Laurie & Joe Brofsky - Hewlett E. Rockaway Jewish Center
Laurie & Joe Brofsky - Hewlett E. Rockaway Jewish Center
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Encampment ‘11<br />
at Camp Ramah<br />
in the<br />
Berkshires<br />
METNY REGION’S<br />
BEST PROGRAM!<br />
Open to all current<br />
5th to 11th graders.<br />
Separate programs for<br />
5th–7th graders (Kadima)<br />
and 8th–11th<br />
graders (USY).<br />
ACTIVITIES<br />
Each teen gets to<br />
choose a variety of<br />
activi ties such as<br />
Drama, Music,<br />
Sports Clinics,<br />
Arts & Crafts,<br />
Teenage Dilemmas,<br />
and much more!<br />
EVERYONE<br />
PARTICIPATES IN<br />
Talent Show and<br />
Maccabia, Campfires<br />
and Hiking, and the<br />
Final Banquet<br />
For an application,<br />
contact the Youth Office<br />
or call 212-533-7800<br />
ext. 2155.<br />
religious school<br />
DAVID WOOLFE<br />
With Passover behind us, we really are on the “home stretch” of this<br />
school year. We have enjoyed many remarkable successes since last<br />
September. Our Building Block program has been an incredible success,<br />
bringing many new, young families into our congregational<br />
family. Our Zusia program has allowed a small, but important, number<br />
of students to be part of our Religious School family. Our Parent<br />
Association generously subsidized a field trip for our 5th and 6th<br />
graders to the Eldridge Street Synagogue and a walking tour of the<br />
Lower East Side. By all accounts, it was a great trip. The pickles, in<br />
particular, earned high praise!<br />
The Akiva Shabbat. The Building Blocks Shabbat. Kabbalat Hasiddur. Family projects.<br />
The list goes on and on and this is all good.<br />
But we do not like to rest on our laurels. We<br />
are always striving to improve and expand!<br />
“. . . a field trip<br />
for our 5th and 6th<br />
graders to the Eldridge<br />
Street Synagogue and<br />
a walking tour of the<br />
Lower East Side . . . was<br />
a great trip!<br />
”<br />
Hazzan Sislen’s regular participation in the<br />
school program has opened up new areas of<br />
enjoyment and learning and Rabbi Warmflash’s<br />
insights will be put into play as we go forward.<br />
Perhaps no anticipated improvement in our<br />
program is as noteworthy as our new post-<br />
Bar/Bat Mitzvah program. As our first Akiva<br />
cohort enters the 8th grade, we are ready to welcome<br />
them with a great curriculum designed by<br />
Etgar that is powerful, meaningful, content-rich, and fully engaging. I am looking forward<br />
to teaching the class and to finally figuring out the penguin soup riddle with my<br />
students!<br />
So while 2010-11 has been a great year, we look forward to 2011-12 being even better.<br />
Enjoy the warmer weather that has finally arrived. Enjoy the summer. I look forward<br />
to enthusiastically shaloming all of you once again in the fall!<br />
post bar/Bat mitzvah Program<br />
SOMETHING NEW!<br />
The philosophy behind Etgar curriculums is that every student deserves to be taught<br />
to his or her strength, that we have to begin our teaching “where our students are” and<br />
that every lesson must be engaging and worthwhile.<br />
Our new Post-Bar/Bar Mitzvah program is based on this philosophy and features a<br />
weekly, one-hour session on Thursday evenings from 7–8 pm, topped off by dessert!<br />
The year will be divided into two primary units: the Shoah and Israel. Multimedia, discussion,<br />
and engaging materials will make these important topics come to life for the<br />
students.<br />
Mr. Woolfe will be teaching the class and is hoping that his students feel as he does<br />
—that the “third time’s the charm” and are looking forward to being with him one<br />
more time.<br />
page 20 MAY/JUNE 2011 www.herjc.org HAKOL