Kol+HaLev+(University+Hts.,+OH)

**Kol HaLev, University Heights, OH (Reconstructionist, 120 household units)**
Kol HaLev features “//Hagiga//,” a twice monthly family-based Shabbat morning learning program integrating day school and non-day school children in informal education using a common theme and topic. For the past three years, Kol HaLev has expanded //Hagiga// through a series of intergenerational Shabbat and holiday-based programs growing out of a community-wide theme. The first year theme was "Wrestling with Angels", while year two's theme has been "Kulanu Talmidim, Kulanu Hachamim -- We are all students, we are all wise." KHL has also initiated a web-based discussion option and held youth retreats. Each year, the congregation’s community-wide theme is embedded within all its educational programming: youth, adult, and intergenerational. The congregation has launched a study track for adults assuming leadership roles, and will continue to focus on developing leadership skills among older youth. Kol HaLev also launched Shabbat Kehillah last year, a new format for Shabbat celebration one a month with a service, potluck and singing Erev Shabbat Kehillah, and optional workshops then a short intergenerational service one Saturday morning a month (on a non-Hagiga Shabbat). The theme for our third year of the Legacy grant is be "Sustaining Our Sacred Center" with a continuation of //Hagiga//, Shabbat Kehillah, intergenerational programs, youth retreats, and the leadership seminar which involves emerging leaders in taking responsibility for a portion of the community's strategic plan.

[|Website] 2245 Warensville Center Rd, Suite 215 University Hts., OH 44118

Rabbi Steve Segar rabbisteve@kolhalev.net Robyn Novick, Education Director, robyn@kolhalev.net Jean Miller, Grant Project Manager jean@bmitc.com

=**Best practices:**=

//Sustaining our Sacred Center 5769//:

 * Newsletter Article on Leadership Workshop at JRF Convention:

Flyers and Plans for Two Intergenerational Holiday Programs:

Education Materials for Family Shabbat Programs:

Outline for Leadership Seminar:

Outline for Strategic Planning Retreat focusing on Strategic Plan:**

//Wrestling With Angels All-community learning programs 5767//:
Wrestling with Angels, Wrestling with Ourselves: program to introduce and explore what it means to wrestle with God Sukkot Time Travel: Wrestling with Difficult Historical Decisions: Sukkot Time Travel Hanukkah: Maccabees Wrestle with Hellenism, We Wrestle with Assimilation Purim: Wrestling with Making a Difference in the World Pesach: Wrestling with Freedom Versus Communal Responsibility Wrestling with our Responsibility to the Environment Wrestling with the Holiness Code: Congregational Retreat study materials

**Aligning Vision and Practice:**
[|TheKolHaLevVisionMissionStatement-rev 1-07 (2).doc] [|Mission, Vision and Goals of the Education Program.doc]

[|1-Welcoming.doc] [|2-Spiritual.doc] [|3-Learning.doc] [|Israel.doc] [|4-Social Justice.doc] [|5-Fiscally Responsible and Democratic Community.doc]
 * All Community Retreat Focussed on programmatic implications of vision in each of five areas:**

[|General Characteristics of a Good KHL Leader.doc] [|Leadership.doc]
 * Reflections on leadership as expressed in each area and in general for our community:**

**Two lesson plans from our Shabbat morning children's program on leadership:**
[|Hagiga Lesson Plan for Havaya and Hadraha Oct 6.doc] [|Hagiga Hadraha Lesson Plan for December 15.doc]

**Outline for a Middle School Shabbat Afternoon Retreat:**
[|The Spirituality and Leadership of Chanukah.doc]

**Our First Inter-generational program linking leadership and wisdom:**
[|Plans for Intergenerational Sukkot Program.doc] [|Sukkot Celebration flyer.dot]