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?
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?".
A series of sheets featuring Sukkot from Neot Kedumim, the Biblical Landscape Reserve in Israel.
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:
Explore the Ethiopian Jewish holiday of Sigd with these resources and lesson plans.
Build your own mental health menorah, and channel the resilience of the Maccabees into your Hanukkah experience.
Start a new Thanksgiving tradition with this intergenerational learning experience.