BESTT Calendar

Date

Event
August 9 Tisha B’Av
August 28 First day of BESTT (grades PreK-7)
Men’s Club Back to School Breakfast
Merit Scholarship meeting (grades 9-12)
August 29
First day of Monday Moadon
August 31 First day of midweek classes (grades 2-7)
First day of classes at the Blumkin Home (grade 8)
September 4-5 No BESTT or Monday Moadon (Labor Day Weekend)
September 10 First session of Jr. Congregation (grades 2-7)
September 11 Pre-K in session
September 25 Pre-K in session
September 28 Erev Rosh Hashanah – No BESTT Classes
September 29-30 Rosh Hashanah – High Holiday Youth Program
October 7 Erev Yom Kippur
October 8 Yom Kippur – High Holiday Youth Program
October 9 No BESTT
October 12 Erev Sukkot – No BESTT
October 13-14 Sukkot
October 16 Pre-K in session
October 19 Erev Shmini Atzeret – No BESTT
October 20 Shmini Atzeret
October 21 Simchat Torah
October 23 B’nai Mitzvah parents meeting
October 29-30 Shabbaton (grades 2-5)
October 30 No Class (grades 2-5)
Pre-K in session
November 5 Shabbat’s Chool #1 (grades Pre-K-7)
November 6 No BESTT Classes
November 13 Tour of Jewish Omaha (grades 5-6)
November 20 Parent program (grade 7)
Pre-K in session
November 23-27 No BESTT (Thanksgiving Recess)
December 4 Parent program “Belonging” (grade 6)
Pre-K in session
December 7 B’nai B’rith Bible Quiz (grades 9-12)
December 17 Shabbat’s Cool #2 (grades Pre-K-7)
End of First Semester (grades Pre-K-7)
December 18-31 Winter Break
December 21-28 Hanukkah
January 1-4 Winter Break
January 7 Jr. Congregation resumes (grades 2-7)
January 14 No Jr. Congregation
January 15 No BESTT
January 16 No Monday Moadon (Martin Luther King Day) 
January 17 BESTT Committee Meeting
January 25 End of first semester (grade 8)
January 28 Shabbat’s Chool #3 (grades Pre-K-7)
January 29 No BESTT
February 5 Primary Tu Bishvat activities
Pre-K in session
Graduation Meeting (grade 12)
February 8 Tu Bishvat
Tu Bishvat Activities (grades 2-7)
February 10-12 Community Teen Retreat, Lied Lodge
February 18-20 No BESTT – President’s Day Weekend
February 25 Mini-Shabbaton (grades 2-5)
February 26 Family History Program (Grades 4-5)
Pre-K in session
March 7 Erev Purim, Megillah Reading
Purim’s Cool (grades Pre-K-7) – includes dinner and Megillah reading 
No 8th Grade Classes
March 8 Purim
March 11 No BESTT
Purim Carnival 
March 17 No Jr. Congregation
March 18 Primary Pesach Activities
Pre-K in session
March 19 No Monday Moadon
March 21 Pesach Activities (grades 2-7)
March 31 No Jr. Congregation – Peach/Spring Break
April 1-9 Pesach/Spring Break
April 11 BESTT classes resume
April 15 Family Siddur Program (grades 2-3)
Pre-K in session
April 18 Yom HaShoah Service
No Chai School or 8th Grade
Yom Hashoah Teen Program (grades 8-12) 
April 19 Yom HaShoah
April 22 Primary Yom HaAtzmaut program
Pre-K in session
April 25 Yom HaAtzmaut program (grades 2-7)
April 26 Yom HaAtzmaut
April 27 High School Recruitment (grade 7)
May 5 Last session of Jr. Congregation
May 6 Consecration (grades 2-3)
May 9 Last Session (grade 8)
May 10 Lag BaOmer
May 11-13 Kadima Shabbaton (grades 5-8)
May 13 BESTT in session for grades K-4 only (no class for grades 5-7)
May 14 Last Session of Monday Moadim
May 18 Graduation (grades 7 and 12)
May 20 Yom Yerushalayim
Last day of BESTT
Pre-K in session
May 26 Erev Shavuot
May 27-28 Shavuot
May 28 Memorial Day