Rabbi Jill Maderer’s Blessing to the Buerger Early Learning Center Graduates, Congregation Rodeph Shalom, 2014 (Inspired by this year’s Dr. Seuss week…) The sun did not shine, It was too wet to play. So Bueger ELC Had graduation day! Many of you‘ve been with us from start. Others...
“Find yourself a teacher and acquire for yourself a friend,” Pirke Avot teaches. This article about child care and early education rather than “day care” is an interesting reminder about the learning and care our Buerger Early Learning Center teachers bring our children every day. Today, we were thrilled to...
Our rabbis joined the end of year celebration at the Buerger Early Learning Center wth Shabbat Blessings, which was almost as exciting as the fire engine, water ice and face painting. Check out more pictures at Rodeph Shalom’s facebook page.
On June 23, the Young Friends of Rodeph Shalom hosted the Toast for Trees fundraiser to directly benefit the Buerger Early Learning Center, making it a better and greener place for kids to play. Trees will help soften the edges of the Synagogue, improving and beautifying the neighborhood. The tree planting will engage...
The Buerger Early Learning Center: A Joint Program of Congregation Rodeph Shalom and Federation Early Learning Services, is preparing to open! There will be an Open House for parents interested in learning more about the center (619 N. Broad Street, Philadelphia, PA. 19123) on Thursday, July 22, 4-7pm and on...
by Rabbi Jill Maderer Check out this week’s Jewish Exponent article about the Buerger Early Learning Center: A Joint Project between Congregation Rodeph Shalom and Federation Early Learning Services! The piece includes a rendering by our architects from KieranTimberlake.
The RS Buerger Early Learning Center (ELC) enrollment is now open! To learn more about Center City’s only full-time Jewish preschool, and to secure a place for your child, please contact the FELS enrollment representative, Eileen Lashin, at 215-635-5570 x125 or elashin@felskids.org. As we finalize plans for our September 2010 opening,...
by Rabbi Jill Maderer When it comes to city living today, many of us are living on top of one another while we don’t even know each other. The neighborhood is so transient; one of the greatest challenges of our day is to make meaningful, lasting connections. Such ties are the...
by Rabbi Jill Maderer An Early Learning Center at RS: “From the lips of babes and infants you have established strength” (Psalms 8:3). Next fall, our “youngest generation” will strengthen our community with its daily presence at a Congregation Rodeph Shalom of Center City Philadelphia Jewish preschool. The Congregation’s new property...
