Yom Yerushalayim through the five senses

Age group: 4-5

Some things are just tried and true! For instance, more than 300 years ago, the educator John Amos Comenius said, “Those things, therefore, that are placed before the intelligence of the young, must be real things and not the shadow of things….real and useful things that can make an impression on the senses and on the imagination.” And so we present a tour of Jerusalem for our youngest learners through the five senses; sight, sound, taste, smell, and touch.

For love, Rabbi Akiva - Insights into his life and work

Age group: 12-16

Participants:

One group of up to 30 people.
Several groups belonging to the same institution.

This is an activity to explore in depth the life and work of Rabbi Akiva, in connection with the Lag BaOmer holiday.
For the project wrap-up, we present several options for a final product to be made in the group, as well as an activity in which the children and their parents work together.

We don’t just go to Jerusalem, we return

Age group: 10-14

Participants: up to 30.

This interdisciplinary project is about “coming back to Jerusalem” by means of sources of Jewish thought, as well as literature and fine arts.

Lag Baomer: Much More Than a Number

Age group: 8-15

The program begins with an activity dealing with the Jewish calendar between Pesach and Shavuot and the analysis of the meaning of the counting of the omer, followed by another activity relating to the numerical value of the letters of the Hebrew alphabet (gematria). Then the values that guided the Jews in the generation of Akiva and Bar Kochba are analyzed and illustrated with two cooperative games, and finally the historical events and Jewish leaders remembered on Lag B’Omer are reviewed.

The Big Ten – Inside and Out: An Exploration of the 10 Commandments for Shavuot

Age group: 11-14

Participants: Up to 40

Shavuot provides a wonderful opportunity for study sessions. This project proposes the rediscovery of the Ten Commandments through multiple activities based on the different perceptions and spectrums from which they can be studied. The project also incites the learner to explore nuances in the relationship between the one who Commands and the one who is Commanded, and apply the themes of the Commandments to modern life. The participants will approach the subject by exploring their own ability to define classification categories and creatively write parodies based on the Decalogue.

Education in values. A Shavuot project.

Age group: 12-18

Planning a project on education and values means talking about how to accentuate the positive attitudes of our students. Education today is in general extremely concerned with how to make the educational environment not just a space for improving technical skills, but an environment for learning to be better human beings. Why begin a program of education in values with the celebration of Shavuot? To begin a program of Education in Values with Shavuot is to begin by dealing with the primary source of Western culture, the source that laid the foundations for the system of values that today serves as the standard for living in society. The majority of legal codes in the Western world are based directly or indirectly on the Bible and in particular on the Decalogue. In it are values such as freedom, equality before the law, the right to study, the reason for the day of rest, and, of course, the value of monotheism vis-à-vis idolatry. In this way the individual no longer feels at the mercy of the forces of nature, but comes to feel part of a world in which s/he is responsible for what takes place.