A hearty Mazel Tov to all!!!!
Registration forms and been mailed. Please be sure to fill them out and return to the Lakeside office as soon as possible so that we will be able to plan another great year.
Lakeside Congregation is continuing an exciting and successful program. We are active participants in Chicago Federation's Send A Kid to Israel Program (SKIP). The SKIP partners (family, congregation, & Federation) contribute matching funds each year from 3rd through 9th grades. If you are interested, please contact Vanessa Ehrlich or Gloria Goldberg in the Temple Office.
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Kindergarten: Denise Goldberg
1st Grade: Sheri Bulwa
2nd Grade: Lynn Darin
Lynn and her family have been members of Lakeside for over 15 years. She has been teaching second grade for more than 10 years, and continues to be inspired working with young children. During the week, Lynn teaches in an early childhood program in Highland Park. Lynn has been a resident of Highland Park for 30 years and enjoys reading, gardening, baking and traveling. Over the last 10 years, she has been fortunate to have visited Israel twice on trips to study about the history, land and culture of the state.
3rd Grade: Karen Bellows
4th Grade: Darin Argentar
5th Grade: David Valentine
6th Grade: Marina Shubin
7th Grade: Anita Pildes
 Anita and her family have been members of Lakeside for almost twelve years. This will be her sixth year teaching seventh grade, having taught third grade and Confirmation class previously. Anita celebrated becoming a Bat Mitzvah six years ago, so
she can easily relate to the challenges many of her students will face this year. She was a member of Lakeside’s Board of Directors for 4-1/2 years, is currently on the Ritual Committee and co-chairs the Sisterhood Shabbat Service. She is an attorney by profession and, in addition to teaching at Lakeside and being Mom to two teenage boys, is a swimming instructor at the Highland Park recreation Center. She loves history and travel. She has spent an extensive amount of time in Israel.
8th/9th Grades/Pre-Confirmation: Debbie Harris
Deborah Stern Harris - Pre-Confirmation (8th-9th Grades) Debbie is the Technology Coordinator at the Sager Solomon Schechter Middle School in Northbrook and has been teaching religious school for over thirty years. A student in the Spertus College Master of Arts of Professional Jewish Studies program, Debbie speaks often on the topic of integrating technology in
Jewish education and will be incorporating some emerging technologies into this year's class. She co-chaired the technology track of the 33rd Conference for Alternatives in Jewish Education and blogs at http://www.museforjews.com. Debbie has been a long-time Lakeside member and has two daughters, Lori (an assistant English professor at Oakton College) and Allie (a second-year student at HUC in LA).
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The educational process at Lakeside Congregation for Reform Judaism encompasses instruction in Judaism, inspiration of the students with a positive and abiding faith in Judaism, and nurturing of a process of continuous learning, that will extend beyond the Religious School.
The Educational program includes:
• Teaching God, Torah and Israel, including Am Israel (the people of Israel) and Eretz Israel (the land of Israel).
• Stimulation of a sense of community with Jewish people everywhere, leading to a sense of community and self-identification with the Jewish people of the past and the present.
• Creation of interesting and inspiring experiences in the practice of Judaism in the home, the school, the synagogue and the community.
• Appreciation of Jewish art, music, literature and ethics.
• Preparation for using the faith, ethical standards and traditional insights of Judaism to answer questions and to solve personal problems.
• Commitment to teaching and participating in Tzedakah, and Tikkun Olam (repairing the world), including personal, synagogue and community-wide social action projects.
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