Anshe Chesed Fairmount Temple Religious School

Our Anshe Chesed Fairmount Temple Religious School provides a Jewish educational environment to teach Judaic concepts, values and practices.

Jordana Chernow-Reader, Rabbi-Educator

Our Anshe Chesed Fairmount Temple Religious School provides a nurturing Jewish educational environment to teach Judaic concepts, values and practices that will inspire and strengthen individual and collective commitment to God, Torah and Israel. It is the goal of the school to foster independent and critical thinking, to encourage emotional, intellectual and religious growth and to motivate constructive and caring relationships between students, instructors and the content.

Fairmount Temple’s Religious School includes a variety of learning experiences:

  • Formal classroom experiences
  • Informal retreats and Shabbatonim as well as a variety of special programs including Family Learning Days for all grades
  • Parent-Child Hebrew, a very popular program in which parents learn alongside their children
  • Hineni (“Here I am”) a new program for studetns in 7th – 12 to continue to enrich their Jewish education in a customized program