HAGIGA 2010-11
An Innovative Shabbat Morning Education Program

This Year's Theme -- CELEBRATING OUR 18TH YEAR: CHAI

Hagiga, Kol HaLev's education program now in its sixth year, embodies our community's vision for youth and family education. 

This Year's Program

This year's overarching Hagiga theme will be "Celebrating our 18th Year: Chai" and coincides with Kol HaLev's 18th year in existence.  Hagiga means celebration and we will be celebrating Chai (life) and learning!  We look forward to an exciting program for our children with even more emphasis on family and intergenerational learning this year. May we continue to grow from strength to strength.

 Our year will start with a family program on Sunday, September 12, 2010. Hagiga will then meet on the first and third Shabbat mornings of each month from 10:15 am - 12:30 pm, October through May.

Hagiga's Mission Statement

The mission of the Congregation Kol HaLev’s Educational Program is to provide a range of joyous, exciting educational and social opportunities for all members of Kol HaLev, especially the congregation’s Youth and their families. The opportunities will foster a desire to become committed Reconstructionist Jews who identify with Kol HaLev, the Cleveland Jewish Community, the American Jewish Community and k’lal yisrael
(The Jewish People). The program will provide participants with a strong Jewish knowledge base and recognition of the importance of life-long questioning and Jewish learning.

Hagiga's Vision Statement

This educational program will be an informal, intergenerational education model where there is an inherent learning partnership between the teacher, the learner and the subject matter. The students are brought into the learning process as active, valued participants. The subject matter will be linked to the real life situations of the learners. The learning spaces will be flexible and there will be cooperative learning groups engaging in experiential activities which include drama, art, music, dance, games, creating writing, role-playing and activities outside the walls of the classroom. Learning will involve families and at times other members of the Kol HaLev community. Madrichim will be volunteers, if possible, trained and supervised by our director of education. Where possible, this program will be coordinated with the educational products/efforts of JRF (the federation of more than 100 Reconstructionist communities), No'ar Hadash (JRF Youth Programming), and Camp JRF.  We envision that Kol HaLev will attempt to engage our youth from preschool through the college years.

How to Learn More

CLICK HERE for a detailed schedule and Hagiga Handbook.

Prospective members: please contact our office. A member of our Membership or Youth and Family Education Committees will be glad to tell you more.

Thanks to the Legacy Heritage Foundation for their third Innovation Project Grant which attests to the success of the previous years of our program and their faith in our continued efforts.