Religious School
Sunday School
Sunday School is available to every Jewish child in the area. There are grades from kindergarten though tenth grade (Confirmation) Financial assistance is always available. No child will be turned away.
Classes meet from 10:00 am to noon on Sundays at the synagogue. Consult the calendar for exact dates as we follow the University of Iowa calendar.
Kindergarten Learning Objectives
First Grade Learning Objectives
Calendar, Holidays, Bible Stories, Aleph Bet
Second Grade Learning Objectives
Mitzvot, Bible Stories, Israel
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Hebrew School
Hebrew School usually begins when a child reaches third grade and continues through Bar/Bat Mitzvah. The school meets Monday and Wednesdays from 4:15 pm – 6:15 pm at the synagogue.
Third Grade Learning Objectives
Jewish Community and Jewish Life Cycle, Tikkun Olam
School Calendar
News
Parashat Lech Lecha 2021
She woke up to the faint blue glare, as usual. The silk sheets and down pillows were inviting and she just wanted to burrow down deeper into them, into the comforting oblivion of sleep.
Defying Dichotomies, Beyond Binaries
The charge that the ‘Torah is homophobic’ engages in one important fallacy: it assumes that the Torah is a static text and that our relationship to it is stagnant.
October 2021 Bulletin
Read about what’s going on in our congregation and community.
The Torah’s Relationship Advice
I propose we look at God’s relationship with humans in the Torah as a model for intimate relationships between humans.
