Religious School, Recently Back After 25 Years, Growing at Temple B'Nai Shalom
B'Nai Shalom, the only temple in Braintree, is on Storrs Avenue and serves a diverse and conservative congregation.
In a room of Temple B'Nai Shalom, a dozen students ranging in age from 5 and 6 years old to middle-aged sit at two rows of tables. Before them is a large yellow pad, two chalkboards and a white board, all filled with Hebrew vocabulary and the instruments of pronunciation. Down a short hallway, younger children play in another room. "George, how are you remembering things here?" asks Solomon Borocov, an instructor who helped re-start the religious school when he came to the temple on Storrs Avenue from a similar program at Thayer Academy four years ago. "Pretty good," the boy says. Standing in front of two maps of Israel – the school teaches history and geography along with Hebrew – Borocov quizzes his students on the pronunciation of "…
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