Hebrew High

Students in the seventh grade attend two classes on Wednesday nights. The first section deals with topics that include "Who is a Jew?"; Building community in the classroom; God and Evil Inclinations; A survey of comparative religions; Diversity and the study of Crypto-Jews; Anti-Semitism and the Holocaust. The second section deals with a variety of topics based upon teachings from the Book of B'reishit using video triggers that cover some of the following areas: "In God's Image" "Being righteous in one's generation" "How do we balance the commandment to respect, honor and obey our parents with the directive to ‘leave your father's house?'" "Obligations to tell the truth vs the injunction not to hurt another human being" "How do we decide who deserves to be a leader?" ‘What does it mean to ‘wrestle' with an angel?" and "How do people react to a dreamer?" During this year most students are preparing for their B'nai Mitzvah and attend meetings with their parents and Rabbi Isaak in anticipation of this life cycle event.

Students in eighth through eleventh will be able to choose from a menu of classes offered during the year. These classes range from Kosher cooking to Jewish philosophy, biblical literature, modern Israel, Jewish environmentalism, Jewish Music and Jewish meditation. There will be opportunities throughout the year to meet with teens from other congregations in educational and social programs hosted by Neveh Shalom, Beth Israel and Shaarie Torah. The ninth and eleventh grade students and their parents are encouraged to attend the following programs.

Ninth Grade:
November 4, 2009: Israel Scholarship Meeting

Eleventh Grade:
November 18, 2009: Israel Scholarship Meeting
January 20, 2010: "Is This College Kosher"

Seniors have the unique opportunity to study with Rabbi Greenstein in a seminar class designed to engage each student in discussions centered around a variety of topics from the perspective of rabbinical texts.

Conversational Hebrew

This class offers the opportunity for students who are interested and motivated to continue their Hebrew language studies to do so twice a week on Wednesday evenings and Sunday mornings for those in grades 8-12

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