CAJE-RAMBAM PARENT PROGRAM: THE BALANCING ACT: BEING A JEWISH PARENT

Description

Connecting parents through Jewish text study to explore raising children (IN PERSON COURSE).

Location

IN PERSON: Rambam Day School

Date & Time

TUESDAYS, 9am-10:30am ET (IN PERSON COURSE)

“Just as my ancestors planted for me, so I plant for my children.”


-- Babylonian Talmud, Ta’anit 23a

 

Course Description :

Parenting young children, while often a blessing, can sometimes be an isolating experience. Now and then, we all need to talk to another grown-up. This course was created in partnership between Project Zug and Kveller to offer parents a way to meet and connect  through exploring what it means to be a Jewish parent. 

This 4-session course uses text-study as a mode to explore the multiple demands and values that are constantly tugging at Jewish parents. What from your own parent(s) are you trying to pass on to your kids? When should you prioritize yourself over your kids? What does it meant to raise a child as Jewish? 

TUESDAYS, 9am-10:30am ET (IN PERSON COURSE)

DATES: Oct. 27; Nov. 3, 10, 17, 2026.
 

             
About the Instructor:
 

Rabbi Jason Cook I know how important it is to be surrounded by loving community and people who care. I have lived in lots of different places and seen Jewish life expressed in lots of different ways. While home is Portland, Oregon, I was born in Rochester, New York, where much of my family remains, grew up in northern California and even lived in Germany (I can’t say I remember it well, I do have a love of piping hot soft pretzels—a holdover favorite snack since I was a kid). During high school, I was inspired by the RAC L’taken program, NFTY, and the rabbis at my synagogue to commit to leaving this world better than I found it. After high school, I moved to Washington, DC where I went to college at American University. While at American, I studied abroad in Belgium where I held an internship with a Jewish NGO. It was my abroad work experience that made things click—I wanted to be a rabbi! I knew that becoming a rabbi was the right path for me because it was the clearest way that I could make an impact on my community. My alma mater’s motto is “Ideas into action, action into service.” I read that statement not as an ideal, but as an imperative. 
 
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