Temple Teen Night (TTN) for Pre & Post B’nai Mitzvah Students

For grades 7-11

Wednesday evenings

Twice monthly

6:30-8:00 p.m.

This year, all of our post-B’nai Mitzvah programs will meet concurrently in our synagogue. These “Temple Teen Nights” will often begin with a pizza dinner for all students together with the Rabbi, our Principal, our youth group advisors, interns and other faculty. These dinners may include discussion or presentation on issues of concern to the larger Jewish world. Additionally, they will help foster greater community even as we deepen the search for Jewish roots.

Some TTN experiences will include special speakers for the whole community. More often we will enjoy our learning sessions as follows:

7th & 8th GRADE ELECTIVES

Students choose their own electives which last one semester. Electives include:

• Top Ten Reasons Why being a Jewish Teenagers is Cool 
• Hands On Judaism: Learning about Mitzvot by Making Your Own Tallit  
• What Israel is really like?
• Jews in the Arts

CONFIRMATION CLASS: FOR 9th - 11th GRADE STUDENTS

Led by Rabbi Paul Kipnes, Confirmation allows motivated teenagers to “confirm” their connection to Judaism through engaging discussion and debate. Rabbi Kipnes engages students in discussions on hot, contemporary topics, using Jewish texts and traditions to provide a value-based framework through which to understand the modern issue. Eleventh grade students completing the program will participate in a moving Service of Confirmation in the fall of their senior year of High School.