Communiteen is a two-year program that encourages students to explore their Jewish identity using Jewish sources to discuss family history, life issues, and their personal relationship to the Jewish people.

Communiteen gives teens Judaism their way! This program stimulates students intellectually, spiritually, emotionally, and socially. Teens share questions and concerns in an open, welcoming atmosphere with peers from all Jewish backgrounds.

Students receive a certificate of completion at the end of two years of study. There are no tests and no homework. Classes are discussion based, guided by expert teachers able to relate to teens.

Temple Beth Sholom supports the Communiteen program as one educational choice for its post B’nai Mitzvah students.

Communiteen is held on the Sarasota-Manatee Jewish Federation campus at 580 McIntosh Road, Sarasota, Florida 34232. For more information, contact Program Director, Rosa Mandelblum at (941) 371-4546 ext. 107 or by emailing Rosa Mandelblum.

COURSES OFFERED

• The Big Ideas of Being Jewish
  This course explores critical ideas and questions in Judaism, such as, the worth of human life, ethics and free will, the meaning of evil, and teen issues of money, sex, and family through text-based discussion. This two-year course provides tools to make life decisions using what Judaism has to offer.
  
  
• The American Jewish Experience
  This course is taught during the first year and explores how Jewish identity is a composite of the people experiences and events that preceded us. It relates the Jewish experience to general U.S. history, and helps students identify this history as their own story.
  
  
• Why Israel?
  This course is taught during the second year and explores Israel’s significance to American Jews by looking at Israeli culture, geography, politics, and international relations.

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