Session 7: Pride
Participants will . . .
Become acquainted with the history of Pride celebrations
Explore their own sense of pride in their LGBTQ+ and Jewish identities
Write a blessing for their community
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Loving the Stranger: Immigration and Jewish Values
Participants will . . .
Explore Jewish experiences of immigration, noticing the historical overlap between antisemitism and anti-immigration bias.
Identify Jewish values around treatment of the “ger” (stranger) and decide how they might apply in modern immigration conversations.
Become familiar with the complexities of immigrants’ experience in the United States.
Tzelem Supplemental Activity: Purim: Courage in the Face of Adversity
Below is a supplement for Tzelem Group Leaders to fold into their group’s meetings. The activity can serve as a piece of a ninety-minute to two hour session, not as a substitute. We recommend planning an entire session and deciding where the below activity will live in the arc of the session. All Tzelem sessions follow a…
Let My People…Say No? Passover as a Story of Disobedience
Objectives: Participants will . . .
Explore their own experiences with defying authority.
Analyze Shifra’s and Puah’s disobedience as a paradigm for resisting injustice.
Learn how the Passover Seder has served as a symbol of resistance throughout Jewish history.
Why Shabbat?
Objectives: By the end of the session, participants will be able to: Identify the personal, social, and spiritual values underlying Shabbat.
Explore the models of shomer (guarding) Shabbat and zocher (remembering) Shabbat as different ways to relate to Shabbat observances.
Identity an observance that would help make Shabbat more meaningful in their own lives.
Sample Recruitment Letter for Participants
Course Overview. Session 1: All You Need is Love. Session 2: Cultivating Peace of Mind. Session 3: Mindful Speech. Session 4: Ordering Our Time/Family Routines and Structure. Session 5: Anavah/Balanced Parenting. Session 6: Moving Forward with Gratitude.
Welcome for New Partners
This selection of ten Jewish texts can be used to enrich the Moving Traditions B-Mitzvah Family Education series. The core question that these texts explore is – Why is age thirteen considered to be a time when “maturity” sets in? Other questions considered are: What are the spiritual changes that happen at that time? Is…
Facilitation Tips for Working With 5th-7th Graders
This selection of ten Jewish texts can be used to enrich the Moving Traditions B-Mitzvah Family Education series. The core question that these texts explore is – Why is age thirteen considered to be a time when “maturity” sets in? Other questions considered are: What are the spiritual changes that happen at that time? Is…
Urchatz: A Deeper Dive into Handwashing at the Seder
On this Shavuot, we invite you and the teens in your life to take some time to read and discuss an iconic Jewish feminist poem by Merle Feld. This poem is one that we use both with our Meyer-Gottesman Kol Koleinu fellows and with teen group leaders for our programs.
Shavuot Text Study: We All Stood Together
On this Shavuot, we invite you and the teens in your life to take some time to read and discuss an iconic Jewish feminist poem by Merle Feld. This poem is one that we use both with our Meyer-Gottesman Kol Koleinu fellows and with teen group leaders for our programs.