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Teen "TEL" Curriculum: Derekh Eretz
The TEL (Teens: Experience and Learning) post-b’nai mitzvah program focuses on the values of spiritual peoplehood that form the cornerstones of Reconstructionist Jewish education. Each curriculum focuses on a different value. Derekh Eretz is a Hebrew expression broadly meaning “treatment of others.”
https://archive.reconstructingjudaism.org/document/teen-tel-curriculum-derekh-eretz
Posted on: 2016/04/21 - 1:57pm
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Teen "TEL" Curriculum: Tikkun Olam
The TEL (Teens: Experience and Learning) post-b’nai mitzvah program focuses on the values of spiritual peoplehood that form the cornerstones of Reconstructionist Jewish education. Each curriculum focuses on a different value. Tikkun Olam is a Hebrew expression broadly meaning “reparing the world.”
https://archive.reconstructingjudaism.org/document/teen-tel-curriculum-tikkun-olam
Posted on: 2016/04/21 - 2:02pm
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Teen "TEL" Curriculum: Hiddur Mitzvah
The TEL (Teens: Experience and Learning) post-b’nai mitzvah program focuses on the values of spiritual peoplehood that form the cornerstones of Reconstructionist Jewish education. Each curriculum focuses on a different value. Hiddur Mitzvah is a Hebrew expression meaning “beautification of a mitzvah,” which we here interpret as creativity in its broadest sense.
The curricular units are:
https://archive.reconstructingjudaism.org/document/teen-tel-curriculum-hiddur-mitzvah
Posted on: 2016/04/21 - 2:25pm
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Classroom Management and Lesson Planning
This manual provides practical suggestions and tools for lesson planning and classroom management. It includes excellent resources for bringing a “multiple intelligences ” awareness into classrooms. Developed for use in the Sh'lom Kitah Program of the Board of Jewish Education of Greater Washington in 2002-03. Contents include:
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I Introductions
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II Meyerson’s List of False Assumptions*
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Transitional difficulties
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Content
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Relationships
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https://archive.reconstructingjudaism.org/document/classroom-management-and-lesson-planning
Posted on: 2016/04/25 - 2:33pm
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Herzl Play, Monologue and Activities (Grades 4-7)
Theodor Herzl: A Zionist Pioneer: A Monologue, Scene, and Activities designed by Gabrielle S. Kaplan
Commissioned by the Jewish Reconstructionist Federation of Metropolitan New York’s Israel Education Project
The play and activities have been designed for use with students in fourth through seventh grades.
https://archive.reconstructingjudaism.org/document/herzl-play-monologue-and-activities-grades-4-7
Posted on: 2016/04/25 - 4:28pm
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Introduction to Midrash (5th Grade and Up)
This lesson about the Garden of Eden encourages students to generate their own midrash. It models an approach that can be applied to other Torah texts. It was written by Rabbi Shai Gluskin from the Reconstructionist movement and Deena Salmon of B'nai Keshet in Montclair, NJ.
https://archive.reconstructingjudaism.org/document/introduction-midrash-5th-grade-and
Posted on: 2016/04/25 - 4:34pm
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Zionism and Communal Covenant
In 2004, the JRF Israel Policies Task Force issued a report calling for a recommitment to Zionism. This excerpt from that report explores Kaplan's definition of “New Zionism.” It also discusses how a communal covenant could strengthen the relationships among the Reconstructionist community, Israel and the broader Jewish community.
Posted on: 2016/05/05 - 2:47pm
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Mishnah Impossible
This is a hands-on, team activity for the week before Sukkot that allows students to build sukkot according to instructions given in the Mishnah.
https://archive.reconstructingjudaism.org/document/mishnah-impossible
Posted on: 2016/05/05 - 5:28pm
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What's God Have to Do With It?
A High Holiday Sermon delivered by by Rabbi Sid Schwarz at Adat Shalom Reconstructionist Congregation, Bethesda, MD
Yom Kippur 2007Some of you will remember the old Art Linkletter show. His signature piece on the show was his interviews with children which he later compiled in a book called Kids Say the Darndest Things. I thought of this when I recently picked up a book entitled, Children’s Letters to God. Here are a few excerpts:
“Dear God:
https://archive.reconstructingjudaism.org/sermon/whats-god-have-do-it
Posted on: 2016/05/06 - 10:32am
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Being Part of the Universe
Let us begin by remembering that the spiritual always points toward the unity of things, not their division. Judaism tries to help us to work from a higher perspective. To celebrate the creation of the world, as we do on Rosh Hashanah, is to see ourselves as an integral part of all that is and not to see ourselves as the measure of all things. The egotistical, self-centered part of our mind, “the evil urge” if you will, always leads us to experience our separateness from the natural world.
https://archive.reconstructingjudaism.org/sermon/being-part-universe
Posted on: 2016/05/06 - 12:54pm
