Section archive - Learning Resources

This is a free resource which Areyvut has developed to help celebrants, families and educators craft meaningful and personalized Mitzvah Projects. We encourage you to use this resource and to share it with family, friends and colleagues. In the following pages, you will find a guide created to help make your Bnai Mitzvah experience as meaningful as possible. It will demonstrate how to find meaning in your project before, during and after your service and/or party. It will give you some specific project ideas, as well as guidelines to help you reflect on your experience. Following the steps in this guide will lead to a truly meaningful Mitzvah Project.

Learning over the summer has never been easier! Take your learning wherever your summer takes you with Project Zug, the online havruta learning platform powered by Hadar. Project Zug connects individuals through curated one-on-one high quality Jewish learning. Let Project Zug match you with a learning partner, or sign up with a friend. The learning platform is for all ages, and allows you to learn from the comfort of your own home – whenever you want!

Yad Vashem invites you to participate in a brand new six-part Massive Open Online Course (MOOC), “Antisemitism: From Its Origins to the Present”, available on the FutureLearn platform. Join more than 5000 learners from around the world as you explore the topic with 50 leading scholars to examine questions and issues relating to antisemitism.

A few years ago, in conversation with The Covenant Foundation about ways to engage the Jewish community in teaching and learning about migration, I suggested that the Bintel Brief, a newspaper column that used to run in the Jewish Daily Forward, might serve as an untapped resource. These letters from the Forward record the ordinary stories and dilemmas of newcomers making their way in a new land. While many of the details are grounded in the context of Jewish immigration in early 20th century New York, the letters raise universal questions about integration, assimilation, and acculturation, themes as timely now as they were when they were written. Teachers, students, all of us, needed to read the Bintel Brief to understand our past, present, and future better. The Covenant Foundation agreed. A little less than a year later Re-Imagining Migration produced Immigration and Identity: Jewish Immigrants and the Bintel Brief.