Kids & Families / משפחות וילדים
Freedom School
Kindergarten through 7th Grade
Welcome to Freedom School. We’ve built this program from the ground up so you and your kids can love being Jewish, together. By learning on Shabbat or on holidays and as a family, we cultivate Jewish fluency and contextualize Jewish practice as an organic way to approach the world.
Freedom City
8th through 12th Grade
Welcome to Freedom City, on-the-ground workshops in Jewish justice, for the teens of The Kitchen. We’re creating this experience for our young adults to put Torah into practice and bring real freedom to San Francisco.
Kitchen Playground
For families with infants through age 5
Bedtime getting in the way of your Shabbat? Kitchen Playground is a group of parents with kids five and under, coming together to build community and grow Jewishly. Feel free to come before services, hang out with other Kitchen parents and families, and get some shabbat in before your kids turn into pumpkins. Don’t forget to bring food for your early diners. Together we'll support, eat, and maybe tap into some Jew-ified parental wisdom that goes way beyond the healing powers of good matzah ball soup.
Playground TK
A Kitchen Playground Program
For families with children ages 4 & 5
Playground TK is a community of families, with 4 and 5-year-olds, who want to do Jewish, together. It’s our way of helping your family celebrate Shabbat + holidays with other families as you prepare to enter Kindergarten. We will follow the cycle of Shabbat: Havdalah, Kabbalat Shabbat, Shabbat AM, Afternoon, and Twilight. We believe celebrating Shabbat as a family is the best way to learn about Shabbat.
Playground TK 2024 kicks off with the Kitchen Escape, our next cohort begins in February 2025.
Resources
Anti-Racism Resources
Over the last month, we've begun a national reckoning around race, racism, privilege, and white supremacy. Whether talking about these topics is already a part of your home life or you don't even know where to begin, here are some Kitchen-Playground-approved resources to help:
Grown-Up Articles
for post-bedtime reading
Against Analogy - powerful essay in Jewish Currents magazine
America, This is Your Chance (Op-Ed by Michelle Alexander)
Believe Us: Black Jews Respond to George Floyd Protests in Their Own Words
Jews of Color, Covid-19, Civil Unrest — An Argument for Inclusion
Resources for Your Littles
to help you have the conversations
100 Race Conscious Things to Say to your Child to Advance Racial Justice
Talking Race With Young Children (Life Kit podcast)
These Books Can Help You Explain Racism and Protest to Your Kids (NY Times)
If you've been using others you'd like to share or you want to talk about how to talk about your kids, be in touch with Joel