A "human timeline" activity lesson on queer history from the Roman Empire to the year 2016.
Learn what Novy God symbolizes and how it is celebrated - and delve into the story of Soviet Jewry, exploring the values of solidarity and freedom.
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
Meet the culturally diverse faces of Israel in this video.
The Land of Israel has a long and winding past that touches on many peoples, cultures and events, and the complex and rich history of Israel’s path to statehood is abundant with often-overlooked facts.
What’s the true story of the hundreds of thousands of displaced people in the Middle East? One of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict’s biggest hot potatoes is the idea that ethnic cleansing transpired against Palestinian Arabs in 1948.
A lesson plan focusing on the question "How do we turn towards change?".
In collaboration with RootOne, Makom has created a series of six conversation guides for teens on current events in Israel, including cultural trends, religious issues, politics, and more. The guides help teens develop important skills such as critical thinking, information literacy, and discussion while creating more space for complex conversations. They’re fun, educational, and engaging as well as being deeply relevant for our times:
This lesson plan explores the difficulty that Soviet Jews faced in expressing their religious beliefs. By The Lookstein Center’s Refusenik Project.
This two-day lesson uses the story of Purim as a frame to examine how Jews have preserved and protected their identities.