Kesher Program
"JCP: Explore, Learn, Celebrate!"
Spend your Monday and Wednesday afternoons at JCP in a warm, loving, and haimish community for children.
Learn Jewish History, Explore Jewish Values and Ethics, Celebrate Cycles of Jewish Time
Click Here to download your Kesher Application
Click Here to download your Kesher Application
Everything you want to know about Kesher:
1. What is Kesher
2. Kesher meets twice per week
3. About the Kesher Curriculum
4. Meet the Director
5. The Kesher Faculty
6. Bus Transportation and Escorts
7. Application Procedure
8. Learn More
1. What is Kesher? Kesher is JCP's new afterschool program that creates a unique community of elementary aged children, who together, explore their Jewish history, culture, and identity. Fall 2008 will accept students entering K-5. The program will age up with the children through High School, year to year.
2. Kesher meets twice per week on Mondays and Wednesdays throughout the year from mid-September through late May. The afternoon begins at 3 PM with supervised play activities and homework lab. Students arrive as their school day lets out, and the afternoon continues with Hebrew, Judaics & Song, ending at 6 PM.
3. About the Kesher Curriculum . . .students explore Judaism in three year cycles which allows them to revisit their learning areas as they get older and become more sophisticated learners. Each year is focused on two themes (Jewish history and memory, Values and Ethics, Jewish Holidays and Cycles of Time). For those wishing to prepare for their Bar/Bat Mitzvah, participation in Kesher will prepare students for their celebration.
4. Meet the Director: Hollis Gauss, MA joins JCP this Fall after serving as the Director of Education and Director of Jewish Family LIfe at Congregation B'nai Jeshrun (BJ) in New York CIty. She will be joining the JCP family full time as of August, 2008.
5. The Kesher faculty are expert Jewish educators who meet daily as a teaching staff to prepare lessons and learn together. Kesher Faculty spend the entire afternoon at JCP preparing for class, refining their group teaching skills, and sharing best teaching practices.
6. Depending on need, bus transportation will be available from St. Ann's and Packer in Brooklyn; from Claremont in Lower Manhattan; and from Little Red School and VCS. Walking escorts from PS 89, PS 234, and PS 50 also available.
7. Applications Download one online or through the Kesher Office at JCP. Limited space is available on a first come first serve basis through May 9, 2008.
8. Learn more about Kesher by setting up an appointment with Kesher Director, Hollis Gauss. Please call the office to set up your meeting: 212-334-3522
1. What is Kesher
2. Kesher meets twice per week
3. About the Kesher Curriculum
4. Meet the Director
5. The Kesher Faculty
6. Bus Transportation and Escorts
7. Application Procedure
8. Learn More
1. What is Kesher? Kesher is JCP's new afterschool program that creates a unique community of elementary aged children, who together, explore their Jewish history, culture, and identity. Fall 2008 will accept students entering K-5. The program will age up with the children through High School, year to year.
2. Kesher meets twice per week on Mondays and Wednesdays throughout the year from mid-September through late May. The afternoon begins at 3 PM with supervised play activities and homework lab. Students arrive as their school day lets out, and the afternoon continues with Hebrew, Judaics & Song, ending at 6 PM.
3. About the Kesher Curriculum . . .students explore Judaism in three year cycles which allows them to revisit their learning areas as they get older and become more sophisticated learners. Each year is focused on two themes (Jewish history and memory, Values and Ethics, Jewish Holidays and Cycles of Time). For those wishing to prepare for their Bar/Bat Mitzvah, participation in Kesher will prepare students for their celebration.
4. Meet the Director: Hollis Gauss, MA joins JCP this Fall after serving as the Director of Education and Director of Jewish Family LIfe at Congregation B'nai Jeshrun (BJ) in New York CIty. She will be joining the JCP family full time as of August, 2008.
5. The Kesher faculty are expert Jewish educators who meet daily as a teaching staff to prepare lessons and learn together. Kesher Faculty spend the entire afternoon at JCP preparing for class, refining their group teaching skills, and sharing best teaching practices.
6. Depending on need, bus transportation will be available from St. Ann's and Packer in Brooklyn; from Claremont in Lower Manhattan; and from Little Red School and VCS. Walking escorts from PS 89, PS 234, and PS 50 also available.
7. Applications Download one online or through the Kesher Office at JCP. Limited space is available on a first come first serve basis through May 9, 2008.
8. Learn more about Kesher by setting up an appointment with Kesher Director, Hollis Gauss. Please call the office to set up your meeting: 212-334-3522
