Temple Sholom is committed to providing lifelong learning to its community and with the addition of our Chris Kraus, our new Director of Lifelong Learning, will be developing and implementing our new educational vision that is consistent with our unique niche in Cincinnati and consistent with our culture of innovation, intimacy, and inclusiveness.

  In this section of our website, there are pages dedicated to all aspects of providing this learning

  We provide our children excellent education with our Religious School, including our Tzur Shalom shared religious school with Rockdale Temple

  Our students can continue their Jewish education at the Cincinnati Reform Jewish High School.  

  We offer excellent lifelong learning opportunities with our Adult Education with lectures, classes, local cultural events, and learning services. 

  To support our interfaith and inclusiveness efforts and to support our interfaith families, we are also offering Interfaith Workshops and Programs

Temple Sholom has launched its innovative multi-generational Ivrit (Hebrew) classes:

Chris Kraus joined Temple Sholom as our new Director of Lifelong Learning on July 1st

In this role, Chris will be working with our temple community to develop and implement our new educational vision that is consistent with our unique niche in the Cincinnnati Jewish community.

Chris has taught at all levels of the Wise Temple religious school, had a decade of camping and counseling experience at the URJ Goldman Union Camp Institution, a 4-year liberal arts studies degree in the psychology of religion at Bowdoin College, two years of graduate ecumenical theological studies at the Harvard Divinity School, Kivunim (New Directions)
Intitute of Experiential Learning for Israel & World Jewish Communities Studies 2008.  

Chris is also currently Visiting Instructor in Jewish Education at HUC-JIR, Cincinnati.    Chris was also recently selected as this year’s honoree from HUC-JIR for the Celebration of Teaching Award.

Chris and his wife Bari, who is an early childhood education professional, have two teenage daughters.

We are very excited to have Chris join us to lead us in creating a truly unique and community-centered lifelong education vision.

His email address is:  LifeLongLearning@TempleSholom.net

Temple Sholom welcomes Chris and his family to our community.

To read more about Chris, Click Here:  Bio

3100 Longmeadow Lane     Cincinnati, OH  45236

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