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Jewish
Studies Department:
Our
goal is to develop in our children understanding, commitment, love of
and pride in their Jewish identity and their connection to our heritage
and to the State of Israel and the Jewish people.
Throughout
their Judaic and Hebrew studies we provide children with opportunities
to become inquisitive and creative thinkers and to develop their
critical thinking skills.
Along with that ,we aspire to
instill in them a joy for learning, and an enthusiasm for the pursuit of
Torah study and the observance of mitzvot. Recognizing that each
child is unique, we provide the individual attention that builds on each
student’s strengths and supports each student’s learning style and
needs.
Hebrew
Language Acquisition:
We present a spiral curriculum that builds a solid base of Hebrew
language skills. We use an Ivrit B’Ivrit approach and teach Hebrew as
a Heritage language. We have been in the forefront of new understandings
of how a child acquires a new language and have piloted two innovative
Ivrit language arts programs—The Tal
Am/ Tal Sela program for our primary grades, and the Neta
program for the 7th and 8th grades.
Judaic
Studies:
Our curriculum is text based. In all our Judaic studies subject
classes - Tefila, Torah, Nevi’im, Halacha, Mishna, Talmud, and Jewish
Thought we use original texts and commentary and embrace them. This
produces graduates who are fluent in Hebrew, and are proficient in
Jewish source texts and reach a level of comprehension that allows them
to become independent Torah learners.
We
create a hands on environment where children learn about Jewish
values and customs through demonstration, study, discussion and
practice.
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