The aim of the Oyster Bay Jewish Center Religious School is to make your child's religious education a rich, fulfilling, rewarding and enjoyable experience.

Our curriculum has been carefully designed to develop the skills and attitudes needed to enable each one of our children to participate in the religious and cultural life of the Jewish Community as he or she grows into adulthood.

It has been said that the curriculum in a Religious School is a mile wide and an inch deep. There is no way to cover everything in approximately fifty hours a year. In fact, if one were to add up all the hours of Religous School for five years, without including sick days, snow days, extra holidays or days where extra-curricular activities prevent a student's attendance, they would be astounded to discover that the total would be equivalent to less than a month and a half of public school time. Taking this incredible fact into consideration, along with the knowledge that each child is special and has special needs, our curriculum has been developed to meet and exceed the needs of each one of them.

In our Hebrew Classes, in preparation to learn prayer, each student is taught to read individually at a pace with which he or she is comfortable. Prayers are also taught individually and in a group. From early on, students are encouraged to assist the Rabbi on the Bimah as well as lead the congregation in prayer. This familiarity with the services along with the ability to not only chant but lead in prayer will provide each of our students throughout their lives with the feeling of being comfortable participating in any service at any synagogue anywhere in the world.

Through our classes in Judaic study we place an emphasis on Torah, Holidays, Life Cycle, Holocaust, Community Life and Ethics. Our students are taught not only to have pride in their heritage and to know their place as a Jewish young adult and eventually a Jewish adult in their community, but they also learn to have respect, understanding, appreciation and acceptance of others who do not share in their religious and spiritual beliefs.

Judi Demant
Principal

Rabbi Marvin Demant
Administrator

Melvin Rudnitsky
Education Vice President