Areas of Focus:

Ethic: Creativity and Resistance

Holidays: Shabbat, Yom Kippur, Lag B’Omer

Life Cycle: The Jewish Bar/Bat Mitzvah

Jewish Heroes: Spinoza, Einstein, Henrietta Szold, Emma Lazurus, Spielberg

Project: Klal Yisrael: The Spinoza Trial: A Drama of Courage and Resistance; Coming to America: You Are Invited to Ellis Island

Jewish Literature: The Writings of Contemporary Jewish Heroes
*Sephardic and Ashkenazic Jewry
*Life in The Ghetto
*Coming to America
*Exodus to Palestine
*Great Heroes of Modern Times

Units:

1. The Ghetto: The Reality of Being Jewish

2. Baruch Spinoza: A Hero for Humanistic Jews

3.The Czars: Persecution and Pograms

4. Coming to America: A Better Life in A Far Away Land

5. Kristallnacht: The Long Night of Broken Glass

6. Where Do the Jews Go?

7. The British White Paper and The Challenge of Jewish Immigration

8.Exodus: A Ship Filled with Determination

9. Modern Day Heroes

10. America Honors Outstanding Jewish Personalities