Congregation Shalom Rav

Educational Programs

Rabbi Monty Eliasov, Educational Director

We offer once-weekly Jewish content classes to all grades from kindergarten through adult. Our classes meet for two hours on Sunday mornings for twenty eight sessions per year. Our staff is composed of dedicated teachers who bring their original ideas and invaluable experience to our program. We prepare all students to be competent with our prayer book should they choose to have a Bar or Bat Mitzvah ceremony.

For more information about the school, policies or fees, please contact: Monty Eliasov, educational director: 684-8158 for information.

Structure

Curriculum

Schedule

B'nei Mitzvah

Structure

The purpose of our class structure is to provide maximum flexibility for our students while maintaining a structured learning environment with curricular integrity.

Aleph: Kindergarten and first grade students draw on all aspects of Jewish life utilizing hands-on crafts.
Beth: All beginning Hebrew students will study together in small groups using our beginning Hebrew primer (Z'man Likdro).
Gimmel: Once basic Hebrew skills have been mastered students will be able to build on that foundation and begin to work directly with our reconstructionist prayer book.
Community Classes: Focus on mastery of Hebrew comprehension and Jewish culture. Post B'nei Mitzvah students are encouraged to attend the Community classes.
The Youth Group is open to all our teenage students

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Curriculum

The mission of our school is to provide for our students a curriculum based Jewish learning program in a fun and supportive environment.

Our once-weekly Sunday morning two-hour program covers basic Hebrew decoding and prayer book skills and a basic knowledge of Jewish history and culture.

Each session begins with parents, and children participating in a brief school assembly program composed of Jewish songs, drama, art, stories and cantillation.

Our students are encouraged to attend once-monthly Shabbat services and all the community festival celebrations as these activities reinforce the skills they learn and make the learning process come alive.

Learning tapes for Hebrew and for basic siddur prayers enable students to supplement their learning at home.

Once a month we interrupt our normal structured learning program to partake in an exciting learning center based potpourri of special topics taught by both our teaching staff and by members of the Havurah community

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Schedule

2005 - 2006 School Calendar

Classes are held on Sunday mornings from 10:30 - 12:30. Call 684-8158 for information on the location. The schedule this year is:

September 11, 18, 25
October 16, 23, 30
November 6, 13, 20
December 4, 11
January 8, 15, 22, 29
February 5, 12, 19, 26
March 5, 26
April 2, 9, 23, 30
May 7, 14, 21

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B'nei Mitzvah

The Heart of Texas Havurah sponsors a very unique B'nei Mitzvah program. Each student is instrumental in creating their own ceremony. In the past, many students have lead the entire service on their own without the direct assistance of Rabbi or Cantor. Students may choose to either follow a traditional service or to reconstruct the service around a theme of special importance to them. Students are encouraged to utilize a broad spectrum of modalities including cantillation, chanting, dramatic readings, poetry, musical interludes, and the visual arts.

Students are expected to attend a once-monthly Shabbat Family Service and can choose to attend the Youth Group at any time during the year. The emphasis is both on studying the traditional prayer structures and also on learning various reconstructionist techniques for making the prayers meaningful for our generation.

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