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Meet Incoming Executive Director, Rachel Margolis

2013-04-26T12:34:42Z

We want you...to share your opinion!

Rachel Margolis, our Incoming Executive Director, will be at Midrasha this Sunday, April 28. She is working on some exciting changes for Midrasha and would like to hear from you! This is your chance to have your voice heard with the Midrasha program! Please plan on joining us at 4pm on Sunday to speak with Rachel.

Can't make it on Sunday? Start sharing your opinion with this brief survey about class times.

Have more to say? Feel free to contact Rachel at RachelAMargolis@gmail.com.

Special Announcement - Director Transition

2013-04-26T12:30:25Z

Dear Midrasha students, parents, and friends,

As some of you may have heard, I will be starting a two-year full-time MBA program at UNC-Chapel Hill this summer, so it is bittersweet that I tell you that I will be stepping down as Midrasha Director at the end of this semester. I have truly enjoyed working with our amazing students and talented faculty this year and getting to know the unique individuals that make up our community.

While I am sad to be leaving this role, I am excited to announce that the Board has hired a phenomenal Incoming Director, Rachel Margolis. Rachel is a graduate of the joint MAJE and MAJNM program at Hebrew Union College in Los Angeles. She has worked as the Program Director of Cornell Hillel and the Director of Education at University Synagogue in Los Angeles. Since moving to the Triangle Region, Rachel's has served as a Jewish Education Consultant, working with synagogues and Jewish Federations around the country.

I look forward to continuing to work with students, parents, and faculty on a weekly basis through June 1st while Rachel works as a consultant with us to assess the Midrasha program and revitalize it with exciting changes for the fall. If you have ideas, questions, or just want to get to know Rachel, please plan on coming to meet her at Midrasha on Sunday, April 28, or send her an email at rachelAmargolis@gmail.com.

Shabbat shalom,
Jessie Zaleon

What is the Community Midrasha?

2012-07-06T18:02:59Z

Programming

Community Midrasha's classes, mishpacha programs, and monthly special events are held on Sundays from 4-6 pm in the Education Building of the Judea Reform Congregation. Please refer to our 2012-2013 schedule listed under Calendar.

All our offerings are organized around the following pillars:

History and Culture
Talmud Torah
Contemporary Judaism
Service Learning

Our students have the opportunity to register for two courses each semester. Offerings include Sacred Text Study, Tikkun Olam, Israel, Jewish History, Contemporary Culture and Identity, Jewish Arts, Jewish Rituals and Spiritual Practices. Healthy snacks are served during class. Special events that are held revolve around the Jewish calendar.

Mission and Purpose:

Community Midrasha's mission is to engage teens in learning about Jewish culture, history, and religion and to inspire in them a lifelong commitment to Jewish learning, practice and community.

We are a pluralistic Jewish learning community where teens (grades 8-12) from all over Durham-Chapel Hill, NC come to learn, to laugh, and to be inspired. We welcome all teens regardless of synagogue affiliation or prior religious education. Mirroring the diversity in our student body, our teachers are Rabbis, educators and graduate students from all streams of Jewish life and practice.

Admissions Policy:

The Community Midrasha welcomes students of any race, color, national origin, ethnic origin, sexual orientation, and gender to all the rights, privileges, programs, and activities generally accorded or made available to students at the school. It does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, ethnic origin, sexual orientation, and gender in administration of its educational policies, admissions policies, and other school-administered programs.