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Even Stained Glass Windows
Take a Break
By Tess Goldblatt, Education Coordinator
Stained glass windows surround
our sanctuary. They follow the holiday cycle in order
from Rosh Hashanah on one side through Shavuot on the
other… covering roughly the same timeframe as our
school year. It’s as if the windows take a summer
break.
It’s not that nothing
happens in the summer. There could have been a window
for Tisha B’Av for example,
but there isn’t. There’s a break.
Our students
have worked so diligently at their Jewish studies and projects.
Their
teachers have taught and
led them with diligence… all of this resulted in
magnificent outcomes as beautiful as the stained glass
windows. The Confirmation Class’s project, Rock
4 Darfur raised ove $2,000 for Darfur! Everyone worked
tirelessly, and now it is time for a break for them too.
The stained glass windows follow
a cycle. Rosh Hashanah always returns, just like the
new school year always
returns. When we open the next school year, we’ll
have some exciting learning opportunities for adults
as well as our traditional students. Rabbi Dror will
teach an exciting 12-part series called “Walking
With God” on
Tuesday nights. Roy Lasris will be teaching Hebrew to
adults on Sunday mornings during religious school hours.
If interested, please let us know if you need either
beginner or intermediate level of instruction so we can
select our textbook.
We’ll also be having a
congregation-wide education program in which each family
unit or member will make
a flag-style banner of a given Torah portion. Each parsha
will be studied and interpreted on the banners that will
be used both as flags for Simchat Torah and then as a
beautiful wall decoration for
the synagogue.
There will be a new crop of kindergartners
coming in and a new Confirmation Class, and everything
in between. The 2007-2008 school year will be filled
with simchasas we have one of our largest B’Nai
Mitzvah classes in several years.
The next time you’re
in the sanctuary, take a moment to appreciate the stained
glass windows… and enjoy a break from your busy
days.
Tess Goldblatt
Education Coordinator
240-4475
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