Section archive - Learning Resources

ChallahCrumbs.com is a family oriented website with a constantly growing collection of Jewish educational activities for parents and children. The site features special recipes based on the weekly Torah reading but also offers regular recipes, reviews of children's books, videos on how to do Jewish-theme crafts projects, and a weekly five-minute podcast on the weekly Torah reading. Devorah Katz and Shefa Weinstein, who established the site and run it, are aiming to create a virtual Jewish community. Their many visitors come mostly from North America and Israel. But there are also many followers from China, Germany and other distant places.

Makom in collaboration with Jewish Education Project and The Jewish Community Relations Council of New York, Inc. (JCRC-NY), have created a program for making the New York City Salute to Israel Parade a more meaningful experience for participants. In addition to offering educational workshops and film evenings, they have created a website containing written materials, downloadable sheets, programming ideas, songs and video clips dealing with various aspects of Israel.

Touro College in conjunction with the family of David Tidhar has made this classic reference work freely available to the public in a searchable online version in its original Hebrew. The monumental 19-volume Encyclopedia of the Founders and Builders of Israel was compiled and published by David Tidhar (1897-1970) over the 23 years from 1947 until his death. In addition to original articles about political activists and other of his contemporaries, the first several volumes also contain material about 19th century settlers culled from local histories published in the preceding two decades. In each volume, Tidhar requested submission of biographical information and photographs from relatives of early settlers, which he used to compile some 6,000 biographies. His work represents the only biographical source for many of those included.

BabagaNewz recently made available this engaging six part lesson plan written by Robyn Faintich to help Jewish school teachers help their students to learn about tzedakah, gmilut chesed, and Jewish giving experientially, using the internet as a resource and a platform for doing. Based on the principals of Service Learning, the unit aims to achieve the following goals: students will learn about the concept of social justice, the Jewish values it expresses, and how to use the internet to implement social justice work.