Post Bar/Bat Mitzvah Jewish Learning at Shir Tikvah

The Hevra program is a community-based program of Jewish learning in which students explore different aspects of what it means to be Jewish in the world. Learning and socialization are organized around the three major principles of Jewish life: Torah study, community responsibility, and social justice. Students in all grades 7-12 are welcome to continue their Jewish learning with their Jewish friends through the Hevra group.

If the early years of Jewish education invite our children to learn about being Jewish in the classroom, the synagogue, and the home, the 7th grade year and after should be about learning to be Jewish in the world. What is Jewish time? What does it mean to be part of a Jewish community? What is the real impact upon our young people of choosing to act on their Jewish identity? Learning sessions and off-site projects will take place on a regular basis with the supervision of their teacher and coordinator, with an equal emphasis upon all three aspects of Jewish life: study, community, and social justice.

The Rabbi, a Parent Advisory Group and the Education Committee provide programmatic support for the facilitator.

Some gatherings will take place on erev Shabbat or Shabbat morning and include communal Jewish activities; others may include acting within the larger Jewish community.

For more information, contact Hevra facilitator Bev Guttag at bguttag@gmail.com.

Hevra Students Get All Wrapped Up in the 5770 Lag BaOmer Celebration

Opportunity to Study in Israel!

Each summer, a group of outstanding Jewish teenagers in the U.S. and Canada, coming from a wide variety of backgrounds and entering the twelfth grade, will be recipients of the Bronfman Youth Fellowships. They will spend five fulfilling weeks of study, dialogue and travel in Israel.

For more information, click here : Bronfman Youth Fellowships (link)