On Sundays, Osnat Nyska meets with each class and accompanied by piano or keyboard, makes beautiful music. Our art curriculum is ongoing in all classes on an age appropriate level. Most grades have projects built into their curriculum. A goal is to have our students make ceremonial and ritual objects that will be used by them well into adulthood. An example of this is our seventh grade tallit work shops.
Students make and decorate a silk tallit of their own design.
They learn the history and ritual surrounding tallit and tzitzit, as they tie the tzitzit for their own tallit. Paying careful attention to all details, they even march into the sanctuary to Jewish music that they have selected. We encourage our student artists with our annual juried Tu B'Shevat Art Show, run by area artists and culminating in an art show for the entire synagogue community. We enhance our appreciation of Jewish Art through the Jewish Art Project . Periodically, on Sunday mornings, our lobby is filled with tables holding ritual and ceremonial art objects made by a specific grade.