Beth+Sholom+(Potomac,+MD)

Beth Sholom will create a pilot project engaging up to ten families in a program of immersive Jewish education oriented to making each of them more Jewishly self-sufficient; these families would become mentors to future cohorts. Each family will regularly attend classes offered on Shabbatot and Chagim, attend bi-weekly learning sessions focusing on Jewish holidays and Shabbat and would be geared to the practical experiences of Shabbat in the Home and Shabbat in the Synagogue., and participate in a variety of experiential Jewish learning. Mentor families will guide each family and share a significant number of Shabbatot and chagim.
 * __Beth Sholom__****, Potomac, MD (Orthodox, 450 household units)**
 * “Ambassadors from Within”**

11825 Seven Locks Road Potomac, MD 20854

Rabbi Mordechai Rackover rabbirackover@gmail.com
 * __Signups/Administrative__**
 * This is the pamphlet that we used in our synagogue to advertise the program. It was produced in-house.[|signup and promo.pdf]
 * This document is a check-in and planning form for our families.[|Learning Plan.pdf]

__**Hebrew**__
 * Poster used to advertise our Ulpan - a two week intensive Hebrew Course. [|Beth Sholom ulpan poster.pdf]


 * __Thanksgiving__**

__**Special Needs & Inclusion**__
 * Source sheet for discussion of Yitz Greenberg's Three Dignities from Beth Sholom's 'Disability Awareness Shabbat.' //Beth Sholom, Potomac// [|sources da shabbat.pdf]
 * A 'poem' from the viewpoint of a individuals with differences. //Beth Sholom, Potomac// [|The Synagogues We Belong To.pdf]
 * A short halakhic digest that discusses various issues in Jewish law such as hearing aides, and the categories of deaf and mute. //Beth Sholom, Potomac// [|special needs and halakha.pdf]

__**General Knowledge & Bibliography**__
 * Course outline for **//Echad MiYodeah//**, a 26 session course in adult Jewish literacy a wide-reaching course, 26 sessions, built around the song "//Echad MiYodeah//?" Who knows one? The included bibliography is incomplete and includes no articles or Hebrew texts at this point. //Beth Sholom, Potomac// [|course outline – Echad MiYodeah.pdf]
 * Foods of the Bible - Used this to get adults to consider what life was life in the Biblical Period. It is fun to have them think about all the foods they can name, all the foods that are not mentioned, and then have them plan a meal. This would be a great family education experience especially if it included a chesed component. Collection of sources and citations, from a website (noted in the file) and the Encyclopedia Judaica. //Beth Sholom, Potomac// [|foods of the Bible.pdf]
 * __Social Action__**
 * The January Issue of our synagogue magazine is dedicated to Social Action. The cover is totally awesome. The articles are good too. There is an article by Rabbi Rackover (page 4) describing a shulkhan arukh that is divided into four new sections based on relationships - Human and God, Human and Fellow, Human and Environment, Human and Self. http://www.bethsholom.org/Documents/Jan08web.pdf