Transformative Teshuvah: A High Holiday Resource For a More Just World
Created by The Avodah Institute for Social Change This resource collection, useful for educators' own reflection and learning and for older students, contains a series of text studies, tools for reflection, artistic interpretations, and activities, created by a range of rabbis and Jewish educators
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Created by The Avodah Institute for Social Change
This resource collection, useful for educators' own reflection and learning and for older students, contains a series of text studies, tools for reflection, artistic interpretations, and activities, created by a range of rabbis and Jewish educators, providing different pathways to explore the question: How do we turn towards change?
(from their introduction)
The previous year-and-a-half included seismic shifts in the ways we see, face, understand and discuss injustice. From the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic to racial justice uprisings to threats to democracy to ongoing catastrophes of economic, climate, carceral, and housing injustice, we have seen even more deeply how all of those intersect. As we head towards the start of this new year, many of us are trying to find our way back to what feels like normal. But we have to remember, in the words of Sonya Renee Taylor, “Normal never was.”
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- By building our capacity for vision and imagination
- By paying attention to whose voices we hear crying out for change
- By holding ourselves responsible for what we’ve done and accountable to what we’ve learned
- By honoring our losses and creating true space for grief
- By recognizing the fragility of our homes, including the Earth, and protecting their sanctity
- By examining and expanding the stories we identify as essential
- By creating and maintaining systems for true rest and communal care
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A lesson plan focusing on the question "How do we turn towards change?".
In this week’s episode, transformative Jewish thinker Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg joins us for a rich conversation about morality and justice, and how we as educators can empower our students to imagine a brighter future. Rabbi Danya sheds light on how the Torah’s earliest stories, values, and the
Congregation Kol Ami White Plains, NY. Mesorah (tradition) is a choice-based model for 7th-12th graders that includes CORE learning and hands-on, experiential, project-based learning electives.
The Pyramid of Hate is a powerful framework for understanding how bias escalates—from biased attitudes and stereotypes to discrimination, violence, and even genocide.
Fun educational activities to help people with disabilities learn and connect with the Jewish Holidays and traditions.
In the Beba Epstein exhibition, students will learn about Jewish life before WWII and the Holocaust through Beba’s autobiography.