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ample, is part of a na-
tional organization.
JPI is independent,
but affiliated with the
Coalition of Secular
Humanistic Jews.
JPI students at-
tend their clubs every
Sunday morning for
just over two hours.
While their children
are in class, some
parents opt to meet
separately for infor-
mal programs and
speakers.
Last Sunday, as
JPI held its mid-year
open house, clubs
were conducted as
usual. In Carolyn
Stabenow's first-
grade class, the chil-
dren talked about
tzedakah and
brought in the quar-
ters they earned from
doing good deeds
around their homes.
When their project is
completed, the money Father and son: Darin and Dustin Borlack.
will go to the Jewish
ican Jewish experience and life-
National Fund.
JPI educates children from cycle events.
In a comparative Judaism
nursery school through eighth
club,
the students learn about the
grade.
Teens can opt to participate in different ways Judaism is prac-
a b'nai mitzvah program which ticed. "We want our kids to un-
combines community service and derstand there are lots of
study of the Torah and Talmud different ways of being Jewish,"
in English. The year is culmi- Ms. Wolfe said.
Alan Kaufman, who chairs the
nated in a shared b'nai mitzvah
JPI
governing board, was raised
ceremony. After the eighth grade,
students have the option of be- a Conservative Jew but never
coming a teen assistant and considered himself a religious
working in the classroom. Ms. person. He and his wife, who is
Stabenow, one of 10 JPI educa- Puerto Rican, wanted their chil-
tors, works with her son Justin dren to feel comfortable with
their two identities.
in her class.
"JPI is sensitive to both sides,"
The curriculum at JPI varies
he
said. "A significant number of
with each grade level, but every
year the entire school gives sig- our families are intermarried and
nificant attention to Rosh the children have parents with
Hashanah, Yom Kippur, Sukkot, different ethnic identities.
"JPI gives us a nice sense of
Chanukah, Purim and Passover.
In their classrooms, the community although it's subtle.
younger children talk about Jew- We don't do a lot of things that
ish symbols, holidays and Bible expressly denote us as a com-
munity. I think the way the com-
stories.
During subsequent years they munity is best demonstrated is
learn about Jews around the through the b'nai mitzvah and
world, modern Israel, the Amer- holiday celebrations." ❑
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Office Manager Elisa Freilich receives birthday wishes from JPI first-graders.