About The Jewish Experience: Religious School

Central Synagogue – Beth Emeth’s religious school, the Jewish Experience, led by our Religious Education Director, Jeff Kelman, offers a program of age appropriate Jewish educational experiences for students from kindergarten through the twelfth grade.

To register your child(ren) for the Jewish Experience religious school, click here. 

Our educational program prepares students to:

-  have a positive Jewish identity and connect themselves to our people through the study of Jewish history, ethics, theology, and rituals

-  have a relationship with God, and to express
this relationship in various ways

-  affirm their bond to both Eretz Yisrael (the land
    of Israel) and the modern State of Israel

-  value the study of Torah and Rabbinic literature

-  read Hebrew, and to understand the themes, key words and appropriate occasions for the recital of 
    prayers in Progressive liturgy

-  pursue mishpat (justice), tzedek (righteousness), and chesed (loving deeds), and to understand that
    these acts are mitzvot (Jewish obligations)

-  celebrate Shabbat and other holidays, and to observe Jewish life cycle events with an understanding
    of why and how they are observed

-  respect themselves as liberal Jews and to be able to make informed choices and around the world

-  support, participate in, and enjoy synagogue life, and to view the synagogue as a safe and enriching
    environment

-  continuously strive to provide a quality instructional program, for all, in a safe school environment