Parents: if you are not a member of Schaarai Zedek and are trying to enroll in Religious School,
please email office@zedek.org to have your account activated.
Registrations must be processed in the Temple Office by August 15th for your child(ren) to begin on the first day of Religious School. Registrations after August 15th will be paused until September 8th and students will not be able to be registered during that time.
Schaarai Zedek Members: $500 per student
Non-Members: $750 per student (one year only)
Note: Students enrolled in the Madrichim program will not be billed. Tuition applies to students in Pre-K through 9th grade.
It is the policy of the Religious School not to enroll a student in a class until all temple obligations have been met and/or arrangements have been made with the Executive Director, Marc LeVine.
If you need to make arrangements, please contact Marc at (813) 876-2377, ext. 206 or mlevine@zedek.org.
A member’s child is never excluded from Schaarai Zedek Religious School for financial reasons.
The basic premise of our curriculum is to think of Jewish education not merely as a matter of communicating facts but rather as an effort to provide a positive learning environment in which young people can become proud participating Jews who are confident in their identity.
From early childhood, a child learns by experiencing, doing, touching, hearing, seeing, tasting, and smelling the richness of our heritage. Our school is based on the fact that, as our sages put it, “it is not the learning that is the essence, but the doing.”
In reality, whether children or adults, we learn what we do. Our students are given a foundation from which they are encouraged to explore and question their relationship to Judaism.
At Congregation Schaarai Zedek, we are building a warm, comfortable, and positive climate of Jewish experience and Jewish learning for our children, providing resources so those values can be reinforced in the home. We look forward to partnering with our families on their Jewish journeys in all shapes and forms.