On the 26 March 2019 the Year 7s of Emanuel School went to multiple shuls (synagogues) to learn about the different streams of Judaism. We visited 4 different shuls, although we heard about five different streams of Judaism.

In each shul we had the rabbi or rabbis talk to us about the different types of Judaism and then there was an activity we had to do for that particular shul. The synagogues we visited were Emanuel Synagogue in Woollahra, The Great Synagogue in the City, Coogee Synagogue in, well Coogee, and the Sephardi Synagogue also in Woollahra. The denominations of Judaism that we learnt about were: Progressive, Renewal and Masorti at Emanuel Synagogue, Orthodox at Coogee and The Great, and the Sephardic way of Judaism at the Sephardi Shul.

In each shul we learnt about many different aspects of each way of Judaism such as what are some customs, what they believe in and what they support, such as same sex marriage, and why did the rabbi become a rabbi.

We appreciated the time that the rabbis gave us and how we learned new things about the different types of Judaism that we didn’t know before.

Year 7