YOUTH EDUCATION
Youth Activities
United
Synagogue Youth (grades 9-12) USY also provides opportunities for our youth to strengthen their Jewish identity and to become a part of Jewish life at Beth El.
Contact Beth El
to request a membership form. 2011/2012 USY Events 9/4 - Emerald Pointe with Kadima 2/11 - Join USY for a night of fun and fundraising! Meet us on Saturday night, February 11, 6:45-1030 pm, at the Cotton Room, 807 East Main Street # 350, for Drag Bingo!
(Meet us out front) Cost: $20 (funds donated to to Alliance of AIDS services of North Carolina). Please RSVP by next Wednesday, February 8 - RSVP's required as tickets are purchased in advance! Bring your friends - open to all Jewish 9th-12th graders! Drag Bingo is a fundraiser held throughout the year for providing services for people living with AIDS. It includes an age-appropriate live performance show and, of course, Bingo! Audience members are not expected to wear costumes. For more information, please view the Drag Bingo website -
http://www.aas-c.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=56&Itemid=67 2/19-20 - Regional Great Wolf Lodge overnight in Willliamsburg
3/17 - Sat night program
4/14 - Post Pesach Pizza Party
4/29 - Regional Kings Dominion Day
5/12 - year-end program
5/17-19 - Regional Spring Convention
Youth Activities - Kadima (grades 6-8 grades) Kadima gives middle-schoolers a chance to bond with their peers through social and social action programming. Kadimaniks begin developing leadership skills by helping to choose, plan, and support their programs. For more information, please contact: Jessica
Zaleon Contact Beth El to request
a membership form. 9/4 - Emerald Pointe with USY
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It's time for our second annual
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Kindergarten - Second Grade!!! Alef-Bet, our newest youth group, is for children in grades K-2. Our youngest elementary school children have the opportunity to enjoy a taste of youth group participation, as they enjoy various activities and form their own community. We began in 2010-2011 with one activity, and we look forward to enjoying a full calendar of events this year.As
with our other groups, membership is not required for participation—our
events are open to all Jewish K-2nd graders! Invite your friends!!!2011/2012 Aleph-Bet Events 10/2 - Ganyard Hill Farm 2/26
3/25 4/22 5/12 - young family picnic (with Early Childhood group) For more information, please contact: Karen at karen@betheldurham.org or 682-1238, ext.170
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Pre-Kadima, for all 3rd-5th graders, provides a taste of youth group participation and some exciting social opportunities. Children have the opportunity to get to know one another in a fun and interesting environment. Our pre-Kadima members have the opportunity to develop their connections to each other and to Beth El, preparing them to take on leadership roles in Kadima and USY. For more information, please contact: Karen at karen@betheldurham.org or 682-1238, ext.170 9/11 |
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Simchat Tot September 25, 2011 — Rosh HaShannah |
| All children in grades 4-6: Join us for Torah Club!!! Meeting in the Freedman Center on For any questions about the club,
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There is this lovely spot just around the end of the lake, towards the back way in and out of Camp Ramah, where one can turn around and see all the main buildings of camp: the chadar (dining hall), mirpeset tifilah (prayer porch), the kikar (playing field), bet am (ampitheatre/stage), pool, lake and blob, tennis courts, climbing tower, bunks...a special place that I always go when I first arrive at camp and as I leave each year. I always feel touched by that site and whenever I take visitors around it is inevitably the "wow" spot on the tour... My 7th summer at Ramah Darom and the first time I didn't have a child in residence. Rachel's group was traveling in Israel for their last year as campers and will return next year as staff. Luckily, I had my "other kids" from Beth El and Chapel Hill to enjoy... and enjoy they did! To be in the presence of 400 Jewish kids and staff, to eat and sleep, to play and learn, to pray and experience daily life in this special Jewish context together is so remarkable and joyous that just thinking about it makes me want to...well, let me try to capture a couple of those images ... Kabbalat Shabbat with all our beautiful kids who have spent Friday afternoon cleaning up camp for Shabbat...taking time and effort to prepare Torah and haftorah readings, straightening up the bunks, making special place cards and table decorations for Friday night dinner, getting dressed up, clean and shining and looking fine for all those other nice Jewish boys and girls... gathering in the bet am, bringing flowers to friends...the "Shabbat rap...oo, ah, oo, ah ah..." lighting candles together and davening as the sun goes down over the lake...led by, yes our children, who just get up there and lead several hundred campers and staff in tefilah... Shabbat dinner all together, birchat and amazing shira...still led by those shinning kids. Shabbat as "an island in time" where everyone walks and eats and plays and celebrates together...so many different minyanim to choose, special foods, free time, onegs, games, books, naps, stories, swimming,basketball, hanging out with friends and camp "family"...being Jewish in this natural place, this completely different space and time...suedah shlishit, more shira, that feeling of anticipation of the all time favorite part of Shabbat at camp...havdalah...those, still shining beautiful faces, happy, relaxedin a way that I think we rarely get to see in our kids...laughing and hugging and waiting until we count the stars and hand-made havdalah candles and bisamim and "shavua tov! "and skits and cheers and dancing and motzei Shabbat parties and programs...and that's only one day in the life of Ramah Darom! o many more images, but for another time... So, "what do we know" about Jewish camping and the impact it has on our kids? what's not to like... it's hands-on-Judiasm at it's core...it develops strong, positive Jewish identities and profoundly affects choices those kids will make as adults about marriage, raising kids and being involved in synagogues and wider Jewish communities. Jewish camping and Jewish day schools are consistently identified as primary influences in choosing to lead Jewish lives as adults. ---Sally Laliberte (October 2005) Please know that I am always happy to chat with you about camp and how to make it happen for your kids...or better yet, talk to one of our shining campers who have attended Ramah Darom over the past seven years: Hassan and Rahan Bhatti, Elliot and Kira Borman, Josh Fraimow, Ross and Zach Goldburg, Michael and Jared Goldstein, Jacob Kerner and Rachel Laliberte, Ethan Keyserling, Max and Elena Korn, Noah, Sam and Ben Marks, Jeremy Reed, Rachel Schonburg, Jonathan Schwartz, Jessie Zaleon, Josh and Rachel Zarkin Adult staff: Susan Cohen, Adam Goldstein and me (Sally Laliberte) Shabbat visitors: Sabina Sager, Judith Herman, Barbara Renner, Bob Schwartz and never to forget...all those parents who made the (enormous) commitment to their kids and dropped them off for the month... call me -- Sally Laliberte visit their website: www.ramahdarom.orgClick here to download more information on Camp Ramah and the impact of Jewish Camp.
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