We have limited scholarship funds and 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. 

Deadlines:

Jewish youth programs: December 19, 2014 and March 20, 2015 

Summer camp programs: March 20, 2015.

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

Tuesday, 12/2/14: Adat East classes   

Wednesday, 12/3/14: Hebrew School classes  

Saturday, 12/6/14: Torah School Classes (No Kitah Vav - Family Chevrutah study)

The PJ Library is a free Jewish book and CD club that mails to your child a book or CD about every month.  It's geared to your child's age and is seasonal with a focus usually on the next Jewish holiday as well as Jewish themes and values.  It's been widely credited with creating a bounce in Jewish identity among young Jews in many communities where it's been running for years.  Speaking from personal experience, the books and CDs are generally very good and some are fantastic. Our kids love them!  And it's completely free!!!

All you have to do is sign up at www.pjlibrary.org.  So sign up now!

Shabbat Matters continues on, December 13, with new teachings from Adat Shalom member Susan Gaeta.  Chochma (practical knowledge and wisdom), Binah (intuition, relationships), Da'at (experiential knowledge): all ways we use our brains to experience the world around us. Susan Gaeta will share with us some movements to activate the brain for learning, communicating and supporting our relationships.  

We all, including our children, have our preferred styles of processing information.  Susan will present ideas based on The Dominance Factor by neurophysiologist, Carla Hannaford. Parents will be introduced to how knowing eye, ear, hand, foot and brain dominance can support learning and build more effective working relationships.

Contact Louise Milkman for more information: louise.milkman@starpower.net

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. Here are some very special and important gatherings for students and families in Kitah Vav. 

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

• Sunday, December 7th:

5:00 - 5:45 Meet with youth committee chairs Jaime Banks & Beth Sperber Richie to share your ideas for our developing youth program.  

5:45 Pizza provided by Adat Shalom.  

6:00 - 7:30 PM study and rehearsal with Hazzan Rachel for their 12/12 service

• Shabbat Celebration and sleepover: December 12th - 13th, 6:15 PM- 9:30 AM

• Invitation and RSVP

• Permission slip

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

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

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

·        Teen Chanukah party: Sunday, December 21^st: 5:30 - 7:30 PM at Adat Shalom.

·        Todah rabah to Alan Brody for serving as one of our wonderful Teen Scene youth directors (with Rayza Goldsmith). We are very proud of him as he departs to volunteer for the year in Rwanda with the JDC (Joint Distribution Committee). The JDC is the world's leading Jewish humanitarian assistance organization. Kol Hakavod - we are proud of you  and l'hitraot - we look forward to seeing you upon your return.

We know that it is challenging for children to start learning again at 4:30 pm after a full day of school. Here is a recommendation to help our children: feed them protein as it helps activate their learning abilities. We ask you to please bring cheese sticks, challah and juice when it is your family's turn to provide snack. If your child is lactose intolerant, also provide a peanut-free protein substitute for him/her. Todah rabah.

Reconstructionist Revelation

4-H Center in Front Royal

David Ehrenstein for leading Minyan Dor Chadash.

Fred Pinkney for guiding Kitah Hey's work in the Mishnah Garden.

Claude Kacser for sharing his story with our Kitah Zayin students. At 6 ½ years of age, from Paris, he was one of 1000 children who survived the Holocaust by being sent to safety in the USA.