Congregation Beth El
Core Classes
The following classes make up the core curriculum for Congregation Beth El students. All core classes will be grade based and taught by Beth El educators. For questions on the Beth El core curriculum, please contact Rabbi Marshall.
7th Grade
Kulam: Our Jewish Identity
Jeremy Cohen & Stacy Heyman
Kulam (meaning “Everyone,”) is a curriculum that uses dialogue prompts, games, Jewish texts, and other activities that encourages the students to ask big questions about where, why and how they belong while exploring issues of identity, equity, and justice with Jewish wisdom as a guide.
8th Grade
Shoah (Holocaust): History of the Holocaust
Jason Landau
This class will focus on day to day life of victims living within Nazi occupied Europe. This course specifically studies the tragic change in the lives of Jewish citizens while also attempting to understand how such a tragic event could have taken place in history by analyzing Nazi propaganda and dehumanization of the Jewish people.
9th Grade
American Jewish History (First Semester)
Jacob Boyd
Class Description Coming Soon!
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Heroes of Israel (Second Semester)
Mira Aumiller
Class Description Coming Soon!
10th Grade
Tough Questions Jews Ask
Rabbi Marshall
In this class we will tackle those tough questions you have always wanted to ask: Why Does God Let Bad Things Happen? What's the Meaning of Life? Why Does Religious Need So Many Rules? Sometimes we will find the answers, sometimes we won't, but we will work together to make sense of the Jewish tradition by wrestling with what we may not understand.
