Section archive - Learning Resources

Do your students already know how to light the candles? Do they already know about the Maccabees? Here is a list of 49+ fun and creative activities to make Chanukah/Hanukkah come alive in the classroom. The activities were submitted to the Lookstein Center website by classroom teachers from all around. Some are appropriate for elementary school students, while others are better for middle and high school.

The Kishuran Hebrew Learning Materials Database, sponsored by the Professional Advancement Fund of the Israel Teachers Union, is now the most comprehensive and high quality educational database in Israel. As of September, 2010, the database's staff had succeeded in including over 53,000 information items in the database. In comparison, other Israeli educational databases contain only about 4000 items.

16 mm Postcards, on view at Yeshiva University Museum August 2010 – January 2011, brings to life the landscape and people in Poland through the amateur movies of immigrant American Jews who traveled “back home” to visit their families, friends, and former communities in the 1920s and 1930s. Intended to be viewed by family and fellow landsmen (friends from the Old Country), these films offer a rare, intimate and—quite literally—moving picture of Jewish families, towns and society in pre-World War II Poland. This exhibition was developed in collaboration with the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research, and in cooperation with the Center for Jewish History.

A new online study resource is being developed by Jeffery Spitzer, Chair of Rabbinic Literature at Gann Academy, an annotated listing of over 200 websites useful for students and teachers of Judaic studies. The resources are listed in over ten categories and levels of Jewish knowledge from novice to advanced.