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My name is Annette Kirshner and I am your youth director here at Temple Beth Sholom. There are so many opportunities for your kids to be involved with other Jewish kids from our Temple and others in our community. Attached is our calendar of events for the 2007-2008 school year for all three of our youth groups. These youth activities offer a variety of social, spiritual, cultural, educational, community and religious components. As your Youth Director, it is my belief that keeping them socially and Jewishly involved, will benefit all of us, and research shows this to be so. Please read on to learn more about the great things we are doing! |
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| To get our kids involved early on, we have the Chalutzim youth group for 4th and 5th graders. We meet monthly at the youth house on the grounds of the synagogue or off site at various fun locations. We do sports, arts and crafts, celebrate Jewish holidays, do social things like bowling and have overnights. I am their advisor. Our kids look forward to joining and sharing fun times with their Jewish friends. | |
| Our middle group for grades 6-8 is called Kadima. This group is part of the International affilitation with United Synagogue Youth (USY). Kadima is lead by Debra Giura and they usually meet 2-3x per month. Their activities range from really fun activities like paintball to social action activities like singing Chanukah songs for the elderly to religious activities like leading Friday night services or an occasional Havdallah service. They participate at the annual convention in Jacksonville where they meet with middle school kids from across the region and have a great time. They also go to Disney and Adventure Island every year. Some kids reunite from summer camps and this is especially important. The 8th graders have their own convention called Gesher which is a bridge into the next level of our youth groups, USY. To contact Debra Giura her email is kadimasarasota@comcast.net. | |
USY stands for United Synagogue Youth and it is the youth group associated with the United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism. In our region, the organization is open to high school students. USY is divided into three levels: the chapter, the region and International USY. Our chapter is called SRQUSY (Sir-Q-Z) and is affiliated with Temple Beth Sholom. We open our membership to anyone Jewish. We meet 3-4x per month, meeting for all types of programming and this year we have two advisors, myself and Debra Giura. We have a teen board comprised of our President, Nathan Brodsky; Religious Education VP, Lauren Silva; Social Action VP, Olivia Beychok-Boyer; Israeli Affairs VP, Hannah Tishman; Communications VP, Alec Mishkin; and Danielle Mitchel as Membership/Kadima VP. Our kids plan the activities with our guidance. SRQUSY participates in 2 conventions within our region and the International Convention every year. There is a great day annually called, Yom (day) Disney, open to Kadima and USY where all the youth from across our region join together for the day in one of the designated parks where they can meet up with their out of town friends. This year Sarasota is proud to be hosting the Fall Sub-Regional Convention with our home town Sub-Regional president, Marisa Briefman at the helm. Please note that we need quite a few good houses! We will need housing for 200 high school kids from Friday night throught Sunday morning October 26-28, 2007. Please see the attached form and send it in as soon as possible. It will require dropping off and picking up at the Temple and one late night pick up on Saturday night. You would need to provide breakfast and snacks, but otherwise all other meals and their activities are at Temple Beth Sholom. Temple Beth Sholom is participating in a community effort to unite the Jewish youth from all the synagogues as well as the unaffiliated. I am co-chair with Andrea Eiffert of Temple Sinai, of the Community Unity group Kol Echad (one voice). We are planning two big events this year for high school students, a Speed Dating Event in December and a Matzah Ball (a dance) in the spring. Anyone interested in helping out with this endeavor, please let me know. Members can contribute donations to our Shul in memory or in honor of someone. Please consider supporting our youth when making your generous donations to the synagogue. Scholarships are available for those students interested in participating in programs but have financial concerns. You may contact me at the youth department 552-2783 regarding scholarships. My email for youth activities is usysarasota@yahoo.com. I look forward to working with your kids!
Annette Kirshner |
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