Curriculum and Details
Our Or Shalom Community School curriculum is experiential, hands-on, and inter-age, designed to spark curiosity, connection, and creativity. Students in 1st-6th grades engage with shared themes in developmentally appropriate ways, making it possible for learning to extend beyond the classroom and into the home, encouraging ongoing family conversation and growth.
This year, we’ll journey through the beauty and mystery rooted in the elements around us—Earth, Air, and Water—exploring Jewish ritual, movement, and community culture through the lenses of diaspora, liberation, and embodied spirituality. Through engaged community action, critical thinking, creative expression, and deep spiritual blossoming, our children build meaningful Jewish connections to tradition, family, friends, and themselves.
All sessions are held from 4:30-6pm in Bernal Heights.
Or Shalom Community School Calendar 5786 (2025-26)
October 2025
- October 21
- October 28
November 2025
- November 11
- November 18
December 2025
- December 2
- December 9
- December 16
January 2026
- January 6
- January 13
- January 20
- January 27
February 2026
- February 3
- February 10
- February 24
March 2026
- March 10
- March 17
- March 24
April 2026
- April 7
- April 14
- April 21
- April 28
May 2026
- May 5
Meet our Community School staff!
Mira Stern
Head of Youth & Family Education
mira@orshalomsf.org
Hi! I’m Mira Stern—a queer, white Jewish mama, a fourth-generation San Franciscan, and a lifelong educator. After 15 years working in K–12 schools as a classroom teacher (10th grade World History!) and a program manager, I launched my own consulting practice focused on liberation education and advising. I work with tech companies, organizations, and school systems to develop equity strategies that have long-term impact, all rooted in racial justice and community building.
I’m a Jewish ritualist and love drawing from ancestral practices and weaving them together with body-based, pleasure-centered approaches to create spaces of belonging, healing, and collective liberation. I lead retreats, workshops, and online courses—all with the goal of cultivating real human connection, vulnerability, and room for each of us to step into our highest selves.
When I’m not chasing after my fiery, bold toddler on some epic Bay Area adventure, you can find me on my mat in hot yoga or pilates, tending to my 24 fruit trees in East Oakland, hosting delicious Shabbat dinners (Martha Jewart is my alter ego!), or planning my next getaway on this wild and beautiful planet.
I’m so excited to step into this role and bring my whole self—educator, parent, ritualist, and community curator—to the work ahead. I’m especially eager to build out robust programming that centers deep embodiment of Jewish magic and ritual for young people and families, helping instill the incredible medicine we’ve inherited—and the tools to reshape it for the chaos and beauty of right now. I’m also deeply honored to help build a teen program that roots our next generation in social justice, community interconnectedness, and fierce self-love.
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Enrollment for 2025-26 is open!
Thank you to our community for a wonderful 5785 school year! We had a tremendous time with our 1st-6th grade students.
Please stay tuned for information about the 2025-26 school year. For any programmatic questions before then, please contact the Head of Youth and Family Education, Mira Stern, at mira@orshalomsf.org. Please complete the enrollment form first before requesting financial aid.
Cost of Program
The cost for the Or Shalom Community School is $1050 for members and $1,350 for new members (tuition and membership are bundled). When you pay the new member rate, your family is provided with membership for your first year of participation. If you need financial aid, please reach out to us AFTER completing the enrollment form. No one will be turned away for lack of funds.