Makom Community NEWS

Embracing Learner Curiosity

The whole educator team at Makom Community puts a lot of hard work into planning thoughtful, goal-driven, meaning-making lessons for our kiddos. We’re proud of our curriculum and excited to see what the kiddos do with it. And also, it’s important for us to let the learning truly follow our students’ interests and inquiries, even when that means scrapping our…

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Everything A Camp Needs

Although the nominal theme of our August School’s Out Camp (held from 8/19-8/23) was “Animal Camp,” the most pertinent word to sum up our time together, at least for me, is “new.” In the weeks and days leading up to camp, Makom staff packed up our old site on Sansom Street and schlepped box after box to our new home…

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How to Teach Jewish Wisdom in Time of Division

At Makom our mission is deeply tied to the belief that Torah is always timely. When we learn Torah, there is always wisdom we can glean for right here and now. As we begin this school year, our goal is to create space within the safe container of Makom Community for our learners and their families to imagine…what would the…

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A Letter from our Executive Director & Founder

Beverly Socher-Lerner

Beverly Socher-Lerner

Dear Families and Jewish Educators,

Thank you for visiting Makom Community online! We are a makom (place) where kiddos and their families experience a joyful community that embraces them and their whole family for exactly who they are! We envision a future where Jewish Education is joyful and accessible for all who want to partake. In Jewish tradition, a makom is the kind of place where someone grows into who they CAN be. We hope our makom will be that kind of place, too.

You can expect warm, personal, and playful experiences for your child or grandchild at Makom Community. Makom Community is a living laboratory for a new model of Jewish Education. We strive to create a high-quality experiences for urban families who are on a shared adventure that prioritizes empathy and connection in a durable way and brings Jewish learning into our lives.

At Makom Community, our educators are guided by our unique pedagogy, Jewish Placemaking. Jewish Placemaking encourages learners to ask mind-boggling questions, invites kiddos to co-create an environment with their educators and friends that invites questions and meaning-making from Jewish wisdom, and welcomes families as interpreters of Jewish wisdom, regardless of the way they came to be a part of the Jewish community. Our learning is focused on the social-emotional skills our tradition teaches, which we live each day in our community.

Our work is not limited within the space of our Lab School and family-centered community. We are constantly researching, enhancing, and expanding tools to support our pedagogy. We then take these lessons and provide professional development and support to educators across the country who are also doing the holy work of adding children and their families voices to generations of Torah. We call this Makom Making.

We warmly invite you to explore all that Makom has to offer and we look forward to forming relationships with you that will help shape Makom Community for years to come!

Warmly,
Beverly