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Children's music tends to focus on teaching Jewish values and ethics, Hebrew alef-bet and vocabulary, and teaching about the holidays. Though well-known Jewish songwriters like Debbie Friedman and Craig Taubman have written many children's songs, there are some who focus almost exclusively on this genre, like Peter and Ellen Allard and Shira Kline.
The synagogue is home to a 300-household congregation with Shabbat and holiday services, a playschool for children 18 months to 5 years old, a Hebrew school for early childhood learning through high school students, adult education, social and communal activities, impactful social action, and engaging intergenerational programs.
Also, many Orthodox Jews often limit their children's exposure to music produced by those other than Orthodox Jews, so that they will not be influenced by what the parents see as harmful non-Orthodox ideas and fashions. A large body of music produced by Orthodox Jews for children is geared toward teaching religious and ethical traditions and laws.
In Sephardic synagogues, the table for reading the Torah (reading dais) was commonly placed at the opposite side of the room from the Torah Ark, leaving the center of the floor empty for the use of a ceremonial procession carrying the Torah between the Ark and the reading table. [28] Most contemporary synagogues feature a lectern for the rabbi ...
The Ark Synagogue has a membership of 1100 adults and approximately 300 children and junior members (under 18 years of age). [ 1 ] In 2010 the synagogue's Bereavement Support Group, founded by Sharon Goldstein in 1993, was awarded The Queen's Award for Voluntary Service, [ 6 ] which was presented, in the sanctuary by Deputy Lieutenant, Wing ...
Young Judaea is a peer-led Zionist youth movement that runs programs throughout the United States for Jewish youth in grades 2–12. In Hebrew, Young Judaea is called Yehuda Hatzair (יהודה הצעיר) or is sometimes referred to as Hashachar (השחר), lit. "the dawn".
A historic Brooklyn synagogue that serves as the center of an influential Hasidic Jewish movement was trashed this week during an unusual community dispute that began with the discovery of a ...
Children begin their religious education early, often attending kheder or Talmud Torah to learn Jewish traditions, the Hebrew language, and the Torah. The Bar Mitzvah for boys at age 13, and the Bat Mitzvah for girls at age 12 or 13, marks the transition into religious adulthood.