Suggested Kulam Tracks

Here are possible ideas about how to create an arc of learning based on your community’s interests and needs. These are sessions that already exist in the Kulam curricular outline grouped by theme. 

Social Action

  1. What’s Your Purpose?
  2. Understanding Implicit Bias
  3. From Noah to Now – Finding Resilience in an Era of Climate Change
  4. Exploring the Many Genders of Judaism and Around the World
  5. Limits of Ability
  6. Gun Violence (coming soon)
  7. Sexism (coming soon)
  8. Antisemitism
  9. I’ve Got the Power 
  10. Disagreement for the Sake of Heaven
  11. Dreaming Better Futures 

Jewish Leadership

  1. A Listening Heart
  2. What’s Your Purpose?
  3. Conflict Resolution
  4. Risk Taking & Courage
  5. X Marks the Spot: Navigating Towards Long-Term Goals
  6. Jewish Identity
  7. Jewish Peoplehood
  8. I’ve Got the Power

Healthy Relationships

  1. A Listening Heart
  2. Who Do You Think You Are?
  3. Friendship: I’ll Be There for You!
  4. When Friendship Isn’t Forever
  5. Reinventing Family
  6. Conflict Resolution
  7. Boundaries
  8. Consent & Communication
  9. Disagreement for the Sake of Heaven
  10. Desire: Do You Know What You Want?
  11. Anything You Can Do I Can Do Better
  12. Me, Myself and I: How to Be Alone

Shalom Inside: Emotional Wellbeing for Teens

  1. A Listening Heart
  2. Stressed Out, Tune In
  3. Happy Self, Happy Brain
  4. Self Care Does a Body Good
  5. The Pressure to be Perfect
  6. FOMO & Facetime & Filters: Oh My
  7. Anything You Can Do I Can Do Better
  8. Some BODY to Love

Jewish Identity & Israel

  1. Jewish Identity
  2. Peoplehood
  3. Home/Land 1
  4. Home/Land 2
  5. History of Zionism
  6. Diversity of People in Israel
  7. Palestinian Perspectives
  8. The Matzav: Understanding Key Elements of the Conflict
  9. Media Bias: Israel Edition
  10. Strategies for Engagement
  11. Antisemitism
  12. Yahrzeit: Two Years After October 7 (coming soon)

Kulam for Middle School

  1. A Listening Heart
  2. Jewish Identity
  3. Self Care Does a Body Good
  4. Who Do You Think You Are?
  5. Friendship: I’ll Be There for You!
  6. FOMO & Facetime & Filters: Oh My
  7. Jewish Peoplehood
  8. Antisemitism

Going to College

  1. Who Do You Think You Are?
  2. What’s Your Purpose?
  3. X Marks the Spot: Navigating Towards Long-Term Goals
  4. Risk Taking & Courage
  5. Conflict Resolution
  6. Boundaries
  7. Antisemitism
  8. Media: Can You Believe It?
  9. Dreaming Better Futures
  10. I’ve Got the Power