Jewish Life

The Weber School is a Jewish community high school that celebrates and serves the rich and diverse Jewish communities of Atlanta. Our school is a unique community; we work to cultivate common language, experiences and commitments while respecting and nurturing the distinct Jewish practices and identities of our students and faculty.

What does it mean to live, believe, and practice as a Jew in our modern American world? If we look around us at the Jewish world and the Atlanta Jewish community we see that there is more than one answer to these questions. As a school, we recognize and embrace these multiple answers and the diverse Jewish communities they produce.

It is not our goal to graduate young Jewish adults who practice or believe in one specific type of Judaism. Instead, we seek to strengthen our students by engaging them in intellectual, social and spiritual Jewish experiences.

The Weber School asks students to challenge themselves and each other to explore who they are and where they come from. We seek to create experiences, such as tefillot (prayers) and Shabbatonim (Shabbat experiences), for the many communities in our midst - students and teachers with shared beliefs and practices - to come together to support and develop their particular Jewish identities.

Our students leave The Weber School as deeply thoughtful and committed Jewish young adults, more confident in their personal Jewish identities and more open to and knowledgeable about the diverse Jews and human beings in their world.

Why Is This Approach To Jewish Education So Important?

We live in a Jewish world of harsh divisions, judgmentalism, and misunderstanding. If we seek to educate our children to respect the dignity of all Jews and human beings, it must start with a community that models those kinds of respect.

The Weber School fosters dialogue and interactions between Jews of different practices and beliefs, because until you know someone you cannot truly understand them.

Bringing different Jews together to learn, eat, play, comfort, and celebrate as a community, we nurture young adults who are open and inclusive, and who respect the dignity of every Jew and human being, whether or not they agree with his/her practices or beliefs.