Area religious schools will soon encourage students to come out of the classroom and learn Jewish lessons in the wider world.
For the third year, the S.F.-based Bureau of Jewish Education has allocated $150,000 in School Improvement Project Grants to help fund nontraditional and innovative religious school programs. Sixteen grants between $1,000 and $4,000 will be implemented in this fall in area K-8 religious schools. ...
Meanwhile in San Francisco, Conservative-Reform Congregation Beth Israel-Judea will team up with Conservative Congregation Beth Sholom to offer experiential community-based programs for seventh- and eighth-graders. The students will also participate in a workshop dealing with AIDS and hear speakers on the Holocaust. Beth Israel-Judea received $2,400 and Beth Sholom received $3,000, which includes funding for other programs. ...
By ALEZA GOLDSMITH, Bulletin Staff.
Copyright, J. 2000.