To Register for our 2023-2024 School Year, please visit your ShulCloud portal.
If you are a new student or family interested in JQuest, please contact Admin@JQuest.org. You will need a ShulCloud account in order to register your child.
JQuest is KI's Jewish education experience for kids in grades K-6. Quest Noar (7-10): CLICK HERE!
We have an engaging and comfortable program to fit everyone’s needs. We are looking forward to safely reconnecting to our synagogue and community.
Our synagogue theme for the year is Hesed (loving-kindness). We will explore this theme in our JQuest programming.
Our Sunday Start Date is September 10th, 2023!
Our Tuesday Start Date is September 12th, 2023!
Click Here for the JQuest Calendar!
Sunday JQuest Learning
Grades K to 6
9:15 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.
In Person Learning
All staff are required to be vaccinated.
Tuesday Zoom Hebrew Learning
Grades 4 – 6
4:45 p.m. – 5:15 p.m.
Zoom Class
15 Minute One on One Zoom Hebrew Decoding~ Choice of Sunday through Thursdays Evenings.
JQuest is religious school re-imagined for families of Elkins Park, Abington, Philadelphia, Upper Dublin, Lower Moreland and beyond. Keeping the same goals for Bar and Bat Mitzvah that existed in the Hebrew schools of the previous decades, JQuest uses 21st century educational research to ensure students learn more, dig deeper, and have a more fun, engaging experience. JQuest focuses on community, creating Jewish memories, and building Jewish relationships.
At JQuest we help kids bring Jewish learning to life in the following way:
Jewish Life: Using project-based learning students work together to learn about Jewish history, customs, and traditions. At JQuest they generate individual meaning, explore their creative passions, and have experiential opportunities to achieve grade-level curriculum goals with guidance from clergy and teachers.
Prayer and Holiday Study: Students explore the foundations of Jewish life through regular child-focused T’fillot (prayer) led by our clergy each week, as well as the foundations of holiday rituals in the home and synagogue.
Hebrew Study: JQuest is a Hebrew rich environment. Each week students learn a letter and word of the week and our younger students participate in Hebrew through Movement, an interactive aural Hebrew program. After gaining a strong aural foundation older students begin to decode (sounding out letters to form words) in small groups to achieve mastery based on their own learning needs.
We are committed to ensuring a positive experience for your family, providing support for all kinds of learners and welcoming all families seeking to raise a Jewish child. We strive to ensure that KI is a Jewish organization committed to diversity, equity and inclusion.
JQuest has earned national accreditation from the Association of Reform Jewish Educators.
For the JQuest Family Handbook click here.
For the JQuest Service Attendance Tracker click here.
Other Link: ReformJudaism.org
Prayers by Cantor Levy:
School Closing Information
Please note: When questions arise due to inclement weather, building closures will be noted on the KI voice mail message 1 hour before the service/event.
CALL: 215-887-8700
In case of inclement weather that necessitates the closing of Religious School, please do one of the following to check:
- School closings will be posted on the home page of the Keneseth Israel website and our Facebook page. Messages will be sent via an e-mail blast.
- Tune to KYW and listen for our school number: 324 (JQuest & Quest Noar)
- Our Name will appear on ABC
If you don't hear our school name, it means school is in session.