Jewish Religious School Enrollment Open

Rabbi Richard Prass, Director of Education, has opened Congregation Beth Am religious school enrollment for all students entering 3rd through 12th grade in September. All classes are held at Congregation Beth Am in Buffalo Grove.

For students who eventually intend to study for Bar or Bat Mitzvah registration in both Hebrew & Religious school is required.

The school and its programs and curriculum focus on the individual student and his / her family.  We believe that sensitivity to individual needs and concerns is a vital ingredient in our educational program.

Education goals include:

Provide the student with a wholesome and satisfying Jewish experience.

Help the child arrive at some measure of self-understanding so that he/she becomes intelligent about that aspect of his total personality that is Jewish.

Enrich the character and personality of the growing Jewish child by virtue of contact with those significant elements of his/her Jewish cultural heritage, which have meaning in the present day and at the child's particular level of development.

Provide opportunities for meaningful religious experiences, which will serve as a basis for the child's willing and intelligent participation in the religious life and home and synagogue.

Develop within the child identification with the Jewish people in all parts of the world, including Israel, thus leading him/her to be sensitive to its problems and instilling in him/her a desire to help in their solution.  To foster a desire to preserve the unity and integrity of Jewish community life and to ensure its’ wholesome evolution.