Jewish Citizenship Education: Integrating Israel Into Jewish Education

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Essay by Joshua S. Ladon

Topic
  • Israel - Contemporary
  • Jewish Peoplehood
  • Israel - State
  • Israel - The Land
  • Jewish Identity
  • Zionism
Grades
  • Not Grade Specific
Setting
  • After School and Beyond
  • Charter/ Independent School
  • Early Childhood
  • Early Childhood Education
  • Educator Training
  • Camp
  • Congregational Learning
  • Day Schools and Yeshivas
  • Family Engagement
  • Teen Engagement

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Light blue people icons against white background. Text on left of page says "The Arab population in Israel 1,997,800 people = 21% of Israeli society." Middle of page, circle graph with "78%" written inside, "1,555,000 Citizens of Israel" written below. Right of page, circle graph with "18%" written inside, the text "350,000 East Jerusalem residents" written below. Below, following written: "Due to a lack of consistent data, and the exclusion of about 24,000 Golan Druze, these numbers do not add up to 100%"

An infographic resource providing useful terminology, snapshots of the daily lives of Arab citizens of Israel.

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Listen on Apple or Spotify When Israel was created on this exact day 78 years ago, she didn’t come with an instruction manual called “How to Build a Jewish State.” If she had, Jewish educators wouldn’t be grappling today with the tensions between Israel’s Jewish and democratic values, or needing

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After October 7, educators were asked to guide students while still making sense of their own evolving relationship to Israel and to Jewish peoplehood. What does it mean to teach when the ground beneath the curriculum is still shifting? What has changed in Israel education? What do educators need to

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