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holidays or partake in the rituals.
A strong religious school prepares
our youth to participate in their
Jewish community. To facilitate this,
we need to teach daily prayer rituals
and the components of a Shabbat
service.
Students must be familiar (and
comfortable) with prayers, both in
Hebrew and in English. Students also
should be able to explain why some
Jews stand, while others remain seated
during particular prayers. The familiar
question, "at what point in the service
should we bow our heads and why?"
should be addressed in religious
school.
The students of today will be those
leading the Jewish community tomor-
row. For the Jewish community to
have a strong future, we need to instill
strong religious beliefs, teachings and
morals in today's children through our
religious schools. I I
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FAIR WAGE from page 71
day care will soon be the norm for most
preschoolers, at least two or three days a
week.
Ironically, what most parents do
not know is that the future of quality
care is in real jeopardy just when its
value has been reaffirmed.
Did you know that 75 percent of
teachers in Jewish nursery schools are
currently between 35 and 65 years of <
age and only 13 percent of our teach-•
ers are between 18 and 34 years old?
If this trend continues, in five years
who will provide quality nursery
school and infant care to our children?
In the Jewish community we are
committed to high-quality care, and
this means quality staff. It is impera-
tive that we attract talented young
people to this field.
Unfortunately, this will not happen
unless nursery school teachers and
assistants, who often make less than
entry-level laborers, are given a
respectable wage.
The tug between raisingfees, mak-
ing top-notch preschool care available
to anyone who wants a Jewish nursery
experience, and synagogues' inability-
to budget more for nursery and infant
care operations are the key challenges
Facing our field.
I believe our community's determina-
tion to resolve these issues successfully
will be extremely important to ensuring
Jewish continuity among young families
as we Tice the next century. L.