Ask any child of the kehila what their favorite night of the year is, and there's a good chance the answer involves Avot uBanim and a Chanukah party — the shul's 2nd Annual Avot uBanim & Chanukah Party is still remembered by families who joined in the early years.
Learning that belongs to them
Avot uBanim is simple by design: fathers and sons sit together in the Bet Midrash, open a sefer, and learn — with treats, prizes and the low hum of a room full of families. The point is not the prizes. The point is that a child's earliest memory of a Bet Midrash is of sitting in one next to his father.
A minyan to grow into
The shul's youth minyan programs date back to its founding years and give children a tefillah scaled to them — their own pace, their own responsibilities, their own turn at the amud when they're ready. Youth who grow up leading pesukei d'zimra in the youth minyan become the baalei tefillah of the main minyan a decade later. That is the whole plan.
Room to grow at last
In the rented years, youth programming shared every room with everything else. The new building at 3609 Quentin Road was purchased with exactly this in mind — more space for programs, more room for the next generation of the kehila to make the shul its own.
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