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Sunday, Oct. 2:
NO SCHOOL
Wednesday, Oct. 5: Regular Class Day for 2-7th grades 4:30 - 6:30 PM
Sunday, Oct. 9: Regular Class Day for 2-7th grades 9:00 - 12:00 PM
Wednesday, Oct. 12:
NO SCHOOL
NOTE: One version of our calendar that was handed out had an error on it: we will NOT have school on Sunday, Oct. 16! Sorry for the confusion!
Please visit our website at www.basrs.org for more
information in the Parent Portal.
For additional upcoming events please click
HERE
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| Religious School Happenings |
A Message from Religious School Principal, Lois Tompkins
We've made it to the High Holidays!
Our kids are amazing! The energy and laughter that I am witnessing each school day is so uplifting. We have a lot of new students, who are quickly befriending our "veterans" and easing into our Religious School family. I look forward to seeing all of you at Rosh Hashanah services on Sunday night through Tuesday.
This week, we celebrated with Shofar blowing and apples & honey. We practiced our blessings and thought ahead about how we wanted to improve ourselves in 5777, our new year.
This is the time of year when we become introspective, and we ask forgiveness from God as well as our family, friends and neighbors. In that spirit, I ask all of you to forgive me if I have upset you or offended you in any way - whether purposefully or accidentally. May we all have a peaceful, healthy, and prosperous new year!
L'Shanah tova u-m'tukah (for a sweet new year),
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| Learning Tidbit of the Week |
In a continuation of this month's hints of things that you can do to help raise "mensches" - our most important task:
There are several steps to the Rosh Hashanah concept of T'shuvah (repentance, or "turning"): we must recognize our error, ask for forgiveness, try to make up for what we did wrong, and then prove that, when faced with the same choice, we would not repeat our transgression...
"I recommend two things: (1) Learn to be a mensch yourself, at your kids worst moments, and hold back all that justifiable anger. (2) Develop "interventions" which invite your children to repair the situations they have created and legitimately grow from the situation.
One thing that tends to turn kids into mensches is making menchy responses when they've done something wrong. Forget the notion of punishment. Replace it with ways that your kids get to make restitution and do t'shuvah."
From 10 Things Which Tend to Turn Kids into Mensches by Joel Lurie Grishaver
...and join us for our annual Tashlikh Service:
Monday, October 3 at 6:00 PM at the
Jacksonville Jewish Center Pond, where
we symbolically throw our sins (actually, stale breadcrumbs) in the Center's Pond! A great activity for the whole family!
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A huge Todah Rabbah (thank you) to PTA for the delicious apples and honey that they shared with us this week!
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Events at the Jacksonville Jewish Center
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For all upcoming events at the JJC click
HERE
for the JJC website!
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5777 High Holy Days at the Jacksonville Jewish Center
Click
HERE for everything you need to know about services and programs during the High Holy Days at the Jacksonville Jewish Center.
Click
HERE for important information regarding High Holy Day Youth Programming that includes the schedule and locations of service and programming.
Interested in being a part of the High Holiday Host Teamto serve as an Usher or Greeter this holiday season! Please email Nancy Davis (
nancy.davis@mjgds.org) to sign up for a one-hour time slot on the first or second day of Rosh Hashanah, Kol Nidre, or Yom Kippur.
If you would like to join us for the High Holy Days and are not a Center member, please contact Rose Tincher at
rtincher@jaxjewishcenter.org or by phone at 904-292-1000 to purchase tickets. All attendees are required to have tickets and parking passes to be on property.
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Click
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for an important message from the
Jacksonville Jewish Center's Social Action Committee as they gear up for their annual High Holy Days Operation Isaiah food drive.
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