Objectives: Participants will... Learn about the diverse ethnic, religious, and identity groups that contribute to Israel's cultural mosaic. Deepen their understanding of what it means to be Israeli, recognizing both the benefits and complexities of Israel's diversity. Engage with modern Israeli culture, appreciating how Israel's diversity enriches the global Jewish experience.
Objectives: Participants will . . . Explore the idea of home: Where is home for you? What, or who, connects you to home? Reflect on what it means for Jews from all over the world to have a “home” in Israel. Analyze their connection to Israel through the lenses…
Objectives: Participants will... Explore the idea of home: Where is home for you? What, or who, connects you to home? Reflect on what it means for Jews from all over the world to have a “home” in Israel. Analyze their connection to Israel through the lenses of am (people), eretz (land), and medina (state).
Objectives: Participants will . . . Identify effective strategies for achieving long-term goals, while recognizing common obstacles that may hinder progress. Understand the significance of enduring short-term challenges in pursuit of long-term goals that resonate with their core values. Reflect on their own “why” and “how”, relevant in their…
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Develop and apply strategies for discerning bias and misinformation in the media.
Employ skills learned to examine real world media
Learn historical and modern examples of misinformation about Jews
Objectives: Participants will . . . Explore a definition of power. Consider hierarchies of power and how they operate in their lives. Differentiate between individual and collective power and consider how to wield each of these powers in the future.
Objectives: Participants will . . . Practice how to set boundaries and communicate their needs. Understand why setting physical, emotional, material, and time boundaries is important to their well-being. Identify the importance of boundaries in Judaism.
Objectives: Participants will . . . Establish guidelines for themselves to make the space a place for honest conversation; Feel more connected and comfortable with the rest of the group; Describe what to expect from these curricular sessions; Describe more than one aspect of their identities
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Examine components of teshuvah and discuss how they might apply in parent-child relationships.
Learn an ancient Beit Hillel-Beit Shammai debate about teshuvah and practice mining a traditional text for modern values.
Share with one another how the texts they learned connected to their own lives, setting a foundation for future dialogues about mistakes, regret, and forgiveness.
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Encounter different ways of relating to God or a higher power as Jews and create a self-portrait of their current understanding of God at the start of the B-Mitzvah journey.
Explore how language and metaphors used to describe God can affect their understanding of God or a Higher Power.
Encounter different interpretations of God’s nature from Torah, Jewish philosophy, and modern Jewish writers.
