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Shavuot: The Shnei Luchot HaBrit
SHAVUOT: THE SHNEI LUCHOT HABRIT 60 minutes Grades: 9-12 Lesson Plan INTRODUCTION The Torah teaches us that the Aseret HaDibrot (Ten Commandments) were on two tablets, the Luchot HaBrit. The midrashim offer several opinions, but in this lesson, we will look at two of...
Teaching Tanakh
It is one of the oldest literary collections ever written and still very much in circulation. Public readings (and celebrations) of its text are practiced in nearly every synagogue in the world in a regular, fixed cycle. It has been analyzed and studied by religious...
Teaching Tanakh Winter 2025
The Lookstein Center’s How To Teach Israel Fall 2024 edition offers a platform for Jewish educators and laypeople to network, learn, and share.
How to Teach Israel
It feels pretentious and premature to be talking about retooling education about Israel. The war is not over, the wounds are still fresh, barely a year has passed since that awful day, there are thousands of children-parents-loved ones still in active combat and...
How to Teach Israel Fall 2024
The Lookstein Center’s How To Teach Israel Fall 2024 edition offers a platform for Jewish educators and laypeople to network, learn, and share.
6/7 Grade Jewish History Spring Cohort
8/9th Spring Cohort
Big 10
What Is The Big 10?The Big 10 is a flexible, digital values-based curriculum for middle school. Students discover the Jewish values hidden in each of the commandments and explore how we can each use these values to guide our everyday behaviors, priorities, and...