WELCOME!
Welcome to 2024-2025! Our Youth Activities (Religious School, Youth Groups, and Family Education) have been evolving, and we are so excited to welcome you back to Temple Emanuel to share them with you.
Before you begin! Please make sure that the contact information for everyone in your family is correct in the Temple's systems. Visit the Family Information section of your profile to view and edit your information. Visit the Family Information section now.
Who We Are
The Max Frankel Religious School of Temple Emanuel inspires our student to make lasting connections and deepen their Jewish identity in a community that feels like home. We strive to provide academic excellence, with a hands-on, exploratory curriculum leaning into Jewish values, history, rituals, and traditions. Students ages 3 years old through 12th grade are encouraged to forge bonds, volunteer in the community, learn Hebrew, joyously celebrate, sing, dance, write, create, investigate, cook, and be Jewish in a safe and loving environment. Our teams works hard and in collaboration with our clergy and congregation to ignite identity and pride in being Jewish.
Our pedagogy is informed by progressive educational practices, Jewish values, social emotional spiritual learning, and Inclusive Education(B’tzelem Eloheim) with emphasis on art, history, science, and movement. These methods guide and ensure that we are maintaining a high level of respect for each student and honor their individual and pluralistic experiences in our community.
New Year, New Opportunities!
- Our Calendar: what's changed?
- Due to where Passover and Easter fall on our calendar, we will be extending the school year by 3 days in May. Be sure to pay close attention to the calendar.
- Our Enrollment: what's changed?
- This year we are asking about ski season and carpool! Please indicate your preferences
- This year we are also asking about additional people who have "authorized access" to pick up you children.
- You have 3 options this year!
- Only Sunday Mornings(Full Year)
- Only Wednesdays (Full year) 4th-7th grade-ONLY!
- Sunday Mornings only and then Wednesdays only during ski season. (Ski Season this year is defined as: 12.3.24 to 3.12.25)
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**If you sign up for B'nai Mitzvah Class in person on Wednesdays, you must also sign up for Judaics on Wednesday or Sunday.
- Our Wednesdays/Ski Season: what's changed?
- We listened to your feedback and are so pleased to be launching a 4th-7th program, in person, on Wednesdays!
- What: Judaics and Hebrew/B'nai Mitzvah Class.
- Time: 4:30pm-6:45pm. It's 15 minutes later so we can serve pizza and let students take a break.
- We ask for $150 per student in order to cover the cost of pizza for the year. (This is completely optional! This will not be in your registration fee, but billed to you once your registration is complete.)
- Our Education: what's changed?
- We rewrote the entire curriculum so your student can have an exploratory, hands-on, communal experience, making friendships and being Jewish together! Our Blog will be updated to let you know what happening in the classroom!
- Our Engagement: what's changed?
- This year, we are trying to have youth engagement for all ages! It might look like gathering together with both parents and students, and sometimes just students. We hope that these new groups will be well attended. Please email Jocelyn Rosenberg: Rosenberg@emanueldenver.org if interested in joining/helping.
- Our Youth Groups!!!
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Pk/K: led by own wonderful Molly Smith (please reach out to her at: Smith@emanueldenver.org)
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1st/2nd
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3rd/4th
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5th
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6th/7th
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Reminders
- " Youth Activities/Religious School Enrollment" includes Hebrew. There is no separate enrollment needed. Pk-3rd grade will continue using Kathy Horewitch and Jocelyn's Rosenberg's AWESOME HEBREW Curriculum. 4th-7th grade will have an hour of Judaics and an hour of Hebrew on Sundays. *If you feel like your child needs more Hebrew enrichment, please reach out to Kathy Horewitch for Hebrew tutoring.
- Families must be members of Temple Emanuel to register for Youth programs (Religious School). If you are not a member and are interested in joining, please contact Susan Chayet Director of Membership, at chayet@emanueldenver.org prior to filling out your registration
- Before your family’s enrollment is confirmed you must submit your students’ immunizations records to Molly Smith at smith@emanueldenver.org
- Families will receive information pertaining to the year, including class placement and new protocols, before the start of the program.
- If your family is in need of scholarship, please reach out to Jocelyn Rosenberg, Head of the Max Frankel Religious School at rosenberg@emanueldenver.org.
- In order to complete registration, we are asking all families to pay for Religious School in full as you register. Shul-cloud does give you the option to pay over a period of months.
Introducing our Max Frankel Religious School Pk-12 Educators
Director of the Max Frankel Religious School Pk-12
Jocelyn Rosenberg is our Director of the Max Frankel Relgious School Pk-12. She is in charge of all of Youth and Teen Engagement and Education for PK through 12th grade. Jocelyn has spent 20 years in education and has been Principal at Temple for the past 3 years. She is honored to lead our Religious School with emphasis on joy, values, community, learning, kavanah (Intention), tradition, and safety. She hopes to inspire pride, spark action, and create home for all students. Feel free to reach out anytime to Jocelyn at rosenberg@emanueldenver.org.
Assistant Director of the Max Frankel Religious School Pk-12
Molly Smith: grew up at Temple Emanuel, attending religious school, Hebrew School, Confirmation, and assistant teaching. She attended IST in the summer of 2000, graduated with honors from Hebrew High School, and was a counselor at Shwayder Camp during the summer of 2001. Molly returned to teaching at Temple Emanuel when her daughter started My Jewish Discovery. She is excited to work with the team to build the Youth Activities program! Contact Molly at smith@emanueldenver.org.
Hebrew and B'nai Mitzvah Coordinator
Kathy Horewitch is our Hebrew and B’nai Mitzvah Coordinator. Kathy has been in Jewish education for over 20 years, sparked by her desire to allow students to learn to love being Jewish. She is excited to expand her role at Temple Emanuel. She looks forward to supporting your students as they learn to love Judaism as she has. Contact Kathy at horewitch@emanueldenver.org.
Administrative Assistant to the Max Frankel Religious School Pk-12
Brealyn Hager is our new Administrative Assistant. She has a background in case management working for the State of Colorado and a young adult housing program. She is excited to be a part of the religious school team and to grow and learn new things. Brealyn is an avid animal lover; she has a dog, a rabbit, a bearded dragon, and five tree frogs. She also has a book addiction and is always up for new recommendations. Please don’t hesitate to say hi she is so excited to get started and serve this community.
COVID-19 Protocols
All protocols are created in collaboration with the Temple Emanuel Re-opening Task Force and are subject to change. More information will be provided as the school year approaches.
