Teaching About Abortion Through a Jewish Lens

To be relevant to young people today, Jewish education must speak to the big, divisive, complicated issues they experience in their lives and the world around them. This past week, the issue many young people read about and reacted to was access to abortion.

Our goal at The Jewish Education Project is to help Jewish educators navigate this topic and facilitate conversations with their learners through a Jewish lens. To that end, we have curated educational resources from a variety of Jewish perspectives, and trust that educators will be able to select those that are most suitable to the environments in which they educate. 

While we are not an organization that advocates on particular issues, we do advocate for Jewish educators to help their students be engaged, informed citizens, invested in the future of their country. Undoubtedly this type of involvement is a Jewish tradition, as for generations Jews have called on our rich texts and values to help shape their opinions and actions about complex matters. We never claim to have all the answers or resources, but we hope our compilation at this moment helps educators and students alike.