The JLC curriculum – which spans four thousand years of Jewish history, culture, values and spirituality – is built around a three-year cycle allowing our children to revisit topics and ideas as they grow older and more mature. Our goal is to provide a broad foundation of familiarity upon which the students can continue to build a lifetime of learning and experience.

• Year I: Biblical – Beginnings, Egyptian Exile and Return, Babylonian Exile and Return
• Year II: Diaspora – Talmudic Sages, Golden Spain and the Orient, Eastern European Mystics and Magic
• Year III: Modern – Our Own Families Coming to America, Israel, the Holocaust (for the oldest class), Jews in America

Each class session revolves around a theme of a Jewish ethical or spiritual value and a Jewish teacher/sage who embodies that theme. We attempt to relate that theme to ethical dilemmas or creative and spiritual practices in the student’s life. By integrating Hebrew words, songs, stories, legends and prayers, we also relate the session’s theme to the current holiday, Shabbos or Tikkun Olam project.

The Jewish Learning Center offers pre-school through B’nai Mitzvah classes. Post-B’nai Mitzvah teens continue to participate as teachers’ aides.