Jewish Cultural School (Machar)

Machar’s Sunday school integrates Jewish history, culture, values, and practice into a developmentally appropriate curriculum at each grade level, from our Tots class for preschool-aged children through the B’Nei Mitzvah year. Our new Post-Mitzvah service learning program gives teens an opportunity to play a leadership role as they initiate community service and social justice activities on behalf of the congregation.

Our talented and dynamic teachers incorporate literature, writing, discussion, and the arts to engage children in ways that help them understand and relate to the curriculum content. The curriculum builds, year by year, to create a unified experience in the history and culture of the Jewish people, studied through the framework of our secular humanistic Jewish values.

Observing and understanding the significance of Jewish holidays is an important part of our educational program, and we hold children’s services at Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur prior to the congregational services. We have annual Hanukkah and Purim parties, and also commemorate other holidays in our inter-generational Community Sunday gatherings. Children learn about holiday traditions in a humanistic context.

Location

6045 16th St NW
Washington, DC 20011