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MISSION STATEMENTS |
Develop a modern Orthodox mission statement for your school NEED: A mission statement is a broad and general philosophical statement that expresses the most basic purposes of the school. It answers the questions: "who are we and why are we engaged in this enterprise?" PROCESS:
POSSIBILITIES:
The proposed school will aim at the highest standards of academic excellence in both Jewish and secular studies. It will aim at producing students who are thoroughly at home in both contemporary society and the full range of the Jewish heritage. It will unashamedly aim at creating leaders in all spheres of contemporary life, individuals whose sense of Jewish responsibility is deep and broad, encompassing an identification with the Jewish people in its totality, with Jewish history in its diversity, and with the state of Israel in its centrality. It will promote the Jewish traditions of principle and tolerance, intellectual depth and social concern, loyalty and generosity, academic rigor and ethical example. It will take as its task the projection of an Orthodox way of life and thought that earns the admiration of others of whatever faith. It will aim at creating in its pupils an integrated personality whose Jewish identity is knowledgeable, secure and proud, a spur to achievement and responsibility, and a challenge to exemplary citizenship in an ethnically and religiously plural society. (Taken from Rabbi Jonathan Sacks, "Profile of an Educated Jew," 1988, p.8) |