What's This Box? Optional Jewish Enrichment: Formerly called PeopleHood Frame: When in Jewish history have we asked questions about listening this topic? Who has asked these questions? What were the circumstances that caused them to ask these questions?
Updated 2024. Facilitator Note: A parallel session addressing media bias regarding Israel is available here for Jewish Identity & Israel pilot partners. Objectives: By the end of the session, participants will be able to: Develop and apply strategies for discerning bias and misinformation in the media. Employ skills learned to examine real world media; Learn…
Updated 2024. Objectives: By the end of the session, participants will be able to: Fluently use the skills of “Disagreements for the Sake of Heaven.” Engage in dialogue with others whose beliefs differ from their own. Develop a plan for talking with members of their community about a topic of personal importance.
Updated 2024. Objectives: By the end of the session participants will be able to: Explore their own personal definition of “happiness”, comparing it with modern researchers’ views on happiness and traditional Jewish wisdom. Learn one framework for happiness based on positive psychology (Martin Seligman’s PERMA+). Practice concrete strategies to promote mental wellbeing.
Objectives: By the end of the session, participants will be able to: Understand that people have a diverse range of abilities and limitations, and recognize degrees of ability and limitation within themselves. Fully welcome and include people with disabilities in their communities, families, and friendships. Recognize the advocacy that has been done, and is still…
Objectives: By the end of the session, participants will be able to. Reflect on the past year including what they’ve learned and how they’ve changed; Consider the challenges they have faced over the past year individually and as a group; Explore the concept of liminal spaces using the Israelites as an example
Updated 2025. Note: This session deals with the challenging topic of implicit bias. It is highly recommended that you use this session only if you review the material and feel comfortable with your ability to teach it. If you find that you are not comfortable with the material, we ask that you be in touch…
In this session, participants will learn about the history of Bat Mitzvah, understand that Judaism is open to gender critique and is continually transformed by it, and explore the importance of making rituals more inclusive and relevant.
A Note on Facilitation: This session not only addresses potentially difficult topics but also might be longer than you have time to implement. Ideally, this session would be split into two meetings, though we recognize that this may not be possible for you.-- If you are doing this as one session, we suggest that you…
Updated 2024. Objectives: By the end of the session, participants will be able to: Explore the personal experiences and emotions connected to antisemitism. Describe what antisemitism is and how it manifests in the wider world along with the Jewish world. Reflect about their role in responding to anti-Jewish hatred.
