Living a Jewish Life
Living a Jewish Life (LJL) is our Sunday K-5th program designed to help our students understand their Jewish background and acquire the tools to, indeed, live a Jewish life. We meet twice a month, usually the first and third Sundays (1:30-4:30), for three afternoon hours of active and varied learning---and of course snack time!
Our program has a 6-year theme cycle ensuring your child will never get tired of “the same old stuff”. Each year children focus on a different part of Judaism that allows them to more fully understand and appreciate their background.
| Year 1: | Three Moments of Shabbat: the Creation chapters of Genesis and values and rituals of Shabbat | |
| Year 2: | Ancestor Tales and their Settings: more stories from Genesis, Abraham and Sarah through Joseph, as well as geography of the Middle East and life in the patriarchal era | |
| Year 3: | The Three Regalim Pesach, Shavuot and Sukkot: ancient and modern ways of celebrating the "Pilgrimage Festivals" and stories of Moses and the Israelites from the book of Exodus | |
| Year 4: | Israel in Temple times and Israel today: stories and customs of Tisha b'Av and Chanuka; life in contemporary Israel, including Israeli ways of celebrating spring holidays such as Purim, Lag ba'Omer, Yom haZikaron, Yom ha'Atzma'ut | |
| Year 5: | Jews of Many Kinds: folk tales, foods, celebrations, histories | |
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Year 6: | Fall and Spring festivities: a more detailed look at autumn and spring Holy Days, their stories, values and customs |
Three times a year your child will get to choose a special chug (interest group) to participate in during the last hour of the day. These are unique artistic activities which allow interaction between students of all grades and a chance for talented members of our community to teach our children. Each chug takes place on two class days.
We have a “Dinner with the Rabbi”, and each class has the opportunity to lead part of Friday night services with Rabbi Tirzah! Both of these opportunities allow our families to get to know one another on a more social level and give our school a chance to be highlighted at Friday night services and our students to get to know the CNK community as a whole.
Be sure to check the LJL calendar for details about these and other events.
For more information contact Sarah Pew at (303) 449 0873 or email her at sarah@neveikodesh.org
The larger the island of knowledge, the longer the shoreline of wonder. --Jewish Proverb