Via web-based live audio, video and data networks, teachers will learn from professionals, share curriculum and resources, and collaborate on projects. The Holocaust Teacher Resource Center web site focuses on presenting Holocaust lesson plans and related materials that educators can download and use for free with their students. The web site includes unique video clips of Holocaust survivors and of a person who was a rescuer as teenager in Amsterdam. The Dawn Schuman Institute of the Community Foundation for Jewish Education of Metropolitan Chicago. See our online catalog for Jewish study tours, classes, programs, events, speakers or other ways to enrich your Jewish life or enhance the educational program of your Jewish organization.
Site also features Ask the Teacher and a community adult Jewish education calendar.
In an effort to counter the confusion and isolation often experienced by a novice synagogue-goer, as well as by many who regularly attend synagogue, The Synagogue Survival Kit offers introductions and instructions for all aspects of the synagogue experience. For the sophisticated adult reader with little or no Jewish background. Be a part of this growing site, featuring history, interactive games, and actual examples of study. You can even buy for yourself or another an actual share of the new standard edition of the Talmud. Rabbi Berel Wein on Jewish History Rabbi Berel Wein - historian, Jerusalem Post columnist, shares provocative thoughts on Israel.