Dear Parents,
We understand the busy lives of teenagers today, particularly in NYC, and we also recognize the challenges of parents trying to guide headstrong teenagers into certain decisions! We also understand that everyone wants to feel connected to something meaningful and to be a significant piece of something to which you belong.
Through the creative energy of Youth Advisor Greg Weitzman in combination with Rabbi Michael Friedman’s and my years of successful programming work with teens, we have re-envisioned how we can provide exactly those experiences for your 8th through 12th graders, while allowing their opinions, needs and desires to shine through.
CiTY (Central’s Temple Youth) is a new concept for post Bar and Bat Mitzvah age kids – a multi-venue program designed to tap individual interests and cultivate deeper, more meaningful relationships between teens and their peers, Central Synagogue and their world.
Within CiTY, there are four programmatic tracks in which your child can participate:
Weekly classes aimed at the more academic minded teen
Taps into both the social and spiritual sides with Shabbat services and dinners, book groups, film screenings and tours of Jewish NY
Geared towards those looking for community service, with events like the Midnight Run and the AIDS walk (great for college resumes!)
For the teens who just want to hang with friends on ski trips and other social events
Your teen is invited to participate in as many or as few events as his or her busy schedule permits. The financial commitment is $1000. This tuition entitles your child to unlimited events, meals at each event, and one over night experience, like the 4 day trip to Washington, DC, where Jewish high school students come together to learn how to lobby Congress.
Please give CiTY some real consideration, and encourage your teen to give this a try. Jewish involvement doesn’t have to end at 13…that is the age at which so many of the struggles with faith begin, and tremendous growth – emotionally and spiritually – occurs. In New York City, the pace is particularly hectic with multiple influences effecting these changes. What better place to wrestle with these issues than at Central?
Click here for a registration form and commit to being a partner with us in this endeavor.
Sincerely,
Yonni Wattenmaker, RJE
Director of Lifelong Learning
(212) 838-5122 x 4031
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