How I Met Your Middot: Jewish Virtues in American Pop Culture
This curriculum presents eight teen-relevant middot through the lens of American popular culture. On a first level, this enables pop-culture-saturated learners to access the middot. But more than that, using pop culture shows learners the implicit Jewish content present in their overwhelmingly secular-looking world. A TV show character doesn’t have to be Jewish to display an act of courage, but through this curriculum learners will acquire the ability to recognize that character’s action on a deeper level, as an act of ometz lev.
- Arts and Culture
- Jewish Peoplehood
- Jewish Futures
- 8 - 12
- Camp
- Congregational Learning
- Teen Engagement
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