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Community Service and Synagogue Attendance.

Students are required to participate in ten hours of community service per school year, and are responsible for setting up service opportunities of their own choosing. The Student Life Coordinator will post community service opportunities as they arise, and students are encouraged to seek out other such placements as well. Popular options include: Friendship Circle, local synagogue events, Relay for Life, local soup kitchens, JCC Teen Center, Fleischman Residence, Bookstock, Ronald McDonald House, tutoring, JARC, and volunteering to assist the elderly or youth. Please see the Student Handbook for more details.

Students are also required to have ten synagogue attendance dates per school year. These dates may include: attending Shabbat, holiday or weekday services, shiva minyan, volunteering for Junior Congregation, etc.

Tracking forms for community service and synagogue attendance can be found on the Forms page under the Student Life section of our site. All community service hours and synagogue attendance dates completed during the first semester must be submitted no later than the last Monday in January. Community service hours and synagogue attendance during second semester must be submitted no later than the first Monday in June. Dates from first semester cannot be submitted second semester.

“The world survives

because of three things:

Torah, service of G-D,

and acts of loving kindness.”

~ Pirke Avot