Jewish Learning
A Hebrew School Your Kids Can Love
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Pleasantville Community Synagogue Hebrew School is a thriving community within a community. With children from towns all over Northern Westchester - in our Kindergarten through Seventh Grade alone - our intimate and nurturing environment is an active and exciting one. Peer support, caring teachers, the guidance of the rabbi and school director, all go into making the PCS Hebrew School experience one that is valued by both the children and their families.
Our Hebrew School seeks to create for our children an Olam Yehudi Katan, a small Jewish world, experiential as much as it is academic. The staff of caring, committed teachers under Galit Messman’s direction work to fashion what amounts to an extended Jewish family, where each child is appreciated and loved. The continuity of the teaching staff coupled with the intimacy of the teaching environment allows for an extraordinary level of relationship-building with both children and parents. We offer various programs for families with young children from infancy on, such as Tot Shabbats, home-based holiday celebrations, and "Growing Jewish Naturally," a series of events funded by a grant from UJA Federation that offer Jewish experiences with nature, organic food and the environment. For our teens in middle school and high school, we offer a variety of social, cultural, religious and volunteer opportunities in our own community and the broader Jewish world. |
An important and innovative addition to our children’s education has been our monthly Family Education Shabbat. The Saturday morning study, led by the Rabbi and based on the Torah portion of the week, provides our children with a rare chance to talk about things that really matter with their friends and their parents at the same time. Their friends give them support, their parents give them perspective.
HEBREW SCHOOL AND RELATED FEES - PCS requires that at least 50% of fees be received by September 1st for registration to be complete. PCS will send invoices for any unpaid balance, and if arrears remain on December 31st, and other payment arrangements have not been made, children will not be allowed to continue with classes during the spring semester. PCS is committed to ensuring that Jewish education is accessible to our members' children without regard to their ability to pay, and some of our families participate in our fee assistance program. Our fee assistance program is confidential, flexible, and takes into account individual factors including income, assets, number of children in the Hebrew School, and other financial obligations. Please send an email to the PCS Treasurer for information regarding fee assistance.
HEBREW SCHOOL AND RELATED FEES - PCS requires that at least 50% of fees be received by September 1st for registration to be complete. PCS will send invoices for any unpaid balance, and if arrears remain on December 31st, and other payment arrangements have not been made, children will not be allowed to continue with classes during the spring semester. PCS is committed to ensuring that Jewish education is accessible to our members' children without regard to their ability to pay, and some of our families participate in our fee assistance program. Our fee assistance program is confidential, flexible, and takes into account individual factors including income, assets, number of children in the Hebrew School, and other financial obligations. Please send an email to the PCS Treasurer for information regarding fee assistance.
Click here to learn about our Educational Director, Galit Messman.
HEBREW SCHOOL REGISTRATION FORM (online)
BAR/BAT MITZVAH
PCS Shabbat Songs and Prayers: https://soundcloud.com/julie-danan