Confirmation class is for students who have completed their Bar or Bat Mitzvahs -- for students in eighth and ninth grades. It is a two-year class leading to the Confirmation Service on Shavuot.

The class is taught by Rabbi Weiner and Cantor Jamie, and it meets on Thursday evenings from 6:30pm to 7:30pm.

This class provides the student with an opportunity to apply the values of Judaism that they have learned in prior years to events in everyday life.

Students who enter the confirmation class will examine and study the laws and customs of the Jewish life cycle. They will also examine and study the Jewish philosophy of current social issues. These issues include: drugs, alcohol, cults, abuse, suicide, disabilities, the elderly, charity, Israel, US-Israeli relations, Israeli-Arab relations, Soviet Jewry and Comparative Judaism.

It is through these highly personalized discussions that our teenagers get a stronger sense of their own personal Jewish identity, thus helping to prepare them for adult life.

High School is for students in tenth through twelth grades.  It meets on Thursday evenings from 6:30 - 7:30pm. The Cantor and instructor will work with the teens to develop a curriculum each year that addresses the interests of the group. These will include contemporary issues, text study, social action, history and current events. TBAY, our high school youth group will be incorporated into our high school program.