Sunday night, November 9th, 6:00 - 7:30 pm: Kitah Hey Shabbat service study and rehearsal

Friday night, November 14th - Kitah Hey Shabbat Celebration & Sleepover. Pick-up is at 9:30 am so the children can go home to sleep.

There isn't formal Torah School for Kitah Hey students in the morning. There will be supervised activities if you want your child to stay until 12:30.

RSVP and sign up for dinner 

Permission slip 

We will host our first Parent/Teacher Meet and Greet on Shabbat morning, November 8th, 12:00 - 12:30 for Kitot Aleph - Vav in classrooms. Our goal is for you to get to know your child's teacher/s. This initial meeting will encourage you to continue the conversation during the oneg, by phone, or email.

Gan students will have their regular class until 12:30 taught by Rachel Cohen and their madrichot so parents with older children can attend Meet and Greet

Gan Minyan will be from 9:45 AM - 10:20 AM

Tot Shabbat will be from 10:30 AM - 11:10 AM

Students will be supervised by Alan Brody, Jenny Schwarz and our fantastic madrichot

If your family has two children and one parent, we encourage you to invite a special family friend to meet with one of your child's teachers

I will meet with Kitah Gimel for their Meet and Greet, 10:40 - 11:15 in the library. It will be a great opportunity to chat with each other, learn about the curriculum and special programs planned for the year

Friday night, Nov 7th - Kitot Gan - Gimel Shabbat B'bayit (Shabbat dinner at classmate's homes): Please sign up to host two or three other families. If you aren't able to host other families, please attend Shabbat dinner at one of your child's classmate's homes.    

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The Jewish Studies Committee is excited to bring back the Shabbat Matters program, a series of Shabbat morning discussions that brings Jewish values and learning into the home.  Many of the classes are geared towards parenting and family relationships.  The classes will be from 9:30 - 10:30 a.m, in the double classroom, on selected Shabbat mornings.   This Shabbat and next (November 8 and 15) we will learn from Adat Shalom member and psychologist Kay Abrams who taught us so much during last year's series.  Here's the description:

Shabbat Matters with Dr. Kay Abrams: A More Caring and Compassionate You: How to manage stress and enhance relationships

Prayer, meditation and breath work are tools that ground our central nervous system, helping us to let go of stress and tap inner resources of peace and strength.  Kay Abrams will teach us about how we are wired for negative bias that keeps us stuck in bad thinking and feeling habits, resulting in our sense of separation and struggle.  

Shabbat is a day to shift gears from high drive and spin cycle into restoration so we can be more responsive and less reactive as we manage day to day relationships. Kay will offer tools to help us let go of old habits, and recharge on Shabbat, in order to cultivate compassion and care from within.

For questions, please contact Louise Milkman, louise.milkman@starpower.net 

I am involved in Jewish life because when I was thirteen, living in Albert Lea, MN, a small town of 20,000 people and 13 Jewish families, my parents sent me to Herzl Camp to develop a Jewish identity. Herzl was a joyous non-denominational Zionist camp in WI. Bob Zimmerman Dylan also went to this great camp a few years before I was a camper! I was able to continue attending camp for several more summers due to the camp's generous scholarship program. There I fell in love with Judaism and met my "hevrah" - group of friends who positively influenced my ongoing Jewish growth.

We deeply believe that Jewish summer camp and Israel trips are life changing and enriching experiences for your children and teens. We support you in providing this opportunity for your child/ren. At Adat Shalom we have two sources of scholarships:

The Daniel Thursz Youth Fund was named for a national leader in the development of informal Jewish education. We also have a Camp Scholarship Fund. These funds have two components:

a.      The first component supports Adat Shalom teens attending Jewish programming, such as Noar Hadash Israel trip, Israel Quest, JRF Youth or BBYO Leadership conferences based on financial need.

b.     The second component supports participation by children in Jewish youth activities, including overnight summer camp attendance, based on financial need.  Adat Shalom Jewish Summer Overnight Camp and Youth activities scholarships were created to supplement other monies collected for your child's program including money contributed by your family, the camp or program that you are attending, the Federation, and other scholarship sources. Given our limited scholarship funds, we request basic information in order to calculate an appropriate financial aid award in the spirit of fairness and inclusion. The information you provide on this form will be kept confidential. Only people responsible for reviewing the scholarship applications and recommending scholarship awards will see your application. Click here for the application 

• Deadline for summer camp programs is March 20, 2015.
• Deadline for Jewish youth programs is December 19, 2014 and March 20, 2015 

Enjoy this picture of Adat Shalom Camp JRF (Jewish Reconstructionist Foundation) Session Alef campers, staff, Rabbi Fred, Minna and Gili

If you have any questions about various camp programs, including Camp JRF, or our limited scholarship funds, please email me.

The minyanim will meet in the double classroom as part of our desire to make the services accessible to family and friends who aren't able to use the stairs. Afterwards, we encourage you to share your thoughts as we can evaluate the experiment.

In our community, sixth grade is an important year for strengthening students' knowledge and familiarity with Jewish tradition and with each other as they begin to take steps towards becoming bar or bat mitzvah. We want to highlight some very special and important gatherings for students and families in Kitah Vav. 

• Chumash Presentation Please plan to attend the very special Kitah Vav Family Chumash Presentation on Shabbat afternoon, November 15th, 4:30 - 6:30 PM. Your student will receive his/her own Chumash, the Sefer Torah will be unrolled on their laps and your family will begin studying in small groups in anticipation for the beginning of the upcoming Family Chevrutah study program. Family groups will decide when to gather over the week-ends of November 22nd, December 6th, and 20th. Pam Sommers will send you more details about the Family Chevrutah study program.  It is a very joyous celebration and we look forward to a meaningful and fun gathering with the whole grade. Look for a message from Melissa Seldin, mother of Agnes, who will be in touch about a Kitah Vav potluck dinner after the ceremony. Please let Melissa Seldin know if you are interested in participating in the pot-luck dinner.

• No classes on 11/22, 12/6, 12/13. 12/20 - Family Chevrutah (friendship) study sessions

• Sunday, December 7th: 6:00 - 7:30 PM study and rehearsal with Hazzan Rachel for their 12/12 service

• Shabbat service and overnight: December 12th, 6:15 PM

• RSVP

• Permission slip

• Kitah Vav Family Chumash Study siyum (celebratory conclusion): Shabbat morning, January 10th, 11:30 AM - 12:30 PM in the double classroom   

• Shabbat Morning T'filah (prayer): January 24th, at 9:30 - 10:15, your child will be leading sections of Shaharit in the sanctuary

• Shabbat Morning Torah theater: February 21st, Kitah Vav Parsha play, featuring the sixth graders in performance, in the sanctuary 10:15 AM - 10:30 AM  

Adat Shalom Teen Scene: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1rAMmOJL_jrbRMWALAJqF6EEeQ6Y13ZQMS1NS-HyvJcU/edit 

• Interfaith Social Action Day - Sunday, November 16th, 1-4 - meet there

• Prepare dinner for Stepping Stone Shelter at Adat Shalom - Sunday, November 23rd, 5:30 - 7:30 pm

Questions? Email Alan Brody and Rayza Goldsmith at youthdirector@adatshalom.net 

Rayza and Daelen volunteering at A Wider Circle