Do your students already know how to light the candles? Do they already know about the Maccabees? Here is a list of 21 fun and creative activities to make Chanukah come alive in the classroom. Some are appropriate for elementary school students, while others...
Teaching Jewish Texts: Authority and Relevance Abstract: Most Judaic learning, especially past the primary grades, is text-based. As people who study texts, we have preconceptions about those texts, which define our relationship to them. When we enter a...
I In the Spring 1991 issue of Ten Da'at, Avishai David took a bold step forward by opening for us the thorny issue of teaching about the Avot and Imahot here. Indeed, we owe him gratitude for his insights and thoughts. As the editor's prefatory note indicates,...
This article originally appeared in Jewish Education 54:4 (Winter 1986), p.27-38. Reprinted here with permission. This essay discusses the major findings of a study of how Jewish history is taught in modern Orthodox yeshivah high schools. [1] The researcher examined...
SEFER YONAH: LESSONS IN MERCY – PART 3 Grades: 9-12 Lesson Plan INTRODUCTION In this lesson, the students continue to examine and analyze the text of Sefer Yonah in order to fully understand one of its messages and why the text is read on Yom Kippur. LESSON OBJECTIVES...
SEFER YONAH: LESSONS IN MERCY – PART 2 Grades: 9-12 Lesson Plan INTRODUCTION In this lesson, the students continue to examine and analyze the text of Sefer Yonah to fully understand one of its messages and why the text is read on Yom Kippur. LESSON OBJECTIVES The...
SEFER YONAH: LESSONS IN MERCY – PART 1 Grades: 9-12 Lesson Plan In this lesson, students read chapter one of Sefer Yonah and are introduced to the conflict between Yonah and God. INTRODUCTION Sefer Yonah is read as the maftir to the Torah reading of Minha on Yom...
ROSH HASHANAH AS A DAY OF JUDGMENT – PART 2 Two 40-50 minute classes Grades: 7-8 Lesson Plan Students engage in independent text study to learn about Rosh Hashanah as a day of judgment. PROCEDURE 1. Go through the worksheet with students. Read each source together...
ROSH HASHANAH AS A DAY OF JUDGMENT – PART 1 Two 40-50 minute classes Grades: 7-8 Lesson Plan Students engage in independent text study to learn about Rosh Hashanah as a day of judgment. INTRODUCTION The holiday of Rosh Hashanah has several names. In this unit,...
This lesson introduces students to the unit and encourages them to consider the purpose of Birkat HaMazon. They will then compose their own version of the prayer.
