Do your students already know how to light the candles? Do they already know about the Maccabees? Here is a list of 53 fun and creative activities to make Chanukah/Hanukkah come alive in the classroom. Some are appropriate for elementary school students, while others...
Much can be done to make the Seder more relevant to contemporary needs and simultaneously truer to the spirit of the Rabbis as educators. Noam Zion presents the Hagaddah as an educational dialogue between parents and child, leader and participant. He offers stories...
Abstract: All things on earth, be they animate or inanimate, are affected by time. However, only man is keenly aware of time. While animals may react instinctively to a time or seasonal change, only human beings are conscious of time's passage and actually measure...
Tu b’Shevat, the Jewish New Year of the Trees, is a good time for Torah learning about trees. I’d like to share with you a mishnah that has always concerned me, and see if we can learn something new that will help us enhance our appreciation of nature. Rabbi Shimon...
Based on a text composed by Shlomo Goren, Chief Rabbi of Israel with Forward by Joseph H. Lookstein, Chairman, Rabbinic Cabinet, United Jewish Appeal, for the observance of an Israel Independence Day family, congregational or communal seder. (1978) Click here. ...
This article is collection of readings in Hebrew that are appropriate to be read during a Yom Ha'atzmaut Seuda. To read the article, click here.
This article employs various models to compare different analyses of "The Four Sons". The learning models are analyzed and compared with respect to the attributes of consistency, utility, and learning style inventories. To read the article, click here.
This article explores the role of women and the view of Rosh Chodesh as a women's holiday. To read the article, click here.
Sukkot Resource Sheet for Teachers Background Information: What: Sukkot is a seven day Jewish holiday. It is one of the three major holidays in Judaism called Shalosh Regalim (lit. Three on Foot), when Israelites would pilgrimage to Jerusalem for festivities and...
This article originally appeared in Tradition, vol. 33, 3, 1999, pp. 6 ff. Appears here with permission. Although Tanakh is the word of God, its study is often neglected today.1 The anecdote of the yeshiva bakhur who knows the Bible only through its citations in the...