We hope you are well and we thank you for your ongoing patience regarding our plans for Nature Explorer Camp this summer. We have spent significant time reading through and evaluating the new guidelines and regulations given to us by the Massachusetts Department of Health in collaboration with the Department of Early Education and Care. We are sad to share with you that Nature Explorer Camp will not open in Summer 2020. This decision was made in the careful consideration of the best interest of our families, staff, teachers, and children.
While the recently developed plans for reopening summer camps allow for a camp season in technicality, we feel that it is important to use this time to prepare our space and staff for a smooth fall opening. We know the need for quality childcare is desperate, and we are evaluating every possible avenue to welcome your children back to Temple Shalom as soon as possible.
Camp families have the options of requesting a refund of camp tuition, applying the payments towards outstanding or future Temple Shalom Nursery School charges, or making a full or partial donation to ensure our excellent early childhood programs continue to run. Please click here to indicate your decision , or be in touch with Caroline Dorn if you would like to talk further about your options.
We will miss you and your children this summer, and we look forward to the day where we can gather for Shabbat on The Hill once again!
Becca Yudkoff Director of Nature Explorer Summer Camp
Lucy Banerji Director of Temple Shalom Nursery School
Caroline Dorn Membership and Engagement Coordinator at Temple Shalom
Blessing Hard Times Tuesday, Aug 18th 12:00a to 1:15p Blessing Hard Times: What Mishnah Berachot teaches about patience, endurance and gratitude
In this interactive course, we will look into the Talmud to study selections from Mishnah Berachot, which may be familiar to those who have been doing -- or hearing about -- Daf Yomi (daily Talmud study). We will look at a handful of mishnayot (in English) through the lens of personal and communal hardship and discuss how the wisdom they contain might also apply to our present situation -- both personal and communal.
Naomi Gurt Lind has been a member of Temple Shalom for nearly 20 years. Spurred by the belief that there is no higher calling than taking care of one another, last September she started rabbinical school at Hebrew College in pursuit of a long-held dream. She sings with the Zamir Chorale of Boston and is active in LimmudBoston, serving as Chair of the Board of Directors. In her free time, she hangs out with her husband and their two genius boys, solves crossword puzzles (in pencil), and bakes a legendary challah.
