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Jewish Mutual Responsibility
In this lesson students will learn about the concept of Jewish mutual responsibility.
June 11, 2018
Interview a Refusenik or Activist
Telling a personal story can often bridge the gap between generations and differing experiences. In this lesson, students connect with a former Refusenik or Soviet Jewry Activist to understand what issues people faced and what motivated people to stand up against injustice.
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Jewish Identity and Religion in the Soviet Union
In this lesson, students learn of the destruction of Jewish identity and religion in the Soviet Union from its rise until WWII.
June 10, 2018
Letter Writing Activity
Students will write a letter to a former refusenik or activist. This lesson is a culminating activity at the end of a unit, quarter, or semester. Students will have the opportunity to reflect and articulate on who inspired them personally, and ideals or actions they will incorporate into their own lives.
June 7, 2018
Make Your Own Haggadah
One of the tenets of celebrating Passover is to pass the story from generation to generation and to internalize it as one’s own. This may seem hard to imagine, but recent Jewish history witnessed such an event: hundreds of thousands of Jews from the former Soviet Union left an oppressive regime with open support of the government after fighting for this right for years.
In this lesson, students will use texts to analyze different elements of the story and cultural cues to envision themselves as if “they themselves came out of Egypt.”
June 5, 2018
The Origins of the Soviet Jewish Community
In this lesson, students will learn about the origins of the Soviet Jewish community leading up to the Revolutions of 1917 and will learn about the roots of soviet anti-Semitism.
The Power of the Individual
In this lesson, students will learn about the figure of Avital Sharansky and will compare her story to the events of the Purim story.
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