There are a lot of great Hebrew schools in the Delaware Valley, but none are quite like that of Congregation Beth Am Israel. At the synagogue in Penn Valley, students are not constrained by artificial walls — literally, said Beth Am Israel Executive Director Rabbi Micah Weiss.

“Our program is called Jewish by nature. It’s an all-outdoor religious school program. Our congregation is situated on woodlands, which is the classroom for our religious school. It’s a relatively new program that we launched coming out of the pandemic, and it’s an Earth-based nature program that is centered around nature education, but is grounded in Torah and Jewish values. It’s a fun, creative and child-centered experience, where we do the usual synagogue and Jewish education work, but in a natural setting,” Weis

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