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Child and Family Programming and Childcare for High Holidays 2021

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AARC offers an engaging and flexible series of High Holidays learning opportunities and services for children and families, led by AARC Beit Sefer (religious school) Director Clare Kinberg. To take part, please fill out the Child and Family Programming Form. For now, due to COVID-19 safety considerations our children’s services and child care will be open to members only. If we are able to invite the public, we will update this webpage.

High Holidays Children’s Services Schedule:

  • Tuesday, September 7th, 10:30am: Rosh Hashanah Children’s Service at the UU
  • Thursday, September 16th, 10:30am: Yom Kippur Children’s Service at the UU

If you have any questions about this programming, please email us. We looking forward to sharing this sacred time together!

High Holidays Childcare Signup:

  • Children and caregivers will be required to wear masks while indoors.
  • High Holiday Childcare is offered for children 2 years of age and older.
  • The childcare room will be located in the Jackson Lounge in the main corridor leading to the sanctuary. Vaccinated teens over 12 may stay in the boardroom across the hall.
  • Both childcare rooms will be staffed by qualified caregivers.
  • Childcare for members who sign up by September 1 is free of charge.  Reservations (and payment) should be made by September 1. Members who do not sign up by the deadline will be asked to pay $10 per child per day.Without advance reservation, childcare will be offered on a space-available basis only.  Sign up online below.
  • If we are able to open up childcare for non-members, the cost for non-members is $20 per child per day.  
  • Payment is due by September 1, by mailing a check or paying online using the Donate button to the right.
  • Please note that children under 13 must remain in childcare or be supervised by an adult at all times; children cannot be allowed to roam on their own while on the Unitarian Universalist Congregation premises. Children may leave childcare only if an adult picks them up.

Time to think about Camp Tavor

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Thanks to Shani Samuel for sharing her thoughts on Camp Tavor.

My name is Shani Samuel and I help out at the AARC Beit Sefer on Sundays as a teachers assistant and tutor for the 3rd and 4rth graders of the AARC. Although my role is as a teacher, I am still in the process of learning. It might sound a bit strange, but a lot of that learning comes from my summer camp, Camp Tavor.

Tavor-Shani2Tavor provides a framework for informal education where kids between 3rd grade and college age can discuss and learn about Judaism, and topics related to it, in a way which engages and encourages each child to think about and develop their own Jewish identity.

Tavor is my home away from home, and the friends I made there are some of my best. It is an open and accepting environment, where people can really be themselves, and can connect to each other without all the cliquishness and pretension that they face at home.

For more info on Camp Tavor, please visit the Camp Tavor website.

All are welcome at either of two upcoming Ann Arbor info sessions on Camp Tavor

Sunday, Feb. 8, 2015,  4:30pm-6:00pm
at the Home of Dana Horowitz and Avram Kluger
2510 Kimberley Rd.
Ann Arbor, MI 48104
or
Monday, Feb. 9, 2015,  3:00-4:00
Hebrew Day School of Ann Arbor
2937 Birch Hollow Dr., Ann Arbor, MI 48108

Questions?  Call Brittany, 224-619-5969

Also feel free to ask the Lessure/Engelbert family,  Zivan family,  Lowenstein family,  Samuel family,  Deb Kraus, Eisbruch family or  Salzman/Newell family about their kids’ Tavor experience.