UPDATE:
Important message from Ilan Adar, Sept. 24:
Because of the continuing need to ensure everyone’s health and safety due to COVID-19, it is paramount that the information and procedures included in the newly adopted COVID-19 protocols are clear and provide all of us with the comfort level needed to bring our children to in-person school. Therefore, I (with the support of our Board of Trustees) made the difficult decision to have school and an important parent’s meeting online via Zoom this coming Sunday, Sept. 26. We will join in-person on Wednesday, Sept. 29, for our 3rd -7th grade classes; and on Sunday, Oct. 3, for all.
Please note the following schedule for this Sunday:
9:30-9:50 am:
All, parents included, meet via Zoom #836 0161 2763. (Use Temple Sinai passcode, included in Ilan's Friday email.)
9:50 am:
Students join their classes via zoom link provided by the teachers. During class, teachers will closely review the COVID-19 protocol with their students.
Parents stay (same zoom link as the short welcome program) to hear and ask questions or receive clarifications about the information and procedures included in the protocol. Please read it before this meeting.
School of Jewish Life and Learning
Train up a child in the way he/she should go and even when he/she is old he/she will not depart from it.
–Proverbs 22:6
Our School of Jewish Life and Learning serves kids from preschool through 12th grade, with age-appropriate curricula blending the arts with academics, as well as experiential and traditional learning.
Highlights
- Experiential enrichment electives
All of our students choose hands-on electives and, most importantly, each elective is attended by students in multiple grades simultaneously. Through activities such as cooking, singing, meditation, stitching, poetry, improv theater and more, students explore multiple avenues to Jewish identity and become part of a learning community that crosses age groups.
- Family programs
Our school year is marked by family programs that establish strong bonds between our Jewish experience in the temple, the school, and the home.
- ShinShinim
We foster relationships and mutual learning among our students and Israeli youths through the ShinShinim program, administered locally by the Jewish Federation of Greater Rochester. ShinShinim are Israeli high school graduates selected as cultural ambassadors, who can bring to diaspora youth a lively, personal, first-hand, and modern view of Israeli society.
Sun, September 26 2021
20 Tishrei 5782
Useful information
COVID-19 policies
Our school follows CDC, New York state, and Brighton Central School District guidelines for masking, social distancing, and related safety measures. In addition, our school, with the approval of the Board of Trustees, adopted a detailed set of COVID-19 protocols to begin September 2021.
Sundays, 9:30 am
Zoom #823 9956 6403
Sunday sessions for Sprouts–7th grade begin with a schoolwide t'filaton (short service) that parents are welcome and encouraged to attend.
Meeting Times
- Sprouts
- Sundays, twice per month,
10 am–12 noon. - K–2nd grades
Sundays, 9:30 am–12 noon - 3rd–7th grades
- Sundays, 9:30 am–12 noon
- Wednesdays, 4:30–6:00 pm
8th–10th grades (Kesher)
Sundays, 11 am–12 noon
11th–12th grades (Bogrim)
One Sunday per month,
11 am–12 noon
Resources for parents and families
New to Judaism, Reform Judaism, or just a little rusty?
Since family participation in your children's Jewish education is strongly encouraged (essential, in fact, to instilling a lasting Jewish identity!), we invite you to take part in Temple Sinai's Adult Education programs.
We also recommend:
ReformJudaism.org, the URJ's education site, offering a rich overview of beliefs and practices, sacred texts, life and culture in Israel and throughout the global Jewish community, as well as Torah study, all through a Reform lens. The site also includes links to courses and podcasts.
And My Jewish Learning, containing overviews of many, many topics in Jewish history, liturgy, practices, and cultures around the globe. Suited for people of all backgrounds and levels of knowledge, My Jewish Learning is part of the nonprofit, nondenominational North American Jewish media organization 70 Faces Media.
