Support School visits from JCoB
At JCoB Education, we are experts in the Jewish element of the RE syllabus and have been
teaching children in Reading and the area about Jewish life at home and in the synagogue for
many years.
We offer assemblies, a synagogue workshop where we set up a classroom as a synagogue, and
workshops on Shabbat, Sukkot, Passover (Pesach), Chanukah, Jewish life, any other
topic related to Judaism, including training for teachers. Children get
to meet a real Orthodox rabbi, or a Rabbi’s wife, or both. Our materials are modern and we cater
for any age group.
We have visited schools in person in a wide area around Reading, from Bristol to West London,
and from Portsmouth to Luton. We have also visited schools virtually as far afield as Liverpool,
Newcastle and Wales, and we know the positive effect our visits have on
children. We provide children an authentic, nondogmatic understanding of Judaism and what it
means to be Jewish and practice Judaism.
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This is the most important work one can do to combat antisemitism in the UK.
Children who understand what it means to be Jewish, who have tasted Jewish food, who have
connected with a Jewish teacher who can communicate our tradition authentically while showing
(and teaching) the value of respect for the other faiths around us — such children will be
better equipped to challenge the antisemitic narratives they will encounter in their adult
lives.
Unfortunately, many schools have very tight budgets and cannot afford to book the visits that
they badly need. Your support can change that, allowing us to offer free and subsidised visits to
schools who need them.
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We also work more generally to improve Judaism RE in the region and
the UK. We need your support so that we can do this work, as the
schools we visit cannot afford to cross-subsidise this other important work.
As representatives in three of the six SACREs in Berkshire, Rabbi Zvi and Rebbetzin Shira wrote
most of the Judaism section of the 2018-2023 Pan Berkshire Syllabus. We are currently working hard
to make sure that the Judaism portion of the new Pan Berkshire syllabus retains the high quality
of the current syllabus in the face of radical changes in the teaching of RE.
Many materials are used in the UK to teach about Judaism in schools that have not been properly
vetted by Jewish education professionals. Schools (particularly in areas of the country with few
or no Jews) need guidance so that they can locate materials they can trust. We would like to
allocate time to this important work, which we can do with your support. Again, the schools we
visit cannot afford to cross-subsidise our other work.
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Many schools wish to utilise our services but lack the funds. We cannot afford to offer our
services for free at the moment as we lack outside funding. You can change that.
If you would like to help, please fill out this form and you will be taken to our
donation page.
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