a congregation, rumor and innuendo abound, and I assure you such attacks are devastating. That the Jewish Forward would engage in such an act days after this man saved the lives of his parishioners is beyond the pale.
It is tragic that Rabbi Cytron-Walker could survive a deadly attack by a terrorist, only to confront the slanderous gossip of a once great Jewish newspaper.
Shabbat Shalom
Rabbi Doug Sagal
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