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Shalom! Thank you for visiting Congregation Beth Shalom!
My name is Roland Roth and I have the honor and privilege of being the Director of Education and Programming here at Congregation Beth Shalom in wonderful Wilmington, Delaware.
As I begin my third year at your service I look back on a first two years filled with great joys and triumphs. The biggest area of joy has been in our quadrupling the size of our Hebrew School. We went from a projected enrollment of 25 to 30 to almost one hundred in just two years. Teachers, parents, and staff have been very flexible and accommodating, open and caring, strong and supportive, and that is how we have grown so successfully. We are budgeting to have over 100 children in our educational offerings by the end of the 2007-2008 school year!
Each month Beth Shalom publishes the Kol Shalom. In each issue I publish an article focused on the educational and programming aspects of life here at Beth Shalom.
Below are my articles from this past two years as well as current articles that I have written. I invite you to peek into life here at Beth Shalom and to email me with any feedback and suggestions you might have.
It is with great gratitude and admiration of our families and supporters of our Hebrew School that I am confident that this coming school year will be as successful, if not more, as my first year here at Beth Shalom was. Rabbi Michael and I welcome you with open arms to our community and look forward to assisting you with the Jewish education of our community’s Future.
Hazak, Hazak, V’nithazek: Be Strong, Be Strong, and You will be Strengthened.
Shalom,
Roland Roth
Director of Education and Programming
Congregation Beth Shalom
Wilmington, Delaware
5766: 2005-2006
Oct. 2005: As the Gates are Opening
5766 Yom Kippur Address
Nov. 2005: How About a Fresh Start… or Two?
Dec. 2005: A Chance to Build Community
Jan. 2006: Growing, Learning, Doing
Feb. 2006: It’s Just Hair
Mar. 2006: Be Prepared…
Apr. 2006: Thou Shall Not Stand Idly By
May 2006: Into the Wilderness… with a Good Idea of Where We’re Going
Jun. 2006: Raising the Bar, Setting the Standard
Jul. 2006: Champion Your Spirit
Sep. 2006: 31st Annual C.A.J.E.
5767: 2006-2007
Oct. 2006: Labeling Excellence
Nov. 2006: Strangers in a Strange Land
(honoring Dina Lipschultz)
Dec. 2006: A Season of Family, of History, of Giving, and of New Traditions
Jan. 2007: Mazel Tov, CBS! Now Get On With It!
(honoring Osnat David)
Feb. 2007: The Teacher As Investment
(honoring Deena Alyce Oliphant-Nekoukar)
Mar. 2007: When Anti-Semitism Hits Close to Home
(honoring Meredith Weiss)
Apr. 2007: Passover, Beyond the Exodus, Beyond the Four Questions
(honoring Ilene Bloom)
May 2007: Consecration and Teacher Recognition Shabbat
(honoring Melissa Hinspeter)
Jun. 2007: What’s Jewish About Baseball?
(honoring Ira Horden)
Jul. 2007: Programming for the Next Generation of CBS Leadership
Aug. 2007: Investing in our Children, Cultivating our Future
Sep. 2007: Lilmod u'Llamed To Learn and to Teach
5768: 2007-2008
Oct. 2007: Leaders Build Foundations of Leaders
Nov. 2007: If We Had A Minyan... the Silent CBS Crisis
Dec. 2007: An Open Letter to My Grandmother Ruth
Jan. 2008: A Light Amongst the Nations
Feb. 2008: Talking to Children About Tough Topics
March 2008: From the Outside In: Creating Community
April 2008: A Family That Prays Together
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