Har Shalom Upper School (HSUS) & Confirmation 5782
TWO GREAT PROGRAMS FOR TEENS
1. HSUS - Har Shalom Upper School:
Who: 8th and 9th Graders (ALL students welcome!)
When: Tuesday nights, 6:30pm - 8:30pm (dinner included). View full Calendar HERE.
Where: At Har Shalom (11510 Falls Road, Potomac)
Cost: $400
Click HERE to Register!
Join Ruth for an all new Upper School program! We’ll be offering a variety of classes for students to choose from including:
- The Holocaust: Bearing Witness/Facing History
- Modern AntiSemitism: Haters (NOT) Gonna Hate
- Visual Midrash: A look at Torah through art
- Comparative Judaism: What do they do? What do we do? Why??
- Jewish Storytellers: A look at the art of Jewish storytelling, learn how to tell your own story
- And a MiniMester with Jewish cooking, Special Speaker Series, Torah Yoga, and more!!
2. Confirmation with Rabbi Raskin - Putting the "I" in Israel
Who: 10th and 11th Graders (ALL students welcome!)
When: Sunday nights, 6:30pm - 8:30pm (dinner included). View the full Calendar HERE.
Where: At Har Shalom (11510 Falls Road, Potomac)
Cost: $250
Click HERE to Register!
Join Rabbi Raskin for a special Confirmation program that takes a dive deep into Israel! Topics will include:
- The essential importance of the Land of Israel to Jewish peoplehood and identity
- Different approaches to Zionism (political, cultural, religious, etc.), and the movement to create a Jewish state long before the advent of the Shoah
- Exploring creation of the State of Israel and understanding its various wars and their consequences
- Decoding the various Arab players in the region: Hamas, Islamic Jihad, Hezbollah, Fatah, the Palestinian Authority, etc.
- An introduction to the Israeli political system, its factions and ideologies
- Historic and Modern attempts to create peace, including the Camp David Accords, Oslo, Two State vs. One State solutions, Eretz Le’Kulam (Two States One Homeland), etc.
- How to be an advocate for progress
QUESTIONS? Email Ruth