Areas of Focus:

Ethic: Generosity

Holidays: Shabbat, Passover, Shavuot

Life Cycle: A Jewish Wedding

Jewish Heroes: Elijah, Maimonides

Project: Tsedaka (Charitable Giving); Hachnasat Orechi

Jewish Literature: Rebecca at the Well (Kindness and Sharing); The Stories of Shalom Aleichem and Peretz (Humor and Shtetl Life)

Units:

1. Who is Our Community? What Makes a Community? What is a Righteous Community?

2. Tzedaka: A Day for Generosity

3.Rebecca: The Generous Heart

4. Shabbat: A Weekly Opportunity to be Generous

5. Maimonides: A Ladder for Living

6.The Shtetl Community

7. Yiddish Culture: For Bubbes, Zaddes, and You

8.A Shtetl Wedding: Time to Celebrate Life with your Community

9. Passover: A Table for Many

10.Hachnasat Orechim: Let’s Host a Fiddler On The Roof Sing-A-Long