Tuesday School

Tuesday School meets weekly on Tuesdays evenings from 5:45 - 8pm. Classes are currently available for 3rd-7th graders. Students learn both Hebrew language skills and Jewish history, tradition, and philosophy through a social justice lens. ​Pizza dinner is served for all students. Shabbat School and Tuesday School share an integrated curriculum and enrollment in Kadima School includes both Shabbat and Tuesday meetings for students in 3rd-7th grades.

Tuesday School offers our Jewish identity building curriculum that focuses on language skills (Hebrew with options for Arabic, Yiddish, and Ladino based on interest) as well as integrating skill learning in art, craft, music, movement, philosophy, text, and leadership with Judaism.

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Hebrew (3rd Grade - B'nei Mitzvah year)

Hebrew classes are offered at multiple levels. New learners begin in small Hebrew practice groups to master the aleph-bet and vowel sounds of the Hebrew language using liturgy and Hebrew culture. The curriculum then moves into learning vocabulary and connecting words to make phrases that create the building blocks of Hebrew and Jewish expressions that encourage Jewish thinking and identity development. Students learn how to read and write these expressions, focusing on repetition in song, liturgy, and rhyme. More advanced students apply their Hebrew knowledge to particular Torah verses that highlight values learning as well as language acquisition.

Shatil: Seeking Justice
​(3rd - 5th Grade)

Students in Shatil begin a deep dive into the concepts of tikkun olam (repairing the world), tzedakah (charity), and tzedek (justice). This class rotates on a three-year cycle through a focus on economic justice, racial justice, and gender justice, engaging an intersectional analysis from each entry point. Students explore these ideas from many Jewish perspectives, place them in the context of their own identities and communities, and have opportunities to explore their real life implications and applications.

B’nei Mitzvah Class (6th Grade - B'nei Mitzvah year)

B’nei Mitzvah class concentrates on particular vignettes in Jewish tradition and history that present moral grey areas and opportunities for conflict transformation and reconciliation. Further, this team focuses on Israel/Palestine and parallel issues in Seattle and locally. In addition to Saturdays and Tuesdays, Team Ra’am members are expected to work with a private madrich/a - guide/tutor - to learn the specifics of the torah portion assigned to their b’nei mitzvah ceremony, as well as Shabbat/Saturday liturgy confidence and leadership.​