11/22 -11/23 Religious School - Important Covid-19 Update
11/20/2020 02:19:20 PM
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Congregation Adat Reyim
Hello Friends -
On Wednesday, November 18th, the Synagogue Executive Committee met and discussed the current Covid-19 situation in regards to synagogue events as well as in-person Relgious School. It was decided that Relgious School will be ONLINE ONLY for the forseable future. It was not an easy decision as we value the social/emotional benefits of in-person events. The risks and uncertainty to our staff and students at this point are too overwhelming to continue. The Executive Committee will continue to keep this on the monthly agenda for discussion. I am hoping that once the weather gets warmer and the Covid-19 numbers flatten out or there is a vaccine we can be in-person again.
Last Monday, during Relgious School, the 4th grade class Zoom meeting link was hacked by intruders. The people who accessed the classroom were not Congregation Adat Reyim students and shared inappropriate images and language. The incident has been reported. I want to let you know what we are doing to make sure this doesn't happen again.
On Sunday morning and Monday night prior to Religious School we are having a teacher meeting to review security measures.
Students will not be let in to the classrooms if they cannot be identified by their name. Please be sure that your student's name is on their profile when they are asking to be admitted into the Zoom room so we can be sure that we are ONLY admitting our students and not outsiders.
All Zoom security settings have been updated.
The 4th grade Monday Zoom link has been updated on the class links page.
I am so sorry that this happened. Please remind your students that if they ever encounter an uncomfortable situation in our Religious School classes or any other class they can always leave. The students emotional and physical safety is our number one priority.
Please note that we do not have Religious School next Sunday 11/29 or Monday 11/30 in celebration of Thanksgiving. The religious school calendar is locatated here (please disregard in-person learning at this time): https://www.adatreyim.org/welcome-to-adat-reyim-religious-school.html if you want to book mark it. In addition I save all of my communication on the RS Blog located here: https://www.adatreyim.org/religious-school-blog.html If you have any questions please call or text my cell for immediate need/response (708)261-8971, especially during school please use this number.
Shabbat Shalom and Happy Thanksgiving-
Elizabeth Bayer Executive Director and Religious School Administrator Congregation Adat Reyim 6500 Westbury Oaks Court Springfield, Virginia 22152 execdirector@adatreyim.org religiousschool@adatreyim.org (703)569-7577
