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What Does the Temple Israel Religious School Have to Offer?

• Framework for Excellence School Award and national accreditation by United Synagogue of America

• Experimental school for Project Etgar, a dynamic, integrated, student centered middle school curriculum, developed by the Jewish Theological Seminary of America.

• Shorashim, a program co-sponsored with Combined Jewish Philanthropies, that fosters and encourages American and Israeli students to work together on a specific project, and get to know one another both on a social and educational level via e-mail and video conferencing.

• Intensive program of 10 hours a week to encourage additional student learning. Recognized by the Bureau of Jewish Education of Massachusetts.

• Integrated mitzvot curriculum for all students and parents.

• High School of Jewish Studies for students in grades 8-12.

• Family programming for every grade.

• Sequenced Bar/Bat Mitzvah program for 6th and 7th grade students and parents.

• Class services on Friday evenings, Shabbat morning, and Havdalah

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Curriculum

Children begin religious instruction in kindergarten and attend classes two hours a week. This time commitment increases in first grade to four hours a week, and again in third grade to six hours a week.

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