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School at Temple Beth Am strives to meet the challenge of creating
literate youths with positive identities as Reform Jews. Our program
is seeing continuous improvement and our students are involved in
the learning process in such a way that one can feel their "ruach"
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HIGH SCHOOL
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Grades
9-10
As important as the Bar/Bat Mitzvah is to our children and their
families, we are very aware that Jewish education should definitely
not end at age 13, any more than secular education should cease
after the 7th grade.
Our High School
program offers students in grades 9 and 10 the opportunity to meet
once a week on Monday evenings to study and discuss subjects of
great relevance to their lives, and to socialize with other Jewish
teenagers. It is at this point in their Jewish education that our
young people become aware that Judaism is not just Hebrew prayers
and holiday celebrations, but a system of beliefs about God, the
nature of humanity, ethical imperatives and moral mandates.
In studying
bible, the Holocaust, Jewish rituals surrounding life and death,
Jewish cuisine and social action, students in our high school program
begin to understand that their own value systems have been shaped
by thousands of years of Jewish teachings.
The Confirmation
year, 10th grade, is highlighted with a fabulous 3-day trip to New
York City with other confirmation classes from
around the greater Boston area. Students visit Ellis
Island, the Lower
East Side, and it's historical
sites, the Jewish
Braille Institute, various kinds of synagogues and Jewish
institutions of higher learning, as well as eat at some
real Jewish
delis and see a Broadway show.
The culmination
of Temple Beth Am High School is Confirmation at the end of the
10th grade. This service, which is put together and led by members
of the Confirmation class and held on the festival of Shavuot, is
one of the most beautiful services of the entire year.
After Confirmation,
many 11th and 12th graders continue on in our Post-Confirmation
program. Once a month, these high school juniors and seniors meet
for an hour with Rabbi Miller and an hour with Cantor Schechtman
to discuss subjects facing young people in the 21st century, particularly
as they establish their own Jewish identity when they leave home
for the first time and go off to college.
At the end
of 12th grade, we have a special graduation service for those students
who have shown the remarkable commitment and dedication to complete
all the years of Jewish education at Temple Beth Am.
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Our
2007 Graduation Service
Come
Celebrate Our Youth |
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We
have amazing young people here at Temple Beth Am, and the springtime
gives us the opportunity to honor those that have chosen to continue
their Jewish education well past their Bar and Bat Mitzvahs.
First,
On Friday, May 4th, we will have our
annual graduation service. This year, it will take place on
the same night at Shabbat Across America, a special service designed
to welcome newcomers into our temple community.
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wonderful seniors who continued their Jewish studies all the way through
the 12th grade and are graduating this year are: |
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Caroline
DeHaan, daughter of Linda Rosenburg & Larry DeHaan
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Rachel
Finn, daughter of Judy & Gavin Finn
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Amy
Gorevitz, daughter of Bonnie & Stephen Gorevitz
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Erica
Helinek, daughter of Pam & David Helinek
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Caleb
Landis, son of Lisa & Robert Landis
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Molly
MacDonald, daughter of Lois & Tim MacDonald
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Jessica
Silverman, daughter of Sharon & Alan Silverman
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Naomi
Yager, daughter of Laura & David Yager
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Our
beautiful graduation service will be followed by our Scholarship
and Awards Dinner, during which our temple will bestow monetary
awards to students going to college, Jewish camps and Israel programs.
At
our Shavuot Evening Service on Tuesday evening, May 22nd at 7:00pm,
we will have the privilege of witnessing seven 10th graders take
their place on our bima as the Confirmation Class of 5767.
These young men have committed themselves to our high school program
and they just came back from an exciting 3-day trip to New York
with teenagers from three other Boston area synagogues. We
are very proud of our newest confirmands:
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- Alexander
Goldstein, son of Jane & Howard Goldstein
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Thomas
Greb, son of Nicolette & Scott Greb
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Jonathan
Helinek, son of Pam & David Helinek
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Jacob
Levine, son of Louise & David Levine
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Gregory
Silverman, son of Sharon & Alan Silverman
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Jeffrey
Taylor, son of Marci & Eric Taylor
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Ross
Yager, son of Laura & David Yager
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hearty mazal tov to all of our graduates and confirmands! We
feel confident that you will be the next generation of Jewish
leaders. |
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