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Kaplan Center Kaplanian Report Card
This evaluation tool provides a rubric for assessing the contemporary state of Jewish education.
This resource is part of a package of educational resources on Jewish peoplehood kindly provided by the Kaplan Center for Jewish Peoplehood.
Posted on: 2016/11/30 - 1:17pm
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Child's Biography of Mordecai Kaplan
This short biography of Mordecai Kaplan is written for children from 5th to 9th grade. It also has proved useful for adult education classes for a brief review of Kaplan’s life before delving into other topics of Kaplanian or Reconstructionist thought. It is accompanied by study questions that might guide your exploration of the meaning of the value of Kaplan’s life and work after having read the story.
https://archive.reconstructingjudaism.org/document/childs-biography-mordecai-kaplan
Posted on: 2016/11/30 - 1:25pm
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Teen Exercise: Exploration of God Beliefs
This pilot program for Jewish teen education provides several activities for exploring and sharing beliefs about God. Originally written in anticipation of the 2016-2017 school year, this experimental program can be used in a variety of settings and times of year.
This resource is part of a package of educational resources on Jewish peoplehood kindly provided by the Kaplan Center for Jewish Peoplehood.
https://archive.reconstructingjudaism.org/document/exploration-god-beliefs-teen-program
Posted on: 2016/11/30 - 1:29pm
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Kaplan Center resource: Life of Reconstructionist Educators in Digital Age
This short article reflects on the challenges and opportunities presented by digital technology in Reconstructionist education. The article is attached as a PDF and reproduced below as well. (The PDF contains a printable chart that is not included in the text on this page.)
This resource is part of a package of educational resources on Jewish peoplehood kindly provided by the Kaplan Center for Jewish Peoplehood.
https://archive.reconstructingjudaism.org/document/life-reconstructionist-educators-digital-age
Posted on: 2016/11/30 - 1:43pm
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Ruth, the First Convert (DT Shavuot)
We soon celebrate Shavuot, called in our tradition “zman matan Torataynu,” the season of the giving of our Torah. It is a pleasant coincidence that the Torah reading for the Shabbat immediately preceding Shavuot is usually ”BaMidbar” (“In the wilderness”). Rabbinic tradition asserts that the Torah was given in the wilderness to demonstrate that it was not the property of a landed tribe but rather was available to anyone who chose to claim it as theirs.
https://archive.reconstructingjudaism.org/article/ruth-first-convert-model-welcome
Posted on: 2017/01/31 - 2:42pm
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Educating Future Jews: Jewish-Americans or American Jews?
Should children receiving conflicting, non-Jewish, religious education be allowed to enroll in a synagogue school?
Posted on: 2017/03/29 - 10:34am
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A Stranger in Two Communities
Perhaps, for some people, the decision to convert to Judaism comes in a Road-to-Damascus moment (to mix religious metaphors)—all of a sudden, you know that you want to be a Jew. That was not what happened in my life.
Posted on: 2017/08/18 - 12:23pm
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Embracing the Stranger - Justice and Wider World
Embracing the stranger is not just an individual journey—it’s a communal calling. We are commanded as Jews to “Love the stranger, for you were strangers in the land of Egypt.” (Deuteronomy 10:19) In the face of fear, hostility, or simple disregard toward those who are different, our challenge is to lift up our common humanity, and our inherent dignity and worth as beings b’tzelem Elohim, reflecting the divine image.
Click here to return to the main “Embracing the Stranger” page)
https://archive.reconstructingjudaism.org/collection/wider-world
Posted on: 2017/08/18 - 12:46pm
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Further Resources - Embracing Stranger - Internal
We’d like to offer these further pieces from Ritualwell.org and ReconstructingJudaism.org on the internal work that individual Jews and their communities can do to welcome those who feel estranged.
https://archive.reconstructingjudaism.org/article/further-resources-within
Posted on: 2017/08/18 - 1:01pm
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Embracing the Stranger - Internal
Embracing the stranger is an endeavor that requires not just outward action, but internal effort on many levels. Both as individuals and communities, real inclusion involves rethinking of boundaries.
Click here to return to the main “Embracing the Stranger” page)
https://archive.reconstructingjudaism.org/collection/looking-within
Posted on: 2017/08/18 - 1:06pm
