Praying With our Feet: A Teenager's Guide to the Jewish Social Justice Cycle of Noticing, Understanding and Doing
Learners will explore how prayer and text can be a tool to notice issues in the world and understand the Jewish obligation to respond to them. In the curriculum, learners will choose a cause to which they feel they can no longer stand idly by; and as they move through the proposed social justice cycle of noticing, understanding and doing explore how prayer and social justice can intersect to alleviate their chosen issue.
- Tefilah (Prayer)
- Social Justice
- Jewish Text and Thought
- 8 - 12
- After School and Beyond
- Teen Engagement
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Congregation Emanu-El of NYC. 8th graders explore different ways of doing social justice including fundraising and philanthropy, community organizing and advocacy as well as the Jewish context for these approaches. They volunteer throughout the year.
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