#ONWARD HEBREW

welcome to the conversation!

#OnwardHebrew is a grassroots initiative spearheaded by Jewish education directors motivated to address the challenges of Hebrew learning in their part-time/ congregational programs. In the fall of 2017, there were just five synagogues using #OnwardHebrew's sound-to-print approach. Now, five years later (August 2024), 64 educational programs are officially "On-the-Way" or "All In" with #OnwardHebrew, impacting over 10,000 children.

#OnwardHebrew offers a plethora of resources to support YOUR personal exploration and (hopefully) experimentation. We invite you to consider the experiences of colleagues and benefit from a wide variety of articles, documents and other supports.

Come join the conversation - here on this website, as well as on our Facebook group. In addition, we invite you to speak one-on-one with Nachama, the #OnwardHebrew director, to get your specific questions answered - be in touch by writing to OnwardHebrew@ gmail.com.

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The "on-the-way" list

#OnwardHebrew is delighted to celebrate the part-time/congregational programs that have adopted the principles of sound-to-print learning, integrating three of the four learning pillars with the support and blessing of their clergy and volunteer leadership:

Adopting Hebrew Through Movement
Enriching Hebrew usage in t'fillah/worship
Integrating Jewish Life Vocabulary
Introducing Hebrew decoding after students developed a rich foundation in the sounds of Hebrew (5th grade or later)

If YOUR program should be on this list, send us a note via the CONTACT tab, above.

B'nai Israel Congregation (Rockville, MD)
Beth David Reform Congregation (Gladwyne, PA)
Beth Israel - The West Temple (Cleveland, OH)
Community Synagogue (Port Washington, NY)
Congregation Beth El of Montgomery County (Bethesda, MD)
Congregation Beth Elohim (Brooklyn, NY)
Congregation Beth Shalom (Naperville, IL)
Congregation Emanu-El B'ne Jeshurun (Milwaukee, WI)
Congregation Emanu El (Houston, TX)
Congregation Mishkan Or (Cleveland, OH)
HAMAKOM (Los Angeles, CA)
Ikar (Los Angeles, CA)
Jewish Reconstructionist Congregation (Evanston, IL)
Kehillat Israel (Pacific Palisades, CA)
Kol Tikvah (Woodland Hills, CA)
Main Line Reform Temple (Wynnewood, PA)
North Shore Congregation Israel (Glencoe, IL)
Ohef Sholom Temple (Norfolk, VA)
Or Chadash (Flemington, NJ)
Rockdale Temple (Cincinnati, OH)
Sha'ar Zahav (San Francisco, CA)
Shaarei Shalom Temple (Boynton Beach, FL)
Stephen Wise Free Synagogue (New York, NY)
Temple B'nai Torah (East Bellevue, WA)
Temple B'rith Kodesh (Rochester, NY)
Temple Beth Am (Jupiter, FL)
Temple Beth-El (Northbrook, IL)
Temple Beth Israel (Fresno, CA)
Temple Beth Or (Raleigh, NC)
Temple De Hirsch Sinai (Seattle, WA)
Temple Emanuel (Denver, CO)
Temple Isaiah (Los Angeles, CA)
Temple Jeremiah (Northfield, IL)
Temple Shalom (Dallas, TX)
Temple Sholom (Broomall, PA)
Temple Sholom of Chicago (Chicago, IL)
Temple Sinai (Atlanta, GA)
Temple Sinai (Sarasota, FL)
Temple Solel (Paradise Valley, AZ)

The "all in" list

#OnwardHebrew is delighted to celebrate the part-time/congregational programs that have adopted the principles of sound-to-print learning, integrating all four of the learning pillars. If YOUR program should be on this list, send us a note via the CONTACT tab, above.

Bet Shalom Reform Congregation (Minnetonka, MN)
Beth Am Israel (Penn Valley, PA)
Chicago Sinai (Chicago, IL)
Congregation Ahavath Beth Israel (Boise, ID)
Congregation B'nai Israel (Willimantic, CT)
Congregation Beth Am (Los Altos Hills, CA)
Congregation Gates of Heaven (Schenectady, NY)
Congregation Kerem Shalom (Concord, MA)
Congregation Or Shalom (Chicago, IL)
Congregation Rodeph Shalom (Philadelphia, PA)
Congregation Rodef Sholom (San Rafael, CA)
Congregation Shaarai Shomayim (Lancaster, PA)
Congregation Sukkat Shalom (Wilmette, IL)
Jewish Community of Amherst (Amherst, MA)
JQuest, Keneseth Israel (Philadelphia, PA)
JQuest, Temple Isaiah (Lafayette, CA)
Shir Hadash Synagogue (Wheeling, IL)
Sinai Synagogue (South Bend, IN)
Suburban Temple - Kol Ami (Cleveland, OH)
Temple Akiba (Culver City, CA)
Temple Beth El (Bloomfield, MI)
Temple Beth El (Boca Raton, FL)
Temple Beth-El (Providence, RI)
Temple Beth Shalom (Hudson, OH)
Temple Beth Sholom (Miami Beach, FL)
Temple Isaiah (Lexington, MA)
Temple Israel (Tallahassee, FL)
Temple Israel of Northern Westchester (Croton on Hudson, NY)
Westchester Reform Temple (Scarsdale, NY)

the #OnwardHebrew leadership team:

Nachama Skolnik Moskowitz, #OnwardHebrew (retired: Jewish Education Center of Cleveland)
Dr. Isa Aron, HUC-JIR (retired), (Los Angeles, CA)
Rabbi Nicki Greninger, JQuest, Temple Isaiah (Lafayette, CA)
Rabbi Amy Hertz, Temple Isaiah (Lexington, MA)
Rabbi Stacy Rigler, Association of Reform Jewish Educators (ARJE)
Rabbi Adam Schaffer, Temple Aliyah (Los Angeles, CA)
Rabbi Stacy Schlein, Jewish Education Center of Cleveland (Cleveland, OH)
Dr. Kathy Schwartz, Jewish Learning Works (San Francisco, CA)