Health & Safety

COVID Positive & Exposure Protocols

Please contact us if you, a member of your household or child’s classroom tests positive for COVID.  Information we need from you in any of these situations:

• Date of symptom onset or positive test (whichever is earlier)

• Date of last contact with positive individual (for exposure)

Consistent with Jewish values, we strongly encourage our members and school families to focus on self-care, while being attuned to the needs of others, and take advantage of the many tools available which make us all safer in the face of this virus:

• Vaccinations for everyone eligible.

• Booster shots for everyone eligible.

• Wearing a mask when recommended, to prevent transmission of the virus.

HEALTH AWARENESS: It is critical that you monitor how you and your children are feeling before coming to the TOS campus.  Symptomatic/ill individuals should not come to the TOS campus unless they have a negative COVID-19 test. Health for you and our community comes first.

MASK POLICY: Temple Ohabei Shalom is a “mask-friendly” environment.  Masking is at one’s own discretion for all who are in the building.  We ask that you take the well-being of others into consideration in your decision about mask-wearing.  If you choose to wear a mask for your own protection, or to protect someone close to you, please feel welcome to do so. 

Masks are required at TOS for the following: 

• When returning from COVID-19 isolation if you are getting a positive result on a rapid test (days 6 – 10 after illness).

Masks are strongly encouraged at TOS for the following:

• Symptomatic individuals who have tested negative for COVID-19.

As we continue to do everything we can at TOS to keep our community safe and healthy, we will continue to keep you informed of updates to these policies and protocols. Please feel free to contact Shari Churwin at any time (schurwin@ohabei.org) with any questions you may have.

 EXCLUSION, QUARANTINE, AND ISOLATION POLICIES

Test positive for COVID-19

Days 0-5: Stay home/isolate. Can return to TOS with:

• Negative antigen test before returning  AND

• Fever free for 24 hours and other symptoms improving AND feeling energetic enough for an active day

• High quality mask (N95, KN95, KF94, or well-fitting surgical mask) is encouraged

Day 6-10: Can return to TOS with:

• Negative antigen test on first day back  AND

• Fever free for 24 hours and other symptoms improving AND feeling energetic enough for an active day.

• High quality mask (N95, KN95, KF94, or well-fitting surgical mask) is encouraged

OR

• Fever free for 24 hours and other symptoms improving AND feeling energetic enough for an active day (even without a negative antigen test).

•    High quality mask (N95, KN95, KF94, or well-fitting surgical mask) is required

Day 11: Can return to TOS with no testing or masking necessary, as long as 24 hours fever free and other symptoms subsiding and feeling energetic enough for an active day.

Classroom/Household Exposure

An exposure is contact of at least fifteen (15) minutes over a 24 hours period at distance of six (6) feet or less. 

Days 0-6: Can remain at school with all of the following:

• No symptoms; Carefully monitor for symptoms and test if symptoms develop.

• And strongly preferred through day 6: Negative daily rapid antigen or PCR test AND High quality mask (N95, KN95, KF94, or well-fitting surgical mask)

Symptomatic individuals

Can remain in school if they have mild symptoms, are tested immediately onsite, and that test is negative.

*Our staff reserves the right to determine if students are symptomatic and require a test.

Symptomatic individuals are encouraged to wear a high-quality mask, if possible, until symptoms are fully resolved.

For symptomatic individuals, according to DPH recommendations, they should test again within 48 hours if the initial test is negative.

If the symptomatic individual cannot be tested immediately, they will be sent home and allowed to return to school if symptoms remain mild and they test negative, and they have been fever-free for 24 hours without the use of fever-reducing medication and their symptoms are resolving, or if a medical professional makes an alternative diagnosis.